An Education of the Senses at the University of California, Berkeley

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Research Article| November 01 2021 An Education of the Senses at the University of California, Berkeley: Alice Waters from Then to Now Cari Borja Cari Borja Cari Borja is a writer, clothesmaker, and salonniere who received her PhD in cultural anthropology and film from UC Berkeley in 2001. She was a consulting anthropologist for Apple from 2017 to 2020, and creative-directs a variety of galas and salons, including She-Can Global in San Francisco and New York City and the Boston Review magazine in the Bay Area. She is an Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts, teaching Design Ethnography in the MFA Design program. Her most recent research focuses on the ambivalent role our earliest childhood food memories play in our relationship to what and when, with whom and where, and how and why we eat. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2021) 21 (4): 54–64. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.4.54 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Cari Borja; An Education of the Senses at the University of California, Berkeley: Alice Waters from Then to Now. Gastronomica 1 November 2021; 21 (4): 54–64. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.4.54 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentGastronomica Search It’s been fifty years since the founding of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, that Alice Waters and a group of friends helped to create in 1971. On August 28, 2021, rather than celebrating the past, Alice and president of the University of California, Michael V. Drake,1 had planned on gathering educators, artists, farmers, environmentalists, journalists, and philanthropists to celebrate the power of public education and to address climate change. However, in the midst of a surge of COVID-19 cases from the Delta variant, the event was postponed. In an email signed by both Alice and President Drake, the following message was sent: We wanted your presence at the table to show support for public education and the values it can bring to life by the economic stimulus of local organic food procurement. It is a powerful, hopeful,... © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California2021 You do not currently have access to this content.