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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

He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality ... — 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

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

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

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook. — Alice Waters

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way. — Alice Waters

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six. — Alice Waters

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria. — Alice Waters

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients. — Alice Waters

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

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives. — Alice Waters

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. — 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

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. — 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

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food. — 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

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back. — 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

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick. — Alice Waters

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time. — 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

Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful. — 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

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap. — 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 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. — 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 have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what. — Alice Waters

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity. — Alice Waters

I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. — 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

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment. — Alice Waters