Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

— 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

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

— Alice Waters

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.

— 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. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

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.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

— Alice Waters

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'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.

— Alice Waters

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

— Alice Waters

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

— Alice Waters

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

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

Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That's what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.

— Alice Waters

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

— Alice Waters

I think health is the outcome of finding a balance and some satisfaction at the table.

— Alice Waters

The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.

— 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

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

— Alice Waters

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

— Alice Waters

You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.

— 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.

— Alice Waters

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

— 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

I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. 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

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

— Alice Waters

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

— Alice Waters

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

— Alice Waters