Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
