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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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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
Author
Chef
Restaurateur
Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
Agriculture
Relationship
Food
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Culture
Children
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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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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
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It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
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Let things taste the way they are.
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The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
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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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We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids are not educated about healthy food, they have a resistance to it. The resistance comes, again, from the fast-food culture.
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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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Let things taste of what 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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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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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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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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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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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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Eating is an environmental act.
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Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.
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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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