225 Quotes by Mark Kurlansky

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.

When I was a kid, we had this great advantage of there being no YA books. You read kid books and then went on to adult books. When I was 12 or 13, I read all of Steinbeck and Hemingway. I thought I should read everything a writer writes.

I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families.

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.

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'

I get up very early and write a lot.

It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.