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
ingredients good-food depends
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
garden cooks
Always explore your garden and go to the market before you decide what cook.
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.
taste healthy-eating eating-healthy-food
Let things taste of what they are.
privilege good-food should
Good food should be a right not a privilege
cost should farmers
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
shopping cooking rhythm
Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.
creative cooking quality
It is a fundamental fact that no cook, however creative and capable, can produce a dish of a quality any higher than that of its raw ingredients.
mcdonalds california agriculture
Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.
available
The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
teacher children teaching
Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.
cooking dieting more-time
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
needs pesticides privilege
I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist