Alice Waters is a chef, writer, environmental activist who was born on April 28, 1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She is the founder of the Chez Panisse Foundation and restaurant known for its organic, local grown ingredients. With that, she also started the Edible Schoolyard Program along with the School Lunch Initiative program at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, CA. During her time in Berkeley, Waters was part of the Free Speech Movement as an activist that took place 1964-1965. She went to study abroad in France, where she lived by a market where she would shop local produce and cook to get better in the kitchen. She then graduated from UC Berkeley after she transferred from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in French Cultural Studies in the year of 1967. She moved to London and she attended Montessori School in where she got trained as a chef. …show more content…
She uses a seasonal menu in where her menu is different everyday where she could help local farms and the community. Waters, then got ranked in a restaurant magazine as one of best top 50 worldwide in 2007. Her restaurant is made up of three to four course meals. Then in 1980, Waters opened a Café upstairs where her restaurant is located being more modern and its open for lunch and dinner. In 1983, Alice waters got pregnant with her daughter Fanny Singer and had to hire another chef to cook in her kitchen in Chez Panisse. However, the same way she ran her kitchen that chef did the same. Therefore, not only being a chef and an activist, waters wrote her first book in 1982 and has written over ten cookbooks that include recipes, tips, and lessons. While I’ve been checking her books out they all seem to improve and from her recipes also the different ways she would make foods. Her newest book is My Pantry published in April of