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“I had wanted to know what it would be like to be human. I knew it now. It made me want to die.”
― Anton Hur, Toward Eternity

“As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology. That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new, and I think, destructive idea. Destructive not just of the pleasure of eating which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”
― Michael Pollan

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto