It has been a slow 30 years of progress for all environmentalists, but Alice Waters has more right to gripe than most. She's never asked anyone to install solar panels or drive less. She just wants people to eat stuff that tastes better. The owner of the venerable Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., Waters has been proving since 1971 that the best foods of all are locally grown and simply prepared-making them good for you and for the planet as well. In recent years, Waters, 64, has seen her ideas go mainstream. Her restaurant and cookbooks launched the local-foods movement, and her Edible Schoolyard project encourages students to help grow and shop for their lunches. She is also working in the Slow Food movement, helping to find the best varieties of fruits and vegetables for sustainability and nutrition-and, of course, taste. Because that's how Waters wins any debate about the environment.
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