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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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.

Alice Waters

I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

Alice Waters

I'm an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Alice Waters

I have a fireplace in my kitchen that I light every night, no matter what.

Alice Waters

I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.

Alice Waters

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!

Alice Waters

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

Alice Waters

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

Alice Waters

Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.

Alice Waters

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.

Alice Waters

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Alice Waters

I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.

Alice Waters

Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful.

Alice Waters

I am an optimist of the first order.

Alice Waters

People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.

Alice Waters

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

Alice Waters

Author Bio

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