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2015 “From Garden to Table” Honoree Announced

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden to Host Gala Tribute to Alice Waters of Chez Panisse Fame

Pittsburgh, PA., March 16, 2015—The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is pleased to announce that another culinary megastar, Alice Waters, is the 2015 honoree at its annual fundraiser “From Garden to Table, “on Saturday, September 12. Previous honorees include Ina Garten, aka The Barefoot Contessa (2013) and the esteemed Thomas Keller (2014).

Promising to be the culinary event of the year, it will be a collaborative effort featuring a distinguished group of local chefs including Bill Fuller (big Burrito Restaurant Group), Trevett Hopper (Legume Bistro and Butterjoint), Sonja Finn (Dinette), Kate Romane (e2), Justin Severino (Cure) and Derek Stevens (Eleven). These talented chefs will prepare the dinner tribute to Ms. Waters, celebrating her tremendous contributions in making freshly sourced food supreme. The event will take place on the grounds of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden for the first time and will be centered in the newly opened Ada and George Davidson Event and Culinary Center, which showcases a newly restored 1870s barn.

According to Greg Nace, President of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, “We are privileged to welcome and honor Alice Waters at the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden. Her visionary career in food and fostering the garden to table movement is an inspiration to the culinary and horticulture worlds.” 

Ticket details are available at or by calling 412-444-4464.

About Alice Waters

Alice Waters--chef, author, food activist and owner of Chez Panisse--has been a champion of local, sustainable agriculture for over four decades and is credited with being one of the pioneers of “California cuisine.” She is the founder of The Edible Schoolyard Project, an innovative model for public education that integrates the growing and cooking of food into the core academic curriculum. The centerpiece of the mission is to promote a free, nutritious and sustainable school lunch for all students, K–12, and to bring children into a new relationship with food.

Her vision for edible education began 20 years ago with The Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, which today draws visitors from around the world. The online Edible Schoolyard Network () gathers and shares lessons and best practices from school gardens, kitchens and edible education programs worldwide. To date, there are more than 4,000 Edible Schoolyard Network member programs in 54 countries.

Ms. Waters is also vice president of Slow Food International and the author of fourteen books including New York Times bestsellers The Art of Simple Food I & II, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering and The Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea.

About the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is transforming 460 acres of abandoned mining land just 10 miles west of Pittsburgh, PA into a world-class botanic garden, including 18 distinct gardens, five diverse woodland experiences, a visitor’s center, an amphitheater for outdoor concerts and performances, a celebration center to accommodate weddings and corporate events and a center for botanic research. The first 60 acres, the Woodlands, opens permanently on April 1, 2015. For more information please visit .

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