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

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

— Alice Waters

Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

— Alice Waters

I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.

— Alice Waters

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to…

— Alice Waters

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse…

— Alice Waters

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

— Alice Waters

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are…

— Alice Waters

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really…

— Alice Waters

I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And…

— Alice Waters

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers…

— 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

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet,…

— Alice Waters

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…

— Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables,…

— Alice Waters

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

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 all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it…

— Alice Waters

Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden…

— Alice Waters

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

Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

— Alice Waters

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

— Alice Waters

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

— Alice Waters

I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

— Alice Waters

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

— Alice Waters

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.

— Alice Waters

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

— 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

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

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture.…

— 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 feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides.…

— Alice Waters