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
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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.
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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.
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Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
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English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
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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.
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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.
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There aren't many big ideas about how to solve the problems,
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Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
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It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.
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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
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When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.
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The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
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When you're really considering all the qualities of food, purity is right there at the top of the list. I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
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Eating is an environmental act.