Alice Waters

“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.”

“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.”

“Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it’s important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well – a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.”

“Food isn’t like anything else. It’s something precious. It’s not a commodity.”

“The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.”

“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.”

“I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.”

“We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.”