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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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Topics: Agriculture Bring Children Connects Culture Food New Relationship Them

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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.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Agriculture Care Changes Contributing Culture Day Destruction Done Eat Every Every Day Focus Life Our Quality Recognize Thing Value Way Wonderful Wonderful Thing Your

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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

Topics: Agriculture Culture Feel Food Help Help People Obligation People Relation Relationship Understand I Feel

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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

Topics: About Because Biodiversity Came Dairy Farmers Feel Fell Fisherman Food Local Looking Love Organic People Sustainability Sustainable Taste Tastes Way I Feel I Came

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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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Topics: Always Came Cheap Connection Easy Everything Fast Fast Food Food Lack More Much Paid Preparing Seasons Set Should Uniformity Values Very Where Whole You

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

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I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Deserves Elitist Everybody Feel Food Good Good Food Needs Pesticides Privilege Right Should Without I Feel

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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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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.

~Alice Waters

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: April 28th, 1944

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