Mark Kurlansky Quotes
Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.
Mark Kurlansky
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Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
Kandyse McClure
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
Carla Hall
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A potlatch is similar to a court case in that both are prohibitively expensive; both involve lengthy speeches and the vigorous examination and debate of the actions, rights and legal responsibilities of the participants. One has food, singing and spiritual rites; the other, not so much.
Eden Robinson
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From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
Daniel Boulud
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Fly-in, fly-out curating nearly always produces superficial results; it's a practice that goes hand in hand with the fashion for applying the word 'curating' to everything that involves simply making a choice - radio playlists, hotel decor, even the food stalls in New York's High Line Park.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Food can change anything.
Laura Esquivel
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M. F. K. Fisher
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I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.
Gabriel Iglesias
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Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Tammy Duckworth
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson
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That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
Omari Hardwick
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
Daniel Boulud
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I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.
Laura Dern
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
Vanessa Bayer
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I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
Ted Allen
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The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
Warren Rudman
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
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Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do not blame my mother for a second that they were not on tap in hers, either.
Emily Oster
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lu Xun
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Dignified and respectful quietude speaks much louder than pomp and circumstance when it comes to remembering those who died.
Alan Colmes
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I didn't have drama in high school. So when I graduated high school and started at Wayne State in Detroit, I told my parents I was going to major in theater. And they were like, 'OK. Why? You've never done it.' But, it was just what I wanted, and they came to see my very first show and, from then, completely supported me.
Deborah Joy Winans
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Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.
Mark Kurlansky
