"Food is a central activity of mankind and……" — Mark Kurlansky
"Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture."
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17 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky has 17 quotes on this site.
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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 Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti…
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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 Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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