Mark Kurlansky Quotes
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The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth.
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I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
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Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.
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Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.
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One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world.
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You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
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I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
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The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.
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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.
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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.
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I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
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Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
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Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
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People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.
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Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
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I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
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What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.
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I'm interested in most everything.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
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I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
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I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.
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Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.
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In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being 'soft on Basques.'
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Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.