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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
Lives
Shopping
Rhythm
Cooking
Brings
Meaning
Food

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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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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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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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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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Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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Good food should be a right not a privilege.
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The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
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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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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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It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.
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It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
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We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
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We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.
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