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Alice Waters

Chef, restaurateur and food activist

United States · b. 1944

American chef who opened the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. She founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, has written more than a dozen books including We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, and is a vice-president of Slow Food International.

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Question What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job?

I decided that my attention would be in the dining room. I haven’t cooked in 28 years at Chez Panisse. ... I didn’t intend to be out of the kitchen. ... Now I’m in a different world and I contribute to the collaboration of the kitchen and I’m always working with a group of colleagues who inspire me, but I really miss being actually in the solving of the performance, that effort to really come up with dishes that are delicious and right.

Recorded Terry Gross, NPR, Fresh Air, NPR (Fresh Air), 22 August 2011 source ↗

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