Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float…are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.' — 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
“Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish.… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The hams of Westphalia, which were dried, salted, and then smoked with unique local woods—a recipe still followed today in Westphalia—were very… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“In the first century A.D., Pliny estimated that the average Roman citizen consumed only 25 grams of salt a day. The modern… — 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 entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“It became a requirement of prosciutto di Parma that it be made from pigs that had been fed the whey from Parmesan… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he… — 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
People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind… — 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
“In 1411, the French Crown granted a patent declaring that only the cheese of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon could be called Roquefort cheese.” — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from forty grams a day per person… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Pastrami, of Romanian origin, is dried, spiced, and salted beef, smoked over hardwood sawdust and then steamed. The name may come from… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people… — 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
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and… — 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 Image
“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 Image
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 mania that… — 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 just as… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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