Quotes by Alice Waters

The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time youre going to the grocery store, youre voting with your dollars. Support your farmers market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think its 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.

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.

Food isnt like anything else. Its something precious. Its not a commodity.

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I dont know if you consider that a real restaurant.

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, its already been investigated.

The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.

If we dont preserve the natural resources, you arent going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. Its for everyone.