Alice Waters Quotes

I`m glad it`s a woman. It can`t be anything but encouraging to people to have someone at the top, particularly from another country. That particularly makes a beautiful statement that someone has succeeded to the extent that they represent the president.

She has influenced all of us.

There aren`t many big ideas about how to solve the problems,

I`m always going back to Elizabeth David. I continue to be a fan. I can read and reread and find something important in there.

Every change ultimately is one for the better. You don`t know how it is going to be. It is just shuffling the cards, and people who haven`t revealed themselves might reveal themselves.

Kids come into the classroom and it`s very hands-on, ... Kids like this. After phys ed, it`s their favorite class.

Papayas should never be refrigerated.

Edna Lewis had the hands and soul of a great artist, and like all great artists, she had something of which the rest of us know little or nothing.

I think she`s really up there at the top. It happens only when somebody is very non-compromising and when somebody is attending to all the details and learning about all the changes in food. The way she has incorporated organic ingredients into her standard repertoire, she is somebody who is keeping up on what`s important and getting better at doing it.

(In Berkeley, Waters was thrilled to have Charles draw attention to the Edible Schoolyard, her creation.) It`s great to have a prince supporting an environmental movement, ... We don`t have one. We need a prince. We need money.