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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
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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.
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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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