Edible Schoolyard

Alice Waters

Chronicle Books, Dec 17, 2008 - Cooking - 79 pages

One of America's most influential chefs, Alice Waters created a revolution in 1971 when she introduced local, organic fare at her Berkeley, California, restaurant, Chez Panisse. Twenty-five years later, she and a small group of teachers and volunteers turned over long-abandoned soil at an urban middle school in Berkeley and planted the Edible Schoolyard. The schoolyard has since grown into a universal idea of Edible Education that integrates academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchenand their young caretakersEdible Schoolyard is at once a visionary model for sustainable farming and childhood nutrition, and a call to action for schools across the country.

About the author

Chef and restauranteur Alice Waters was born April 28,1944, in Chatham, New Jersey. She attended University of California at Berkeley where she earned a degree in French Cultural Studies. She has been the owner of the Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California for almost three decades. She is the author of The Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, and Chez Panisse Vegetables. She also wrote a memoir entitled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. Waters collaborated with others chefs and a cardiologist to produce Heart-Healthy Cooking for All Seasons. Her awards include the Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant and Business Leadership Award, Restaurants & Institutions Magazine and the James Beard Humanitarian Award. She was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and was listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world by Cuisine et Vins de France.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Edible Schoolyard
• Author: Alice Waters
• Photographs by: David Liittschwager
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2008
• ISBN: 0811862801, 9780811862806
• Length: 79 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / General; Cooking / History; Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary; Education / Teaching / Subjects / Health & Sexuality; Gardening / Fruit; Gardening / General; Gardening / Organic; Medical / Nutrition