American - Chef | April 28, 1944 -
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
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We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
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When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
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You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers' market, it's already been investigated.
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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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The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
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It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
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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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Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
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I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
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Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.
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We eat every day, and if we do it in a way that doesn't recognize value, it's contributing to the destruction of our culture and of agriculture. But if it's done with a focus and care, it can be a wonderful thing. It changes the quality of your life.
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