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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
Author
Chef
Restaurateur
Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
Education
Community
Responsibly
Kids
Farming
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Feed
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Responsibility

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Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality we can be complete only when we are giving something away when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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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.
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Let things taste the way they are.
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It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
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How we eat can change the world
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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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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.
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Cooking creates a sense of well-being for yourself and the people you love and brings beauty and meaning to everyday life. And all it requires is common sense – the common sense to eat seasonally, to know where your food comes from, to support and buy from local farmers and producers who are good stewards of our natural resources.
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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.
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It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.
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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.
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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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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.
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Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
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