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Berkeley's Alice Waters Wants White House Victory Garden. By Lisa Tolin, AP, January 23, 2009. "Alice Waters has been appealing for change through the tastebuds since the '60s, leading the push for organic and local food from her Berkeley, Calif., restaurant Chez Panisse. But for the first time in a long time, she sees an advocate in the White House. Her dream? A 'Victory Garden' on the White House lawn, a gesture both symbolic and practical. She's talked about it with first lady Michelle Obama, explaining that there was a garden at the executive mansion during World War II. 'At this economic moment, with such difficulty, we should be thinking about how we can feed people,' Waters said. 'And bringing jobs should include green farming'... After her Slow Food Nation event in San Francisco last year, she finally thinks she's getting somewhere against the tide of a fast-food culture... Another agenda she'd like to see adopted by the Obama Administration is her Edible Schoolyard project in Berkeley, where the children plant their own produce to eat in the cafeteria."