Quotes by Alice Waters

About Alice Waters:

Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, activist, and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally-grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine.
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It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

Alice Waters

I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.

Alice Waters

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

Alice Waters

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.

Alice Waters

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.

Alice Waters

My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.

Alice Waters

The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.

Alice Waters

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

Alice Waters

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.

Alice Waters

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...

Alice Waters

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

Alice Waters

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Alice Waters

The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.

Alice Waters

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown u...

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

Alice Waters

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

Alice Waters

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. Nee...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAlice Waters
  • DescriptionAmerican chef, restaurateur, activist, and author
  • BornApril 28, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionChef; Author