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Mark Kurlansky

American Journalist

Born: Dec 7, 1948

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I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated. Mark Kurlansky

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Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer. Mark Kurlansky

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I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation. Mark Kurlansky

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I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. Mark Kurlansky

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

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Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money. Mark Kurlansky

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I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books. Mark Kurlansky

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I'm friends with Studs Terkel. Mark Kurlansky

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I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me. Mark Kurlansky

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When you're in theater, you inevitably wind up working in restaurants. I made pastry. Mark Kurlansky

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The invention of gas and electric heaters has not meant the end of fireplaces. Printing did not end penmanship, television did not kill radio, movies did not kill theatre, and home videos did not kill movie theaters, although all these things were falsely predicted. Mark Kurlansky

I always wanted to write a book about a common food that becomes a commercial commodity and therefore becomes economically important and therefore becomes politically important and culturally important. That whole process is very interesting to me. And salt seemed to me the best example of that, partly because it's universal. Mark Kurlansky

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There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed. Mark Kurlansky

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Things that become important to economies become ritualized and become deified. Because I'm Jewish, I always thought it was interesting that in Judaism, salt seals a bargain, particularly the covenant with God. Some people, when they bless bread, they dip it in salt. Same thing exists in Islam. Mark Kurlansky

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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on. Mark Kurlansky

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