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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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Alice Waters
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: April 28
Author
Chef
Restaurateur
Chatham Borough
New Jersey
Alice Louise Waters
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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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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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We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.
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Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
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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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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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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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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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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
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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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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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Let things taste the way they are.
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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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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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To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.
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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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How we eat can change the world
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Let things taste of what they are.
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