The Julia Child Award Recipient for 2024

Alice Waters

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Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California, which first opened its doors in 1971. She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for more than four decades. In 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free regenerative organic school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school.

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Past Recipients

2023 – Sean Sherman

Chef Sean Sherman focuses on the revitalization and evolution of Indigenous foods systems throughout North America.

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2022 – Grace Young

Named the “poet laureate of the wok” by food historian Betty Fussell

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2021 – Toni Tipton-Martin

Toni Tipton-Martin is an award-winning author and food journalist

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2020 – Danielle Nierenberg

In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank.

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2019 – José Andrés

Restaurateur and chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup
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2018 – Mary Sue Milliken

Co-Chef and Owner – Border Grill
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2018 – Susan Feniger

Co-Chef and Owner – Border Grill
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2017 – Danny Meyer

Restaurateur and the CEO of the Union Square Hospitality Group
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2016 – Rick Bayless

Chef, Television Host, Cookbook Author, Humanitarian
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2015 – Jacques Pépin

Renowned chef, cookbook author and culinary personality
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