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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
Alice Waters
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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
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Chef
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Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
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Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
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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 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.
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We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im 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. Its effortless.
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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
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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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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.
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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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I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
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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.
Alice Waters
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
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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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