Alice Waters Quotes
19 quotes from Alice Waters — Chef and founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley..
“Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter – care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of.”
“The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.”
“Good food should be a right not a privilege.”
“Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.”
“I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.”
“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”
“Let things taste of what they are.”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
“He understands that creating a meal means creating your own reality.”
“This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.”
“Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.”
“I cannot compromise when it comes to wholesomeness. Our health begins in the ground. Period.”
“Shopping at the organic farmers market, buying whatever's in season that looks the ripest and most vibrant, and bringing it home to cook with my friends.”
“What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Moderation!”
“I wanted to get to him through all his senses. Taste is an incredibly strong sensation — it's deeper than language. So are touch and smell. And it's very hard to reach people if they can't connect with all their senses.”
“That's kind of 85 percent of cooking, is about finding those ingredients, and then it's so easy after that. You just let them be themselves.”
“A sense of community rarely happens spontaneously. It doesn't work to just exhort people to be responsible. It has to be demonstrated — with determination and persistence, over and over again.”
“I know I can sound a little rarefied or elitist or whatever about all of this, but I absolutely believe that this is available to everyone. I could never speak about it if I felt that it wasn't possible for everyone to experience this kind of beauty.”
“I, of course, didn't imagine that I would have to be in the kitchen and I couldn't be at the table. So I didn't see my friends for a very long time.”
