{"quotes":[{"text":"It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to disappear, in times of war, which is probably why they should not be forgotten in times of peace.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["eating","food","peace","potatoes","war"],"id":1494,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.","author":"Louisa May Alcott","tags":["evil","potatoes","without "],"id":117808,"author_id":"Louisa+May+Alcott"},{"text":"Vegetables cooked for salads should always be on the crisp side, like those trays of zucchini and slender green beans and cauliflowerets in every trattoria in Venice, in the days when the Italians could eat correctly. You used to choose the things you wanted: there were tiny potatoes in their skins, remember, and artichokes boiled in olive oil, as big as your thumb, and much tenderer...And then the waiter would throw them all into an ugly white bowl and splash a little oil and vinegar over them, and you would have a salad as fresh and tonic to your several senses as La Primavera. It can still be done, although never in the same typhoidic and enraptured air. You can still find little fresh vegetables, and still know how to cook them until they are not quite done, and chill them, and eat them in a bowl.","author":"M.F.K. Fisher","tags":["cauliflower","cooking","food","green-beans","italy","potatoes","vegetables","zucchini"],"id":197755,"author_id":"M.F.K.+Fisher"},{"text":"While we’re at it, why don’t we add a third emotion to this list: lust. You are probably unaware that Linnaeus lumped the tomato into the same genus as the potato, a food with a reputation for its widespread availability and easy satisfaction of oral needs.","author":"Benson Bruno","tags":["funny","lust","potatoes","tomatoes"],"id":268142,"author_id":"Benson+Bruno"},{"text":"Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.","author":"Dolly Parton","tags":["single","potatoes","gravy "],"id":269183,"author_id":"Dolly+Parton"},{"text":"Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?'Po-ta-toes!' said Sam.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["food","potatoes","smeagol","tolkien"],"id":291743,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Kids in aprons appeared, putting tureens of vegetable soup on the tables and plates of boiled eggs, potatoes and lentils, bowls of endive-and-radish salad, small rounds of cheese and loaves of brown bread, all looking quite delicious, in Zoe's opinion.","author":"Christine Brodien-Jones","tags":["boiled-eggs","brown-bread","cheese","delicious","food","potatoes","salad","vegetable-soup"],"id":329258,"author_id":"Christine+Brodien-Jones"},{"text":"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.","author":"Alan Watts","tags":["thinking","potatoes","zen "],"id":341808,"author_id":"Alan+Watts"},{"text":"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.","author":"A.A. Milne","tags":["character","food","potatoes"],"id":426817,"author_id":"A.A.+Milne"},{"text":"In a lot of ways that poor little potato' – Evan pointed directly at Jade’s French fries – 'symbolizes the reckless consumerism that plagues America.","author":"Francine Pascal","tags":["america","consumerism","french-fries","potatoes","sweet-valley"],"id":427498,"author_id":"Francine+Pascal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}