"When I got back from France ....I wanted hot baguettes in the morning, and apricot jam, and café au lait in bowls, and I wanted a café to hang out in, in the afternoon, and I wanted civilized meals, and I wanted to wear French clothes. The cultural experience, that aesthetic, that paying attention to every little detail — I wanted to live my life like that." 

-Alice Waters as told to Thomas McNamee in an interview

 for his biography Alice Waters and Chez Panisse