Outdoor learning

For Slow Food pioneer Alice Waters, the vegetable garden is the school of life - we took a closer look at her textbook.

Alice Waters is a revolutionary with remarkable success. By the time Jamie Oliver was still battling intransigent English mothers who sneaked fries to their children through the school fence, Waters had already succeeded in getting the Obamas to plant a self-sufficient vegetable garden on the White House grounds.

The pioneer of green, environmentally conscious cooking: Alice Waters

And with her "Edible Schoolyard Project," she's been advocating since the mid-1990s that every school should have a garden so that children can learn how to grow their own food and turn it into tasty meals. Even math should become delicious in the garden: In the "rhubarb jam math lesson," students have to solve math problems linked to the jam recipe.

Alice Waters' recipes from the kitchen garden.

Thematically organized according to the seasons.

With practical advice on cultivation and quality characteristics.

And beautiful illustrations by Patricia Curtan.

In her book, The Art of Simple Food, the Mother of Wholesome Education has put together a checklist, titled "What We Can Do." We can value farmers, nourish the soil, do a lot of things ourselves. Teach children the art of eating. And though Waters hails from California, the birthplace of green smoothies and the passionate fight against gluten, her mission has none of that annoying pushiness about it, quite the opposite. "The fringed leaves of frisée are up to a warm vinaigrette, and the duck fat in this salad soothes their bitter notes. " Waters writes in her book, or again, "The secret ingredient is anticipation." Gourmet poetry with which she puts forward her idea of regional cuisine. And makes you want to go out and pull heads of lettuce in some corner. Or just stuff some zucchini flowers, open a wine and sit out into the summer night. All in the name of education, of course.

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