Alice Waters
publication date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 (part of March 2025)
category: 
Cuisine
clue: One cannot enjoy a California-style pizza prepared farm-to-table without appreciating the influence of her "ghetto" restaurant.
explanation: Waters was the 1971 co-founder, and remains the owner and operator today, of influential restaurant Chez Panisse in the so-called "Gourmet Ghetto" area of Berkeley. The restaurant pioneered the use of organic food sourced locally and is widely credited for launching the farm-to-table movement, as well as being the first restaurant to serve what came to be called California-style pizza. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Richard Slominsky, and LaVonne Lemler
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