Mark Kurlansky Quotes

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• Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
• In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
• THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
• The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,
• A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
• A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it.…
• Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from…
• Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It…
• The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
• In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain…
• I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a…
• A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
• Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the…
• Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen,…
• In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for…
• modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
• Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs…

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