150 Quotes by Alice Waters

The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.

Good food should be a right not a privilege.

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.

It’s about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it.

How we eat can change the world.

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.

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.

We’ve been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

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.