Alice Waters

Alice Waters, chef, author, food activist and owner of Chez Panisse, has been a champion of local, sustainable agriculture for over four decades. She is the founder of The Edible Schoolyard Project, an innovative model for public education that integrates the growing and cooking of food into the core academic curriculum. The centerpiece of its mission is to promote a free, nutritious and sustainable school lunch for all students, and to bring children into a new relationship to food. Alice is also the author of fourteen books, including New York Times bestsellers The Art of Simple Food I & II and The Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea.