Alice Waters Quotes
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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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When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.
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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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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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Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
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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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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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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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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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People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.
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I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.
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I was a very picky eater.
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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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It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
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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.