Alice Waters Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• 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

  Integrity, Years, Roots

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

  Alice Waters

  Thinking, Way

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• Good food should be a right not a privilege.

  Alice Waters

  Privilege, Good Food, Should

  "Alice Waters and Obama’s ‘Kitchen’ Cabinet" by Tara Parker-Pope, well.blogs.nytimes.com. December 11, 2008.

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• 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

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• 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

  Pesticides, Privilege, Needs

  "Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden" by Kate Barrett, Brian Hartman, abcnews.go.com. March 20, 2009.

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

  Alice Waters

  Children, Kids, Cooking

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• 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

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• When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

  Alice Waters

  Quality, Lists, Purity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let things taste of what they are.

  Alice Waters

  Taste, Healthy Eating, Eating Healthy Food

  Alice Waters (2010). “The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution”, p.18, Clarkson Potter

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• The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

  Alice Waters

  Available

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• 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

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• If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's not something you can legislate. It's that you're giving me the best bread I ever had and I'm so happy to give you money for it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than stand in line and give money for your bread.

  Alice Waters

  Communication, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Let things taste the way they are.

  Alice Waters

  Food, Way, Taste

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• 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

  Thinking, Agriculture, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

  Alice Waters

  Believe, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.

  Alice Waters

  Real, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

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• The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

  Alice Waters

  Community, Together, Our Family

  Source: www.salon.com

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• 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

  Mcdonalds, California, Agriculture

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

  Alice Waters

  Problem, Fast Food Nation, Fast Food

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• We're, as Carlos Petrini says, we're on a train and it's going off the edge of the cliff. We have to stop the track and get off. Now we're in a jungle. We don't know how we're going to get out but we'll find a way. I've always believed in people power. I saw it happen when we organized around the AIDS crisis... We made an AIDS quilt that covered the entire mall. Everybody had a part in it and we can do this.

  Alice Waters

  People, Track, Aids

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

  Alice Waters

  Cost, Should, Farmers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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, Gone

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• I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick.

  Alice Waters

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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