Alice Waters

“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.” 

  ― Alice Waters, The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution

A Garden and Books

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."  - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Roots

"Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? “    
The words of the Roman, Marcus Tullius Cicero circa 50 BC