Chez Panisse Turns 50: How Alice Waters Elevated Food Justice With French Classics

Jill Ettinger
5 min readAug 28, 2021

Chef Alice Waters’ Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Its refined approach to French cuisine shined the spotlight on regenerative agriculture and helped to transform our food system. But fifty years on, Waters says there’s still work to be done.

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