Alice Waters Quotes

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

We don't value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.

We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.

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.

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

With the growth of both urbanization and globalization, consumers are becoming increasingly disconnected from their food.

Food can change anything.