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Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

Alice Waters

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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
Author
Chef
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Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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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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I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.
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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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The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
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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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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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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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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
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I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
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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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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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How we eat can change the world
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Let things taste the way they are.
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Eating is an environmental act.
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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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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 things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
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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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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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