Quotes About Alice Waters

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.

As a student of Alice Waters, the patron saint of salad, I'm no stranger to the art of lettuce washing.

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.

These crabs, Paige explained, weren't ordinary civilian crabs, but rock 'n' roll royalty crabs, having been passed, via groupies, from the Rolling Stones to Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses, for decades. It made her feel connected to something larger, a part of history. 'Like those sourdough starts that were so popular in the seventies,' I said. 'Mine was supposedly a direct descendant of one that Alice Waters started in Berkeley.

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.

The Art of Simple Food by Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters lined

I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.