Author: Alice Waters

Quotes

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

- Alice Waters

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Alice Waters

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

- Alice Waters

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

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

- Alice Waters

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.

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.

- Alice Waters

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

- Alice Waters

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

- Alice Waters

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