150 Quotes by Alice Waters

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.