Alice Waters Quotes

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

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

My goal is to go from the industrial food system toward a real food system where you understand what you are eating.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

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.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

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.

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an eggplant from a sweet potato. We have to show them how to get grounded in the truest sense of the word.

I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't care about how their food was grown but who did care about their health.

I probably spend more on food than a lot of people, and I feel good about the whole food chain I'm supporting when I'm doing it. But even I have to remind myself. I'm always complaining about the prices at the farmer's market.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even though Obama failed to do many things he indicated he would do around food, Michelle Obama has done a lot to shine a light on the link between diet and health, which is really important.

Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

We get emails from parents asking us what kale is because their kids are asking for it. That kind of extraordinary presence in the community is critical to the future of real food.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

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

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

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

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

Supermarkets don't really sustain a community, and they completely remove people from the food chain.