Alice Waters

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

— Alice Waters

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

— Alice Waters

Eating is an environmental act.

— Alice Waters

How we eat can change the world

— Alice Waters

Let things taste of what they are.

— Alice Waters

Let things taste the way they are.

— Alice Waters

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

— Alice Waters

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

— Alice Waters

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

— 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…

— Alice Waters

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where…

— Alice Waters

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes…

— Alice Waters

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars.…

— Alice Waters

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep…

— Alice Waters

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer.…

— Alice Waters

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people…

— Alice Waters

Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I…

— Alice Waters

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do…

— Alice Waters

When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as…

— Alice Waters

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them…

— Alice Waters

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that…

— Alice Waters

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they…

— Alice Waters

Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit…

— Alice Waters

We're, as Carlos Petrini says, we're on a train and it's going off the edge of the cliff. We have to stop…

— Alice Waters

“1¼ cups white wine vinegar 1¾ cups water 2½ tablespoons sugar ½ bay leaf 4 thyme sprigs A pinch of dried chile…

— Alice Waters

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life…

— Alice Waters

If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county…

— Alice Waters

I am an optimist of the first order.

— Alice Waters

I was a very picky eater.

— Alice Waters

“He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality...”

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters