Alain Ducasse Quotes

I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

I grew up as a country boy.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I think it is good to grow up on a farm, with nature, with animals and everything when you are young.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

My plan was to release a tape, move to Arkansas, live on a farm, and make music like Bon Iver.

I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.

Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.

I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.

I've become a produce snob. I like to eat food that's in season.

Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.