Quotes from Alice Waters

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.

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.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.

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.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

Let things taste of what they are.

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

Let things taste the way they are.

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.