“To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put i...” — Michael Pollan Quote

“To eat well, you either have to invest money or time. If you can put in some time, the raw ingredients are not that expensive. You can eat extremely well on a budget.”

“My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.”

“The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.”

“This IRA, this Inflation Reduction Act, which is Orwellian named, is a doomsday machine for the federal budget.”

“Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.”

“Professionally, my first book came out at the age of 29, where I wrote about my experiences of backpacking in U.S. on a frugal budget.”