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2 unusual facts about Alice Waters


American Academy in Rome

She also brought on Alice Waters to create the Rome Sustainable Food Project, which brings chefs from the United States to explore Italian sustainable food traditions and cook for the Academy guests.

Mary-Alice Waters

She became the editor of their youth paper, Young Socialist, and the national secretary of the Young Socialist Alliance.


Jacky Robert

Alongside Alice Waters, Jeremiah Tower and Mark Miller, Robert was featured in the PBS series "The Great Chefs of San Francisco." Robert appeared in additional PBS broadcasts with Emmy award-winning chef Martin Yan.

Mildred Howard

In the late 1990s, Howard was selected by Alice Waters to serve as executive director of The Edible Schoolyard, Waters's garden at Martin Luther King Middle School in Berkeley, which offered middle school-aged youth hands-on education in the garden and the kitchen with a focus on sustainable agriculture.

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

The film features Herzog cooking his shoes (the ones he claims to have been wearing when he made the bet) at the Berkeley, California restaurant Chez Panisse, with the help of chef Alice Waters.


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