Alice Waters Quotes

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Alice Waters

Profession : Chef

Birth : April 28, 1944

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

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Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

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I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

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I try not to do anything that's immoral.

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I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

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We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.

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If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.

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I was a very picky eater.

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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.

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We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

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Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

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You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.

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If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.

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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

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

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I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

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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.

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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.

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When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

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