Alice Waters is a chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse restaurant and a passionate advocate for a food economy that is “good, clean, and fair.” In 1996, she founded the Chez Panisse Foundation to support educational programs that use food to nurture, educate, and empower youth. She created the Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School, comprised of a one-acre garden, an adjacent kitchen-classroom, and an “eco-gastronomic” curriculum. She is also the author of In the Green Kitchen, The Art of Simple Food, and other popular cookbooks. She has appeared in Dirt! The Movie and Two Angry Moms, among other documentaries. Visit www.edibleschoolyard.org.
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