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. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Children ask questions much more than adults do, and you have to wonder if this is something we have that we lose. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Cod’ was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Food is interesting to me because it’s a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
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. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
In the course of my research, I’ve read a lot of incredibly bad books – mostly by academics. I’m puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
