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

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

It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

— Alice Waters

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

— Alice Waters

If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to…

— 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

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

— 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

We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends…

— Alice Waters

English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired…

— Alice Waters

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

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than…

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our…

— Alice Waters

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

— Alice Waters

My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is…

— Alice Waters

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

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what…

— Alice Waters

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to…

— Alice Waters

I think if you buy from people who are taking care of the land, you're supporting the future of this country.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

— Alice Waters

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way.…

— Alice Waters

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

— Alice Waters

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

— Alice Waters

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a…

— Alice Waters

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

— Alice Waters

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more…

— Alice Waters

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and…

— Alice Waters

If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook…

— Alice Waters

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of…

— Alice Waters

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat…

— Alice Waters