{"quotes":[{"text":"Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket.","author":"Dana Pollan","tags":["cooking","cooks","dana-pollan","food","foodie","healthyeating","homecookng","ingredients","pollanfamilytable","recipes"],"id":11030,"author_id":"Dana+Pollan"},{"text":"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anorexia","anorexic","aphorism","aphorisms","appetite","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","body-mass-index","cheat-day","cheat-days","clean","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","dietician","dieticians","dietitian","dietitians","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","fat","fatty","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","health","healthy","hose","humor","humorous","humour","ingredient","ingredients","insightful","lean","lose-weight","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mud","muscles","muscular","necessary","necessity","obese","obesity","overeat","overeater","overeating","overweight","philosopher","pig","pigs","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","recipe","recipes","roll","rolling","salad","salads","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","skinny","south-africa","south-african","spotless","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight","watch-what-you-eat","weight","weight-loss","weight-to-height","weightlifter","weightlifting","workout"],"id":45938,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.","author":"Lori Pollan","tags":["art","cooking","cooks","food","foodie","healthyeating","homecookng","ingredients","lori-pollan","pollanfamilytable","recipes"],"id":60334,"author_id":"Lori+Pollan"},{"text":"If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.","author":"Linda Henley","tags":["cooking","god","grandmothers","recipes"],"id":108223,"author_id":"Linda+Henley"},{"text":"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","childish","children","cook","cooking","dead","death","dish","dishes","drink","eat","feed","food","immature","immaturity","mature","maturity","meal","meals","nourish","nourishment","nutrition","please","recipes","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","tongue","vitamins"],"id":115405,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"It's never too late to start eating right.","author":"Elle Meyer","tags":["dieting","healthy-living","recipes","weight-management"],"id":122064,"author_id":"Elle+Meyer"},{"text":"No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is.","author":"Corky Pollan","tags":["cooking","cooks","corky-pollan","food","foodie","healthyeating","homecookng","ingredients","pollanfamilytable","recipes"],"id":136264,"author_id":"Corky+Pollan"},{"text":"To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.","author":"Sarah Weeks","tags":["cooking","dedication","eating","food","foodie","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","readers","recipes","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":158750,"author_id":"Sarah+Weeks"},{"text":"Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death.","author":"Héctor Abad Faciolince","tags":["death","fear","immortality","recipes"],"id":243447,"author_id":"H%C3%A9ctor+Abad+Faciolince"},{"text":"I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.","author":"Tracy Pollan","tags":["cooking","cooks","food","foodie","healthyeating","homecookng","ingredients","kitchen","mother","pollanfamilytable","recipes","tracy-pollan"],"id":260696,"author_id":"Tracy+Pollan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}