History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular. — 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
“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
The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have… — 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 Roman army required salt for its soldiers and for its horses and livestock. At times soldiers were even paid in salt,… — 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
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
“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
“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
