Latest Alice Waters Quotes from Interviews

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• It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's not something you can legislate. It's that you're giving me the best bread I ever had and I'm so happy to give you money for it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than stand in line and give money for your bread.

  Alice Waters

  Communication, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.salon.com

• 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

  People, Track, Aids

  Source: www.salon.com

• The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

  Alice Waters

  Community, Together, Our Family

  Source: www.salon.com

• We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.

  Alice Waters

  Understanding, Together, Environment

  Source: www.salon.com

• If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

• In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids are not educated about healthy food, they have a resistance to it. The resistance comes, again, from the fast-food culture.

  Alice Waters

  Kids, Healthy, Culture

  Source: www.salon.com

• The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.

  Alice Waters

  Real, School, Mean

  Source: www.salon.com

• When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.

  Alice Waters

  Believe, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.salon.com

• 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

  Technology, Interesting, Poverty

  Source: www.salon.com

• 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

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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

  Alice Waters

  Cost, Should, Farmers

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Thinking, Agriculture, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Integrity, Years, Roots

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Quality, Lists, Purity

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  People, Realization, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org