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Eating is an environmental act.

Alice Waters

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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
Author
Chef
Restaurateur
Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
Environmental
Eating
Environment

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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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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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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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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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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.
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When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
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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.
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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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Let things taste of what they are.
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Let things taste the way they are.
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I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
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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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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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Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
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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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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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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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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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It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
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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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