Product Description

Alice Waters, executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant is a strong advocate for farmer's markets and for sound and sustainable agriculture. In 1996, in celebration of the restaurant's twenty-fifth anniversary, she created the Chez Panisse Foundation to help underwrite cultural and educational programs such as the one at the Edible Schoolyard that demonstrate the transformative power of growing, cooking, and sharing food. This book explores the creation of the Edible Schoolyard and examines its impact.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #391636 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-01
• Released on: 2009-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 80 pages

Review
While it is a delight simply to look at and read, the message for headteachers is that the idea of 'edible education' - learning about food from seed to harvest and eventually to kitchen and mouth - can be transplanted to any school, anywhere, and has a positive impact on children's health, attitude and behaviour. --Leadership Focus, March/April 2009

About the Author
Among Alice's many board affiliations, she is the Founder and Director of the Chez Panisse Foundation, an International Governor of Slow Food, a Visiting Dean at the French Culinary Institute, an Honorary Trustee of the American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts in Napa, and Board Member of the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Alice is author and co-author of eight books, including Chez Panisse Vegetables, Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook, Fanny at Chez Panisse, a storybook and cookbook for children, and most recently, the encyclopedic Chez Panisse Fruit. Chez Panisse restaurant was named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine in 2001. Alice has received numerous awards, including the Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the James Beard Humanitarian Award in 1997. She was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and Cuisine et Vins de France listed her as one of the ten best chefs in the world in 1986.

Customer Reviews

Real learning outside of the classroom
This book acts as an inspiration to all those looking at learning in their schools and wondering 'where to next?'. What started out as an attempt to improve the bleak school grounds of a run down Californian High School ends up being an integrated and holistic approach to learning and health for all children in the school. Alice Waters shows, with the help of many wonderful photos, just what can be achieved when the will and vision is there.