“In terms of kids not liking the food, I am shocked. I know that it's not true. I know that when kids are not educated about healthy food, they have a resistance to it. The resistance comes, again, from the fast-food culture.” KidsCultureTermHealthyEducatedHealthy Food Author:Alice Waters
“The biggest thing right now, is supporting the people who take care of the environment. We must take care of the people who take care of the land. And so, if 20% of the population is in school, and they are asked to buy this food from farms. I mean at the real cost without a middleman, it could be amazing. It could change farming overnight.” PeopleMeanRealCareSchoolEnvironmentTake CareFarming Author:Alice Waters
“We still need to learn how to talk about food and education, because they haven't been talked about together, really. Education depends on our good health. It depends on our understanding of the environment and somehow we got those separate.” TogetherUnderstandingEnvironmentGood Health Author:Alice Waters
“If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.” ThinkingGivingMeanChildrenSchoolOpportunityStudentsCookingDemocraticEmpoweringEducatePublic SchoolCountyKindergartenSchool Lunch Author:Alice Waters
“We're, as Carlos Petrini says, we're on a train and it's going off the edge of the cliff. We have to stop the track and get off. Now we're in a jungle. We don't know how we're going to get out but we'll find a way. I've always believed in people power. I saw it happen when we organized around the AIDS crisis... We made an AIDS quilt that covered the entire mall. Everybody had a part in it and we can do this.” PeopleCrisisTrainTrackAidsJungleAlways Believe Author:Alice Waters
“The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities together.” TogetherCommunityOur FamilyRiteFamily Together Author:Alice Waters
“It's a pleasure to talk to the farmers. That's my favorite part, always was. It's really the communication and exchange that builds communities. It's not something you can legislate. It's that you're giving me the best bread I ever had and I'm so happy to give you money for it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do than stand in line and give money for your bread.” ThinkingGivingCommunityPleasureCommunicationMy FavoriteFarmers Author:Alice Waters
“What I love the most that I really want to talk about is that there are women in business. They are incredibly focused on creating their own businesses and going out there. That's going to be their life, whether they have kids or not. And then there are women who have children that kind of nobly say, "You know what? I'm going to be a mom, and that's going to be my work and my love of my life." Which to me, is just as ambitious of a job and a journey.” KindChildrenKidsJourneyMomFocusedAmbitiousOwn BusinessLove Of My LifeBusiness Woman Author:Kate Hudson
“Technology allows us to weed out a lot of the extraneous circumstances that can happen in certain environments. If you have an opportunity to say, "I'm going to be in charge of my own narrative. I'm going to be the one who sees that this is OK for me," like anything else, it just gives you a position of feeling like you can be in charge of those things.” GivingFeelingsOpportunityTechnologyEnvironmentLike YouCircumstancesWeed Author:Kate Hudson
“The dialogue is out there, the veil has been lifted. We all know that there's a ways to go. We're still fighting uphill battles, and you just have to hone in on making change, one dialogue at a time, one course of action at a time.” ActionFightingBattleDialogueMaking Changes Author:Kate Hudson