Alice Waters Quotes

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

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

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.

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.

We need to have a course in school that teaches about ecology and gastronomy. I could imagine that all children could eat at school for free and that the cafeteria would become part of the school's curriculum.

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.

We undervalue food in this country, yet Britain has beautiful food and beautiful growing conditions. It is astonishing the range we can grow.

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

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

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our 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.

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.

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

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

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

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

I eat everything, but I moderate; I try to be semiconscious. I don't eat pasta every day, although people who follow my Instagram think I do.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.