Fate likes to tease paranoids.' Mark Kurlansky More Quotes by Mark Kurlansky More Quotes From Mark Kurlansky A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating. Mark Kurlansky gourmet judging food A Wedding In Haiti is a great experience and its unaffected prose is as true a portrait of complex Haiti as you will find. Mark Kurlansky great-experiences haiti portraits I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one. Mark Kurlansky great love history people Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. Mark Kurlansky city romantic history world The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems. Mark Kurlansky problems things always environmental Environmentalists aren't nearly sensitive enough to the fact that they are messing around with struggling people and their livelihoods. They forget that the fishermen are the people with the most immediate vested interest in having a healthy sea. Mark Kurlansky enough sea forget people Cheap fish has usually been caught in careless ways. Mark Kurlansky cheap fish careless caught 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 face love romantic people One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War. Mark Kurlansky i-am things proud war The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer. Mark Kurlansky fish never bad good Beware of fish that is very inexpensive. Mark Kurlansky beware fish very inexpensive The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball, and many believe catcher Josh Gibson was a better hitter than Babe Ruth. Mark Kurlansky better best believe history 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 fish good quality fishing Don't forget the Vietnam War was brought to us by Democrats. Mark Kurlansky us vietnam-war forget war 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. Mark Kurlansky someone job boat strong Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else. Mark Kurlansky best food history way Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time. Mark Kurlansky building technology fishing time The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media. Mark Kurlansky everyone impact media war Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence. Mark Kurlansky more always resolve violence I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch. Mark Kurlansky pink dinner sunday lunch