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My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Care Emphasis Farmers Land Nourishment Our Real Really Taking Thinking Who

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We have to understand that we want to pay the farmers the real price for the food that they produce. It won't ever be cheap to buy real food. But it can be affordable. It's really something that we need to understand. It's the kind of work that it takes to grow food. We don't understand that piece of it.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Affordable Buy Cheap Ever Farmers Food Grow Kind Need Pay Piece Price Produce Real Really Something Takes Understand Want Work

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I once had an Early Girl tomato at my friend Jay's house, and I thought that was the best thing I'd ever had. But then I visited friends in Senegal, and I ate sea urchin pulled fresh out of the sea. It tasted like the ocean.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Ate Best Early Ever Fresh Friend Friends Girl Had House Jay Like My Friend Ocean Once Out Pulled Sea Tasted Then Thing Thought Tomato Visited

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I was a very picky eater.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Eater Picky Very

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A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Connection Equipment Feeling Food Get Lot Touching Way

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In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Been Berkeley Built Classroom Cook Eat Garden Grow Kids Kitchen Learned Lot Working Years

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Buy foods from nearby farms and have that food served in the cafeteria.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Buy Farms Food Foods Nearby Served

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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.

~Alice Waters

Topics: America Child Delicious Eat Every Free Lunch School Want

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English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.

~Alice Waters

Topics: About Author Cook David Elizabeth English Food Inspired Owner Really Richard Think Way Writer I Think

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I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

~Alice Waters

Topics: American Come Down Food Hope Important Just Manipulated Nation Nourishment Our Physical Something Spiritual Teeth Understand Well-Being

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Chef

Born: April 28th, 1944

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