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I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Back Change Connected Food Get Know Never Once People Real

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It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Around Food Learn Ourselves Preparation Table World

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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.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Buying Day Everywhere Existed Fell First Food French Fresh Fresh Food Love Markets Obsession Often Paris Restaurants Small Then Twice Twice A Day Well

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My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Above Around Beauty Dishes Including Kitchen Large Lot Needs Oven Sink Think Washing Whoever Windows I Think

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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.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Been Everything House Land Landscape Nation Nonstop Nourishment Says Stewardship Symbolism Talking Think White White House I Think

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I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in the summer. They were extraordinary.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Affair Childhood Corn Extraordinary Had Love Love Affair Only Remember Summer Them Tomatoes Were I Remember

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Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Cheap Feeding Food Good People Really Something Them You

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If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Elite Everyone Francisco Going Natural Natural Resources Preserve Resources San San Francisco Society Something Sustainable You

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The fact that most kids aren't eating at home with their families any more really means they are eating elsewhere. They are eating out there in fast food nation.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Any Eating Elsewhere Fact Families Fast Fast Food Food Home Kids Means More Most Nation Out Really

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I am disappointed because nobody is talking about food and agriculture. They're talking about the diets of children, but they're talking about Band-Aids. We're not seeing a vision.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Agriculture Am Because Children Diets Disappointed Food Nobody Seeing Talking Vision I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: April 28th, 1944

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