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Food Quotes by Alice Waters
- 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…
- Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
- 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…
- We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
- Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
- 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…
- Let things taste the way they are.
- I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.
- We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap?…
- In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
- A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
- The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about…
- Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.
- English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I…
- First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow…
- Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue…
- The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
- I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because…
- I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that…
- I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
- I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
- When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the…
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- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of… — Sai Baba
- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
- Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat,… — Antonio Banderas
- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks