Alice Waters
Alice Waters
Alice Louise Watersis an American chef, restaurateur, activist and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth28 April 1944
CityChatham, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful.
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A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
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First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.
You have to take it upon yourself and preserve and can foods that you'll want for the winter.
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I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
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I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.
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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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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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You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.
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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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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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The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.
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In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.
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I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.