Alice Waters Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.

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.

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

There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.

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

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.

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

Without food, we cannot survive, and that is why issues that affect the food industry are so important.

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.

Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'

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.

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

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.

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.