I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that. - Alice Waters 1 Share Now -
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity. - Alice Waters 2 Share Now -
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone. - Alice Waters 3 Share Now -
I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. - Alice Waters 4 Share Now -
The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook. - Alice Waters 5 Share Now -
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative. - Alice Waters 6 Share Now -
I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry. - Alice Waters 7 Share Now -
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me. - Alice Waters 8 Share Now -
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture. - Alice Waters 9 Share Now -
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. - Alice Waters 10 Share Now -
