Top 90 Quotes by Alice Waters

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.

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.

When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

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

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.

Everything tastes better with butter. Meat that has fat in it is tender in a certain way, flavorful in a certain way. It's hard to deny the flavor quotient there.

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 don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.