Alice Waters Quotes

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

For me, creating a supply chain of what we should be eating is incredibly complicated. It's complicated to figure out how to change the food system in America.

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.

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

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

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

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

'Generation Food' is a collaboration between myself and author/activist Raj Patel that will tell stories about efforts around the world to try to solve the food crisis - through a documentary, a book, a website and mobile apps.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

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

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

The right use of food can end hunger.

To address our current food system problems, I propose a series of local, regional, national and global conversations - starting around the dinner table - to rethink the food we produce, buy and eat.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

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.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

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.

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

The single most important problem with food in this country is that it is vastly overproduced.

Food security is not only a matter of humanitarian assistance and agricultural development; it is a matter of national security, peace and stability.

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.

We want kids in communities to know real food, and we want them to have a choice between real food and industrial food.

We want our communities to know what real food is.

I think that allowing the nation to become so ignorant about food has been such a backward step - and to be honest I don't think there should be a School Food Trust. It shouldn't be necessary.