Alice Waters Quotes
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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.
— Alice Waters
It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
— Alice Waters
I was a very picky eater.
— Alice Waters
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
— Alice Waters
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
— Alice Waters
You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.
— Alice Waters
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
— Alice Waters
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
— Alice Waters
I am an optimist of the first order.
— Alice Waters
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
— Alice Waters
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
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
— Alice Waters
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
— Alice Waters
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
— Alice Waters
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
— Alice Waters
A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
— Alice Waters
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
— Alice Waters
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.
— Alice Waters
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
— Alice Waters
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.
— Willard Spiegelman
I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.
— Alice Waters
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
— Alice Waters
I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.
— Alice Waters
I try not to do anything that's immoral.
— Alice Waters
To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
— Alice Waters
I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
— Alice Waters
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
— Alice Waters
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
— Alice Waters
I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
— Alice Waters
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
— Alice Waters
Let things taste the way they are.
— Alice Waters
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
— Alice Waters
When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
— Alice Waters
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
— Alice Waters
How we eat can change the world
— Alice Waters
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.
— Alice Waters
Eating is an environmental act.
— Alice Waters
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
— Alice Waters
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
— Alice Waters
I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
— Alice Waters
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.
— Alice Waters
I think health is the outcome of eating well.
— Alice Waters
I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.
— Alice Waters
Let things taste of what they are.
— Alice Waters
