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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

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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Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
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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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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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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
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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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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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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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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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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
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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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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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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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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 came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.
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We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
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I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
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