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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

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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
Lives
Shopping
Rhythm
Cooking

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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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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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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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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 have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
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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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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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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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If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish I can wilt some greens with garlic I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.
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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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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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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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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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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
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How we eat can change the world
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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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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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It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
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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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