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American
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Journalist
Born:
December 7
, 1948
People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
Mark Kurlansky
Me
Food
I Am
People
It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
Mark Kurlansky
Food
You
Travel
Easy
By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.
Mark Kurlansky
Food
People
Agriculture
Process
Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.
Mark Kurlansky
Civilization
Changed
Our
For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try a lot of different kinds of things. The more you try, the more experiences you have.
Mark Kurlansky
Best
Food
Fear
You
There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.
Mark Kurlansky
Life
Time
People
Care
Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
Mark Kurlansky
Money
Sugar
Misery
Little
Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
Mark Kurlansky
Try
Beat
Baseball
American
When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.
Mark Kurlansky
Black
Great
Skin
Color
It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.
Mark Kurlansky
Fish
Know
Done
Hunting
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
Mark Kurlansky
Change
Age
I Am
People
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
Mark Kurlansky
Survival
Never
Writing
Through
I'm friends with Studs Terkel.
Mark Kurlansky
Friends
I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.
Mark Kurlansky
Life
Want
Say
Always
I'm interested in most everything.
Mark Kurlansky
Everything
Interested
Most
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important food issue is how to feed the poor or the hardworking middle class.
Mark Kurlansky
Food
World
Rich
Important
I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
Mark Kurlansky
Me
Adventure
College
Real
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
Mark Kurlansky
Wine
Geography
Flavor
Affects
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
Mark Kurlansky
You
Wind
Pastry
Up
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.
Mark Kurlansky
History
Architecture
Revolution
True
The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted.
Mark Kurlansky
Home
Television
End
Movies
I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal.
Mark Kurlansky
Best
Me
Food
Book
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.
Mark Kurlansky
History
Food
World
Everyone
Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam.
Mark Kurlansky
God
People
Islam
Thought
I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.
Mark Kurlansky
Theatre
Started
Off
Playwright
I don't do much research on the Internet.
Mark Kurlansky
Research
Internet
Much
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