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We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

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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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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 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 want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.
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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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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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Eating is an environmental act.
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The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.
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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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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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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.
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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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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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