There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something -… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the… — 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
