Alice Waters Quotes

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

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

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

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.

When you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. ... The reason why people starve is because of poverty ... not because of a shortage of food ... but because the only way to access the food is through the market.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

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 are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

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

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

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

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

As an anti-hunger advocate, I found the perplexity of the obesity problem and the hunger problem existing side-by-side in our increasingly global food system begged further investigation.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

I can't think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We're dealing with the same old problems we've dealt with for 60,000 years.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

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.

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

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.

'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 isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

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