Chef Alice Waters has always been friends with food.
The search for good food led Alice Waters to France, and then back to
Berkeley, California, where she started Chez Panisse restaurant and the
Edible Schoolyard. For Alice, a delicious meal does not start in the
kitchen, but in the fields with good soil and caring farmers.
Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott winner, Snowflake
Bentley, teams up with Hayelin Choi, making her illustration debut, to
show how one child's search for delicious led to a dream for all
children to share the joy of tasty food--the same joy we get from a
beautiful song, or a starry sky.
Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious is the second of the author's
Food Heroes series on people who changed what and how we eat, after the
award-winning Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table.
Alice Waters founded Chez Panisse restaurant in 1971 and the Edible
Schoolyard in 1995. She won the James Beard Award for Best Chef in 1992
and Chez Panisse was named the Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet in
2001. Time magazine named her among 100 Most Influential People in the
World in 2014.