Chez Panisse and its founder, Alice Waters, helped forge a new path for — and awareness of — what seasonal cooking can be, thanks to her dedication to local farmers and organic agriculture. She ...

On Aug. 28, 1971, a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher named Alice Waters opened a restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Waters had studied abroad in France six years earlier and, back home, ...

Go back in time with us to 1971, the year that changed the way we eat forever. “The most important thing to me is that we were able to create something that was greater than the sum of its parts,” ...

In her new book, “Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook” (Clarkson Potter, September 5th), the chef Alice Waters traces her path from suburban New Jersey, where she spent her ...

Chez Panisse has for four decades quietly spurred a food revolution. Where there is food, there is wine. And so Alice Waters' restaurant has grown up alongside the maturing of America's wine tastes.