American - Chef | April 28, 1944 -
I wanted people to come to the restaurant and feel at home, so I put it in a house.
Alice Waters
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I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.
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I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.
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I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.
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Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
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I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.
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The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
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When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.
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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.
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Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
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If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
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