Zitat des Tages von Alice Waters:
It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.
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.
People have become aware that way that we've been eating is making us sick.
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.
My mother made a lot of things because she thought they'd be healthy for us. There were some very unfortunate experiences with whole wheat bread and bananas. I always tried to get rid of that sandwich and eat one of my friends' lunches.
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.
I guess I don't really believe in retirement. I believe in shorter days and maybe in weekends!
In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
Usually, cheap food is not nutritious. You're feeding people, but you're not really feeding people something that is good for them.
If I've gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I'm really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It's effortless.
Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
I believe there should be breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack, all for free and for every child that goes to school. And all food that is good, clean and fair.
I think you have to plan ahead. When I go to the market on a Saturday, and I'm buying for family and friends, I'm thinking about what I'm going to eat on the weekend but also about what I'm going to make for the following week.
When you don't have much money, cooking can be incredibly reassuring. You feel like you're doing meaningful work.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
I eat meat, but no meat that isn't pastured is acceptable, and we probably need to eat a whole lot less.
Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
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.
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.
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.
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
We make decisions every day about what we're going to eat. And some people want to buy Nike shoes - two pairs, and other people want to eat Bronx grapes and nourish themselves. I pay a little extra, but this is what I want to do.
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.
The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.
Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
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.
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.
We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
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.
I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.