Alice Waters
Alice Waters
Alice Louise Watersis an American chef, restaurateur, activist and author. She is the owner of Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and for pioneering California cuisine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth28 April 1944
CityChatham, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
equipment food touching
A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.
feeding food good people
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
cooking incredibly money work
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
food people relationship works
I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
edible nonstop says symbolism
I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.
came cheap fast food lack paid preparing uniformity values
A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.
certain deny hard tastes tender
Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.
boil bring depends eight maybe size wonderful
Hard-boiled eggs are wonderful when they're really done right. I bring the water to a boil, and then I put in the eggs. And then I boil them for - well, it depends on the size of the egg - maybe eight minutes.
ideas solve
There aren't many big ideas about how to solve the problems,
thoughtful hopeful inspire
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
decisions-you-make choices way
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ingredients good-food depends
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
spring littles tiny
I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
integrity years roots
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.