Our Team

Alice Waters (advisor), called “the mother of American cooking” by Time magazine and named the best chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992, has spent 35 years at the forefront of America’s fresh food culture. In 1971 she founded Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, and soon gained international recognition for serving only the highest quality foods, only in season. Today, she is author or co-author of ten books, including Chez Panisse Vegetables, Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook, and, most recently, In the Green Kitchen. Alice is a visiting dean at the French Culinary Institute and an international governor of Slow Food. She was the subject of Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution on the PBS American Masters series in 2003.

John T. Edge (host), director of the Southern Foodways Alliance and author of six books including the James Beard Award-nominated cookbook, A Gracious Plenty: Recipes and Recollections from the American South, celebrates iconic American foods and the cultures from which they spring. Edge was a contributing editor at Gourmet (RIP) and is a columnist for The New York Times. He has appeared on dozens of television shows ranging from CBS Sunday Morning to Iron Chef America. See him on Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie here. See his reel here.

Evan Elliot (creator) writes the wine-and-food column for Edible San Francisco magazine. He also teaches rhetoric at the University of San Francisco and creative nonfiction writing at U.C. Berkeley Extension, and writes book text and promotional copy for the likes of Chronicle Books (Weber’s Art of the Grill), Boudin, Patagonia, and Smith & Hawken.

Charlotte Baker Weinert (executive producer) grew up on a 130-acre farm in Missouri. She has worked in the film industry for 17 years, for studios including Akira Kurosawa Picture Promotion, HBO, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Universal, and for commercial production companies serving clients such as Williams-Sonoma, Visa, Nike, and Sony.

Jon Else (consulting director of photography), winner of four national Emmy Awards—for writing, producing, directing, and cinematography—is best known for his documentary The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb. He was cinematographer on Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution for American Masters on PBS.

Nicole Newnham (producer) recently produced and directed The Rape of Europa, an award-winning feature documentary about the fate of Europe’s cultural treasures during WWII. She has also produced and directed over 30 of Martha Stewart’s “Field Trips” segments, featuring food purveyors, farmers, and chefs from Northern California.

Camille Servan-Schreiber (producer), winner of the Golden Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, was field producer on Alice Waters and her Delicious Revolution for American Masters on PBS.

Alex de Grassi (composer) has 15 albums, one Grammy nomination, and five documentary film scores to his credit. The Los Angeles Times calls him “an acoustic guitarist of virtuosic strength and ability,” and his debut Windham Hill album, “Turning: Turning Back,” has been named a top-ten essential fingerstyle guitar recording by Acoustic Guitar magazine. Alex has recently received commissions for a guitar concerto from String Letter Publishing and for a film score
by the New York Guitar Festival.

Tracey Ryder (advisor) is cofounder and CEO of Edible Communities, a national network of place-based magazines that celebrate farmers, fishers, food artisans, chefs, and restaurateurs who in turn celebrate fresh, seasonal foods in distinct culinary regions. Edible Communities is 65 publications strong and enjoys a readership of more than 13 million people nationwide.

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