American - Journalist | December 7, 1948 -
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
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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.
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By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.
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Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.
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For some reason, some kids have a fear of food. Some adults do, too. The best cure for that is to try a lot of different kinds of things. The more you try, the more experiences you have.
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There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.
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Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.
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Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and even the already highly skilled Cubans greatly improved their baseball skills when occupied by U.S. troops. The only acceptable resistance to a hated American presence was to try to beat them in baseball games.
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