150 Quotes by Alice Waters

I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

This is the next dimension of the farmers' market in San Francisco. It's to bring Slow Food people from across the country into this experience to celebrate what we have in this country -- all these special artisan products in these little pockets.

I'm glad it's a woman. It can't be anything but encouraging to people to have someone at the top, particularly from another country. That particularly makes a beautiful statement that someone has succeeded to the extent that they represent the president.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

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