Alice Waters Quotes
Top 63 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alice Waters
Alice Waters Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Alice Waters on Wise Famous Quotes.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
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.
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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 around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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.
My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.
It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.