A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.
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Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
United States · b. 1944
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American chef who opened the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. She founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, has written more than a dozen books including We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto, and is a vice-president of Slow Food International.
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I believe that that is a fast-food myth to get us out there buying whatever they’re selling because I know that beans and greens are very, very affordable.
There’s no such thing as cheap food. It can be affordable, but it can never be cheap. I think that’s something we’ve been indoctrinated by fast food culture to believe, that it can be cheap – that it can be fast, cheap, and easy. But every culture since the beginning of time has thought of food as something precious, and that’s the way I think about it. I want to give my money to the people who take care of the land, and who grow that food.
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