Even Anthony Bourdain, who once said that Alice Waters annoyed “the living s*@# out of [him],” has called her a visionary, and described her Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, as “inarguably a cradle of the food revolution.” She introduced a whole generation of Americans to the very notion of organic and locally sourced food, started the Edible Schoolyard and School Lunch Initiative programs to improve childhood nutrition, and launched the Chez Panisse Foundation to use food to "teach, nurture, and empower young people." She supports the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act, and was largely responsible for encouraging Michelle Obama to create a White House garden. Whatever direction her activism takes her in, in the years to come, she has the reputation — and the moral authority — to bring a lot of people along with her.
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