Alice Waters Quotes
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He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality ...
— Alice Waters
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
— Alice Waters
“I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.”
— Alice Waters
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
I am an optimist of the first order.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
— 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
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
— Alice Waters
When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
— Alice Waters
I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.
— Alice Waters
Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.
— Alice Waters
— Alice Waters
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 free school-lunch program.
— Alice Waters
“How we eat can change the world”
— Alice Waters
Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
— Alice Waters
“Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.”
— Alice Waters
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.
— Alice Waters
I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.
— Alice Waters
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