Eating, an environmental act - Alice Waters

Alice Waters - "Eating is an
environmental act."

Alice Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author.

She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.

Waters, who opened the restaurant in 1971, has been cited as one of the most influential figures in food in the past 50 years, and has been called the mother of American food.

She is currently one of the most visible supporters of the organic food movement, and has been a proponent of organics for over 40 years.

Waters believes that eating organic foods, free from herbicides and pesticides, is essential for both taste and the health of the environment and local communities.

She said: “Eating is an environmental act.”