Alice Waters
Born: 1944-04-28 in Chatham, New Jersey, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California, restaurant famous for creating the farm-to-table movement and for pioneering California cuisine, which she opened in 1971. Waters has authored and co-authored many books, including "Chez Panisse Cooking" (with Paul Bertolli), "Chez Panisse Vegetables", "Chez Panisse Fruit", "The Art of Simple Food I and II", "In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart", "40 Years of Chez Panisse", and her memoir, "Coming to my Senses: The Making of a Cook". Waters created the Chez Panisse Foundation in 1996, and the Edible Schoolyard program at the Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley; a school garden initiative that today involves over 4,000 schools. She is a national public policy advocate for universal access to healthy, organic foods. Her influence in the fields of organic foods and nutrition inspired Michelle Obama's White House organic vegetable garden program. Since 2002, Waters has served as a vice president of Slow Food International, an organization dedicated to preserving local food traditions, protecting biodiversity, and promoting small-scale quality products around the world.
Filmography
2025
- With Love, Meghan as Self
- Chef's Table: Legends as Self
2024
- Food and Country as Self
- We Are What We Eat as Self
2021
2020
- Waging Change as Self
2019
- Robert Scheer: Above the Fold as Self
- Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy as Herself
2018
- Somebody Feed Phil as Self
2017
- James Beard: America's First Foodie as Herself
2009
- Dirt! The Movie as Self
2008
- Food Fight as Self
2007
2005
- Iconoclasts as Self
2003
- Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution as Self
1997
- The View as Self
- Pure & Simple: An Introduction to the Joys of Canning as Self
1995
1988
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe as Assistant Cook
1980
- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers as Self - Chez Panisse Restaurant, Berkeley