Alice Waters Quotes
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The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
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If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
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I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
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Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.
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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
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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.
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Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes.
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I think America's 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, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
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Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's 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.
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It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.
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If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
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People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.
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I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
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I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.
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I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
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Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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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 markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
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I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
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I was a very picky eater.
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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.