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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.

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
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Market
Garden
Always
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People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.
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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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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick.
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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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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.
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How we eat can change the world
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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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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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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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Let things taste the way they are.
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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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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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