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
taste ingredients cooks
When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
thoughtful hopeful inspire
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
children believe land
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.
educational teaching kids
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
real school lunch
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.
children community privilege
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
buy cheap farmers food pay piece price takes understand work
We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.
break famous feed focused habit hard money next people salt spend students sugar takes ways wealthy
I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.
act buy care eating farmers food land network
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.
food ourselves
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
beatles culture food inventive listening positive
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
food
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
above beauty dishes including kitchen large needs washing whoever windows
My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.
believe guess maybe
I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!