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All Quotes by author - Alice Waters

" A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection. "

" 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. "

" Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative. "

" Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity. "

" 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 was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back. "

" 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. "

" I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive. "

" I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week. "

" It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world. "

" 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 the land and what they put in the food. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong. "

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