Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“And so you have more opportunities and more responsibilities than any other generation in history.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A superpower that no longer stands for anything, that no one believes in anymore, that is seen only as a bully, will… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The Roman historian Plutarch estimated that the civilized Romans under Julius Caesar, in his decade-long campaign in Gaul, destroyed 800 towns and… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Even the name, Celt, is not from their own Indo-European language but from Greek. Keltoi, the name given to them by Greek… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
“For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
“It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
“The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share
