Alice Waters
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.
Acting
TV
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
TV
The View
as Self
1997
Movie
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
as Assistant Cook
1988
TV
Somebody Feed Phil
as Self
2018
Movie
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
as Self - Chez Panisse Restaurant, Berkeley
1980
TV
With Love, Meghan
as Self
2025
Movie
Dirt! The Movie
as Self
2009
TV
Chef's Table: Legends
as Self
2025
Movie
Food Fight
as Self
2008
TV
In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs
as Self
1995
TV
Iconoclasts
as Self
2005
Movie
Robert Scheer: Above the Fold
as Self
2019
Movie
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy
as Herself
2019
Movie
Waging Change
as Self
2020
Movie
Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution
as Self
2021
Movie
Food and Country
as Self
2024
Movie
James Beard: America's First Foodie
as Herself
2017
Movie
Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution
as Self
2003
Movie
We Are What We Eat
as Self
2024
Movie
Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom
2000
Movie
Pure & Simple: An Introduction to the Joys of Canning
as Self
1997
Movie
Two Angry Moms
2007