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
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn. — 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
modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt. — 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
'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that… — 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
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
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and… — 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 are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.' — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
What you seem to find when you get into this biography business is that people tend to have an image of themselves… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable. — 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
