Alice Waters on eco-gastronomy

from The World According to Alice Waters, an interview by Ritzy Ryciak, Conscious Choice

“What question do you wish our readers would ask themselves?

Why wouldn’t you want to spend most of your money on food? Food is nourishment and good health. It is the most important thing in life, really. Why would you resist that and want to buy a cell phone instead? Why would you expect that food would be cheap? Why shouldn’t those who provide it be paid the most amount of money? They are the people who are feeding you.

We need a course in school, an academic subject in eco-gastronomy, as a requirement that every child has to take for credit. I think we all need to become eco-gastronomes. Gastronomy is the big subject of food from all points of view. It’s every subject, from botany to anatomy to history. We begin in kindergarten, and we do it all the way through college — and the [school] garden and the lunchhour become the labs of eco-gastronomy. We’ll make it delicious! That’s the good news, it’s a really tasty course.

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