Alice Waters Quotes

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Alice Waters

Profession : Chef

Birth : April 28, 1944

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.

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 think America's 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, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

Alice Waters

I am an optimist of the first order.

Alice Waters

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alice Waters

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

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.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

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My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.

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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

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

Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

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A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

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

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters