Alice Waters Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“I think America's 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, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm 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. It's effortless.”

“I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.”