150 Quotes by Alice Waters

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.

I can't imagine leaving the restaurant. It's hard for me to separate my life from my work; I'm really thinking about what we're doing every day.

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's 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.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.