Alice Waters Quotes
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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.
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
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.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
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.
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.