Alice Waters' Socially Conscious Chef Career Highlighted at ChefSchoolReview.com
Great chefs can come to their calling from any direction. ChefSchoolReview.com's latest Spotlight article features Alice Waters--owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif.--whose passions are healthy food and sustainable agriculture. ChefSchoolReview.com is a comprehensive online resource linking visitors to top cooking schools and articles.
(PRWEB) July 10, 2007 -- ChefSchoolReview.com's current Spotlight article describes the chef training and career path of Alice Waters, who built a passion for socially conscious food and agriculture into a distinguished career with far-reaching effects on society (http://chefschoolreview.com/blog/2007/06/chef_spotlight_alice_waters.html). ChefSchoolReview.com is a top online guide to culinary education that features links to top culinary arts schools and articles.
"There is a profound disconnection between the kind of human experience that our society values, and the way we actually live our lives," writes Waters on the Chez Panisse site. Chef training--and a business-savvy partner--helped Waters create a culinary empire: an award-winning restaurant, a powerful foundation, eight top culinary cookbooks and decades of international recognition. Gourmet magazine named Chez Panisse "Best Restaurant in America" in 2001.
Waters earned a Bachelor of Arts in French cultural studies from the University of California in the 1960s, trained at the Montessori School in London, and then traveled in France for a year. Chez Panisse, which specializes in California cuisine with French influences, opened in Berkeley in 1971.
"On the surface, Waters was not a likely candidate for restaurant ownership," says ChefSchoolReview.com. "She had little business training and knew nothing about running a commercial operation." What Waters did have was a knowledgeable business partner. Business training is critical to the survival and success of any restaurant. ChefSchoolReview.com links students to top cooking schools that, in addition to cooking courses, offer training in business, restaurant management, procurement of food and equipment, human resources management and restaurant design (http://www.chefschoolreview.com).
"Throughout her distinguished culinary arts career, Alice Waters has not only encouraged sensible eating for restaurant goers, but she has also worked closely with public school systems across the country to promote her 'edible education' to children suffering from obesity," says ChefSchoolReview.com. The Berkeley Daily Planet reported that in 2004, Waters, through the Chez Panisse Foundation, committed millions of dollars "to reinvent the school lunch at Berkeley Unified [school system and, she hopes, ultimately, across the country."
ChefSchoolReview.com is a comprehensive online guide to chef schools offering educational resources and degree programs in cooking and culinary arts. The site also features links to recipes from around the world, a culinary library tool, a chef spotlight feature, and a culinary school listing.
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