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“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.”
“It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.”
“There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.”
“The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.”
“Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.”
“Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou”
“I'm an urban person.”
“Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.”
“Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.”
“I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.”
“I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families.”
“Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.”
“I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.”
“As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.”