016: Chef Alice Waters

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Alice Waters is a food icon. She is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. Waters has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. It is easy to see why there are hundreds of chefs across the country that look up to Alice Waters.

 

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