num_pages: 48
description: From the team behind the acclaimed Ada Lovelace Poet of Science comes a delicious nonfiction picture book biography about pioneering chef Alice Waters who kickstarted the organic food movement.Whenever young Alice Waters tasted something delicious like the sun-warmed berries from her familys garden or a crisp ripe apple picked straight from the tree she would remember it for the rest of her life. Later as she tasted many more wonderful foods she realized what made them so goodthey were fresh and ripe grown or made the old-fashioned way.When Alice grew up she opened a restaurant called Chez Panisse. As part of her quest to make delicious food Alice sought out small local farmers to provide the meat dairy and produce. The restaurant made her famous but it did much more than thatit started a food revolution. Today home cooks and chefs alike are all discovering the simple secret to the Best! Food! Ever! This book is a celebration of food cooking and the woman whose curiosity and devotion to flavor kickstarted Americas interest in buying local organic food.
language: English
title: Alice Waters Cooks Up a Food Revolution
publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books