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
food taste way
Let things taste the way they are.
taste healthy-eating eating-healthy-food
Let things taste of what they are.
taste ingredients cooks
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.
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.
ate best early fresh friend girl pulled tasted tomato visited
I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.
class classroom favorite kids
Kids come into the classroom and it's very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it's their favorite class.
attending changes details happens keeping learning organic somebody standard
I think she's really up there at the top. It happens only when somebody is very non-compromising and when somebody is attending to all the details and learning about all the changes in food. The way she has incorporated organic ingredients into her standard repertoire, she is somebody who is keeping up on what's important and getting better at doing it.
thinking agriculture want
I think the biggest impediment to fixing the food system in the United States is that we expect food to be cheap. We want to by other things with our money. We're so disconnected from agriculture - from the culture in agriculture.
government mcdonalds insane
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy.
summer childhood corn
I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.
agriculture people helping
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
problem fast-food-nation fast-food
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
oil tuesday gone
If Ive gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then Im really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. Its effortless.
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