It’s true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In ‘A Chosen Few,’ I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
When you’re in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true. Mark Kurlansky Read Quote
