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