The revolution in the world
food's system has to take place through education in schools,
Californian chef and food activist Alice Waters told a group of
farmers from around the world Wednesday at the Young Mother
Earth four-day meeting organised by Slow Food at Expo Milan.
Waters cautioned that "when people eat fast food they also
digest the values of that kind of feeding and absorb the concept
that food must necessarily be the same, from Berlin to Nairobi,
always available at low cost".
"Instead while remaining at a reasonable price food must
never cost too little because it has always been a precious
good".
Waters, who recently received a National Humanities Award
from President Obama for her commitment to diet education,
recounted how she opened her restaurant Chez Panisse in the
1970s and created with Martin Luther King Jr in 1995 The Edible
Schoolyard,a big school vegetable garden.
"Through cultivation students learn to feed themselves
well, to cook and to experiment academic disciplines
practically," Waters said.
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