Alice Louise Waters

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Alice Louise Waters was born on April 28, 1944 in Chatham, New Jersey. She took Bachelor of Arts degree in French Cultural Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She is one of the most famous American chefs, co –owner of Chez Panisse the original” California cuisine” restaurant in Blakeley, California, activist, and author. She has been married twice to French filmmaker (Jean-pierre Gorin )and to Stephen singer who was an importer of Italian olive oil and Chez Panisse’s wine buyer. And her daughter ‘Fanny’ was born in 1983. [1] Since Waters visited France in 1964, her interest in the possibilities of fresh local ingredients were impressed and inspired by a particular meal she had in Brittany. At that time, the chef, a woman, announced the menus. Those dishes were made by cured ham, melon, trout with almond, and raspberry tart. The most interesting part to her is that the trout came from the stream and the raspberries from the garden. That means those fresh ingredients were immediately made for healthy and special dishes. Her Chez Panisse Restaurant web page shows “all our produce meat poultry, and fish come from farms ranches, and fisheries guided by principles of sustainability”. [2, 3] Waters has been called the mother of American food and slow food during almost 40 years. Slow food was Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. She is one of the most remarkable supporters of the organic food movement over 40 years, and she also strongly insists that eating organic food which is free from herbicides and pesticides is important and essential for the health of people and taste. Waters opened the restaurant in 1971.That time a lot of chefs were still using frozen meat and
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