{"author":"Michael Pollan","author_id":"Michael+Pollan","total_quotes":142,"quotes":[{"text":"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["diet","eating","food","omnivore","plants"],"id":3168,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. P.187.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["food","nutrition"],"id":4324,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["cooking","food","love"],"id":8396,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"That anyone should need to write a book advising people to 'eat food' could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["food","nutrition"],"id":12243,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["food"],"id":12844,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["environmental","people","slow "],"id":16462,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift \u0026 Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["food","meatpacking"],"id":17361,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["nature"],"id":26022,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["irony"],"id":29683,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. (“Hard” cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.).","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["alcohol","apple","cider","history"],"id":33173,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":142,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}