Alice Waters famous quotes

I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #Real #School

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

#Real #School #Lunch

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

#Children #Community #Privilege

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

#Educational #Teaching #Kids

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 not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.
-- Alice Waters

#Real #Land #People

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

#Garden #Cooks

Let things taste of what they are.
-- Alice Waters

#Taste

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
-- Alice Waters

#Thoughtful #Hopeful #Inspire

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 and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
-- Alice Waters

#Giving #Humanity #Tables

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

#Children #New Relationship #Agriculture

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 is.
-- Alice Waters

#Taste #Ingredients #Cooks

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
-- Alice Waters

#Thinking #Way

How we eat can change the world
-- Alice Waters

#World #Changing The World

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

#Children #School #Patriotic

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
-- Alice Waters

#Agriculture #People #Helping

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
-- Alice Waters

#Teacher #Children #Teaching

If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.
-- Alice Waters

#Oil #Tuesday #Littles

I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #Real #Thinking

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
-- Alice Waters

#Beautiful #Different #Way

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
-- Alice Waters

#Government #Mcdonalds #Insane

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
-- Alice Waters

#Problem #Fast Food

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
-- Alice Waters

#Cooking #Dieting #More Time

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
-- Alice Waters

#Agriculture #Mcdonalds #California

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

#Needs #Pesticides #Privilege

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

#Choices #Decision #Way

It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
-- Alice Waters

#Creative #Cooking #Quality

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 connect with the community around them.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #Believe #Land

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 is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.
-- Alice Waters

#People #Common Sense #Support

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

#Spring #Onions #Littles

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

#Children #Kids #Cooking

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 cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
-- Alice Waters

#Children #School #Garden

Eating is an environmental act.
-- Alice Waters

#Environmental #Environment #Eating

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
-- Alice Waters

#Ingredients #Good Food

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

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.
-- Alice Waters

#Summer #Childhood #Tomatoes

Let things taste the way they are.
-- Alice Waters

#Food #Way #Taste