Alice Waters quotes

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. (Alice Waters)

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

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We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

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I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.

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I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

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Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum. (Alice Waters)

I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

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We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

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I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

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I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

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If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

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I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

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The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy. (Alice Waters)