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I'm an urban person.
Fate likes to tease paranoids.'
Beware of fish that is very inexpensive.
Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways.
I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.
Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats.
Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
The history of the Americas is one of constant warfare over salt.
Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.
Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.
modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry.
Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.
'Cod' was a great story. It let me talk about the environment without putting people to sleep.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.
One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.
History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.
Adults have pretty much made up their minds - they like you to the extent that you confirm what they already believe.
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.
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.
A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find.
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.
THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.
I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary critics.
I'd done occasional short stories, but I don't like publishing them in literary magazines; they treat you too much like college boys.
Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
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.
Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really admire.
Europeans are far more anti-war than Americans. They've had more wars, and they really just don't believe in it any more. But Americans do.
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.
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.
My most memorable job was on a lobster boat. I was a pretty strong kid, and they just needed someone who could haul pots on 200 ft. of line.