For over 25 years, SAVEUR has brought food stories and recipes from around the world into the kitchens of home cooks and culinary enthusiasts. Now, we’re launching our first-ever podcast: Place Settings. Follow along as we travel across the U.S. to meet the chefs, farmers, makers, and creatives who are transforming the food space through their unique connection to a place. Each week, our editors will chat with a food innovator whose personal journey is as compelling as what they’re putting on the plate.
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For over 25 years, SAVEUR has brought food stories and recipes from around the world into the kitchens of home cooks and culinary enthusiasts. Now, we’re launching our first-ever podcast: Place Settings. Follow along as we travel across the U.S. to meet the chefs, farmers, makers, and creatives who are transforming the food space through their unique connection to a place. Each week, our editors will chat with a food innovator whose personal journey is as compelling as what they’re putting on the plate.
Alice Waters On Feeding People an Idea and Victory-Meets-Guerilla Gardening in Berkeley, California
Place Settings by SAVEUR
37 minutes
2 years ago
Alice Waters On Feeding People an Idea and Victory-Meets-Guerilla Gardening in Berkeley, California
When she opened her restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, Alice Waters had no plans for pioneering California cuisine or launching the farm-to-table movement across the U.S. But following her passion for market-fresh, seasonal cooking—sparked by a trip to France as a student—led her to work directly with local organic farmers and spotlight the origins of each ingredient on her menu. Those ideals have since reshaped the entire American food landscape, from grocery stores to fine dining restaurants to even the public school system. In 1995, Waters founded the Edible Schoolyard Project in Berkeley, which now includes a network of thousands of schools around the world. Drawing on her training as a Montessori teacher, the non-profit empowers students to grow and cook their own food—and, in the process, addresses issues like climate change, social inequality, and public health. Waters has also been a vocal advocate for national school lunch reform, calling on presidents such as George W. Bush and Barack Obama to promote the benefits of healthy eating. Despite her massive impact and a career that spans more than half a century, the educator, chef, activist, and author has kept a fairly low profile. At 78, she continues to plant seeds of change and is even celebrating a few firsts.
If you want to support the Edible Schoolyard Project, head here (until December 31 an anonymous donor is matching all amounts). You can also learn more about Chez Panisse here.
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Place Settings by SAVEUR
For over 25 years, SAVEUR has brought food stories and recipes from around the world into the kitchens of home cooks and culinary enthusiasts. Now, we’re launching our first-ever podcast: Place Settings. Follow along as we travel across the U.S. to meet the chefs, farmers, makers, and creatives who are transforming the food space through their unique connection to a place. Each week, our editors will chat with a food innovator whose personal journey is as compelling as what they’re putting on the plate.
