People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables,… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way.… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
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… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
