Quotes About Mark Kurlansky

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book about meat called 'Meathooked.'

I started writing 'Cod' at a time when people were first beginning to take an interest in the problem of fisheries because the Grand Banks had closed.

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

Massachusetts had elevated cod from commodity to fetish.

His 1831 wood-block series, "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji," is the world's most famous work of ukiyo-e, and one of these prints in particular, The Great Wave of Kanagawa, is one of the most famous works of Japanese art.

notes he made in his mirror-image script—a curious response to being left-handed.

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food just as food. Just like I would never write about baseball just as baseball.