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