Chefs Collaborative’s Alice Waters tells Bon Appetit magazine about the importance of spreading the Chef’s locally grown, organic-only food manifesto to children. “It’s more important than reading, writing, and arithmetic.” Waters wants schools to follow the Chefs’ beliefs in shaping school lunch programs, and is hoping that a Chefs Collaborative-like lunch program will be adopted nationwide. (“Cooks in Bloom,” Bon Appetit, December 2000)