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Mark Kurlansky
Profession : Journalist
Birth : December 7, 1948
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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
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
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
There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.
Mark Kurlansky
Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
Mark Kurlansky
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
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
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
Mark Kurlansky
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
Mark Kurlansky
I'm friends with Studs Terkel.
Mark Kurlansky
I always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it.
Mark Kurlansky
I'm interested in most everything.
Mark Kurlansky
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
Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.
Mark Kurlansky
I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
Mark Kurlansky
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
Mark Kurlansky
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
Mark Kurlansky
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
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
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
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