Alice Waters

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Alice Waters

Acting 82 April 28, 1944

Chatham, New Jersey, USA

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 movem…

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The View

The View

4.3 1997 TV Show
Real Time with Bill Maher

Real Time with Bill Maher

6.0 2003 TV Show
Somebody Feed Phil

Somebody Feed Phil

7.2 2018 TV Show
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

7.0 1980 Movie
With Love, Meghan

With Love, Meghan

3.5 2025 TV Show
Iconoclasts

Iconoclasts

7.5 2005 TV Show
In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

7.7 1995 TV Show
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

7.5 1980 Movie
Chef's Table: Legends

Chef's Table: Legends

7.8 2025 TV Show
Dirt! The Movie

Dirt! The Movie

6.9 2009 Movie
Food and Country

Food and Country

4.0 2024 Movie
Food Fight

Food Fight

8.0 2008 Movie

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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.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2025
    Chef's Table: Legends

    TV show Self

  2. 2025
    With Love, Meghan

    TV show Self

  3. 2024
    Food and Country

    Movie Self

  4. 2024
    We Are What We Eat

    Movie Self

  5. 2021
    Alice Waters: How To Start A Food Revolution

    Movie Self

  6. 2020
    Waging Change

    Movie Self

  7. 2019
    Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    Movie Herself

  8. 2019
    Robert Scheer: Above the Fold

    Movie Self

  9. 2018
    Somebody Feed Phil

    TV show Self

  10. 2017
    James Beard: America's First Foodie

    Movie Herself

  11. 2009
    Dirt! The Movie

    Movie Self

  12. 2008
    Food Fight

    Movie Self

  13. 2007
    Two Angry Moms

    Movie

  14. 2005
    Iconoclasts

    TV show Self

  15. 2003
    Alice Waters and Her Delicious Revolution

    Movie Self

  16. 2003
    Real Time with Bill Maher

    TV show Self

More credits
  1. 2000
    Julia Child's Kitchen Wisdom

    Movie

  2. 1997
    The View

    TV show Self

  3. 1997
    Pure & Simple: An Introduction to the Joys of Canning

    Movie Self

  4. 1995
    In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

    TV show Self

  5. 1980
    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    Movie Assistant Cook

  6. 1980
    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

    Movie Self - Chez Panisse Restaurant, Berkeley