Chef Alice Waters Visits Watkins’ Foodprints Program
Alice Waters and Barbara Percival get ready to tour the Watkins Edible Schoolyard.
On Friday January 2oth, 2012, Watkins Elementary School was honored to host a visit with Chef Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse restaurant. Waters is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally. Her commitment to food and education led to the first “Edible Schoolyard” at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley in 1996.
The visit was arranged through FRESHFARM Markets. Waters made time to visit Watkins Edible Schoolyard before her portrait was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery that evening. She toured the new FoodPrints Food Lab, and the gardens. According to Jennifer Mampara, she was especially delighted to see the new classroom, and even more, the Edible Schoolyard sign on the vegetable garden. Waters is in the process of tracking the programs that have been springing up around the country.
For more photos from the day, visit the Capitol Hill Cluster School facebook page.
Alice Waters in the Watkins Edible Schoolyard
Alice Waters visits Watkins FoodPrints Food Lab and discusses the curriculum, which is integrated into the science classes at Watkins Elementary School.