"A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience……" — Mark Kurlansky
"A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find."
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17 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky
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Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
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In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar,
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THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad,…
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The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt,
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A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and…
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Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to…
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Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and…
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The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American…
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In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of…
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I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in…
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A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
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Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that…
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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
— Anita Baker
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
— Sarah Brightman
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
— Warren Buffett
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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