Alice Waters Quotes

52 quotes in 615 categories

• Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
• 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 to…
• Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to…
• Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's…
• Eating is an environmental act.
• Let things taste of what they are.
• Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
• The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
• Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires…
• When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it…
• Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table…
• We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
• Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
• This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
• 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.
• Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
• We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
• How we eat can change the world
• I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and…
• It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

Browse Alice Waters Quotes by Category