Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

- Mark Kurlansky

The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.

- Mark Kurlansky

In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable …

- Mark Kurlansky

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

- Mark Kurlansky

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

- Mark Kurlansky

In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are al…

- Mark Kurlansky

modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.

- Mark Kurlansky

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

- Mark Kurlansky

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not al…

- Mark Kurlansky