- Born
- Alice Waters was born on April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer, known for Soul of a Banquet (2014), Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980) and Dirt! The Movie (2009).
- SpouseStephen Singer (divorced, 1 child)
- She is an influential chef who attracted national attention for promoting food education in schools and for being a leading advocate of a stimulus package that works to give a healthy breakfast and lunch for every child in the public school system.
- Famed American chef; founder and co-owner of Chez Panisse, the original "California cuisine" restaurant in Berkeley, California.
- Credited with inventing "California cuisine," including individual-sized pizzas, mixed-green salads, and cooking with local organic produce.
- Bachelors degree in French Cultural Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, 1967. Was inspired to become an organic chef after living in France in the 1960s.
- Gourmet magazine named Chez Panisse the Best Restaurant in America in 2001. Waters was listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world in 1986 by Cuisine et Vins de France; named the Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992; and awarded Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
- When I was invited to New York to receive an award, out of 25 chefs I was the only woman. We each presented a dish. All the men had fancy French dishes. I had brought a salad. I will never forget how self-conscious I was. I keep saying, "I borrowed the bowl from James Beard. I made the vinaigrette." It was excruciating to think I had been so naive. And yet when they reviewed the dishes, all they talked about was the salad.
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