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“I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea and completely forget that they live by the sea, and I suggest that this happened when they lost their oysters.”

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“A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered…

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“The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.”

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When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.

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“For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings…

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I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book…

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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…

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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…

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THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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