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
people realization way
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
children real school
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.
children real thinking
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.
real land people
Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an elitist thing. It's not. It's just that we have to pay the real cost of food. People have to understand that cheap food has been subsidized. We have to realize that it's important to pay farmers up front, because they are taking care of the land.
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.
beautiful extent glad people represent statement succeeded
I'm glad it's a woman. It can't be anything but encouraging to people to have someone at the top, particularly from another country. That particularly makes a beautiful statement that someone has succeeded to the extent that they represent the president.
great hands lewis rest soul
Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something of which the rest of us know little or nothing.
change might people revealed themselves ultimately
Every change ultimately is one for the better. You don't know how it is going to be. It is just shuffling the cards, and people who haven't revealed themselves might reveal themselves.
engaged intimacy listen quiet
She just had a very quiet way of speaking, and it really engaged you because she was so soft-spoken; you had to listen carefully. There was a kind of intimacy that you immediately had.
continue elizabeth
I'm always going back to Elizabeth David. I continue to be a fan. I can read and reread and find something important in there.
thinking agriculture want
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.
government mcdonalds insane
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
summer childhood corn
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.
agriculture people helping
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.