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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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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
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Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
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