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. Alice Waters More Quotes by Alice Waters More Quotes From Alice Waters I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. Alice Waters realization people way It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden. Alice Waters pasta garden comfort 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. Alice Waters roots integrity years Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives. Alice Waters rhythm shopping cooking It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients. Alice Waters quality cooking creative Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients. Alice Waters depends good-food ingredients Let things taste of what they are. Alice Waters eating-healthy-food healthy-eating taste We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way. Alice Waters way thinking We're, as Carlos Petrini says, we're on a train and it's going off the edge of the cliff. We have to stop the track and get off. Now we're in a jungle. We don't know how we're going to get out but we'll find a way. I've always believed in people power. I saw it happen when we organized around the AIDS crisis... We made an AIDS quilt that covered the entire mall. Everybody had a part in it and we can do this. Alice Waters aids track people We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking. Alice Waters more-time dieting cooking Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives. Alice Waters garden children school I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture. Alice Waters agriculture united-states thinking It's about children cooking themselves, growing themselves. When kids grow it and cook it they eat it. Alice Waters cooking kids children I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. Alice Waters farmers cost should If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless. Alice Waters oil gone tuesday 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. Alice Waters agriculture california mcdonalds I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair. It's unfair to charge for food in schools, especially to charge for food that is making children sick. Alice Waters believe children school Good food should be a right not a privilege. Alice Waters good-food privilege should I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. Alice Waters onions spring littles It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often. Alice Waters poverty technology interesting
