Mark Kurlansky
"As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale."
Mark Kurlansky
"Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world."
Mark Kurlansky
"What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility."
Mark Kurlansky
"A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance."
Mark Kurlansky
"I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation."
Mark Kurlansky
"People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'"
Mark Kurlansky
"There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about."
Mark Kurlansky
"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
"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 always wanted an extraordinary life. When it's over, I want to be able to say that I did it."
Mark Kurlansky
"When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry."
Mark Kurlansky
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