Awards and Honors
Gourmet magazine awarded Chez Panisse restaurant as the Best Restaurant in America in 2001. In addition, Waters has won other honors.
- Listed as one of the ten best chefs in the world in 1986 by Cuisine et Vins de France .
- Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992
- James Beard Humanitarian Award in 1997
- Bon Appetit magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2007
- Given Global Environmental Citizen Award by Harvard Medical School February 2008 together with Kofi Annan
- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008 that Waters will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. She was among 12 inductees in 2008.
- In 2009, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Princeton University.
- Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council
- French Legion of Honor in 2009
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