“The nature of the precious liquid from which purple came would not be entirely understood for another two millennia. In 1826, a… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it… — 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
“It turned out that salt was a microcosm for one of the oldest concepts of nature and the order of the universe.… — 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
“There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is… — 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
