November 22, 2009
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A Healthy, Happy Planet Starts at the Dinner Table

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May/June 2002
by Alice Waters 
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But perhaps our greatest challenge is working to get our kids to join us at the dinner table. I am convinced that teaching children to eat food together is the best way to teach them to open up their senses and use them. If children learn to use their senses, it will improve their ability to communicate—not just about food, but about everything else. And they will grow up to be wiser, happier people.

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If all of us were to encourage our local schools to start programs in gardening and eating, we could have an impact. Kids have to be taught that fresh, nourishing food is their birthright—that all Americans, not just the rich, are entitled to wholesome, honest food.

Alice Waters revolutionized American food with her Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley and her cookbooks, which emphasize fresh local ingredients. She founded the Edible Schoolyard project, which teaches Berkeley public school kids about food issues (see 'The Edible Schoolyard,' Utne Reader, Nov./Dec. 2000, or www.edibleschoolyard.org; 510/558-1335). Adapted from Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture (Island Press, 2002).

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