Author: Alice Waters

Quotes

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

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

- Alice Waters

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

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

- Alice Waters

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

- 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

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

- 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

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

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