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American - Journalist Born: December 7, 1948

People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'

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.

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.

Food People Agriculture Process

Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.

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.

Best Food Fear You

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

Life Time People Care

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Change Age I Am People

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

Survival Never Writing Through

I'm friends with Studs Terkel.

I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.

Life Want Say Always

I'm interested in most everything.

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.

Food World Rich Important

I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.

Me Adventure College Real

As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.

Wine Geography Flavor Affects

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

God People Islam Thought

I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.

Theatre Started Off Playwright

I don't do much research on the Internet.

Research Internet Much

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