Kurlansky Cod Quotes

#1. If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod ... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

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#2. Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.

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#3. In 1352, Ibn Batuta, the greatest Arab-language traveler of the Middle Ages, who had journeyed overland across Africa, Europe, and Asia, reported visiting the city of Taghaza, which, he said, was entirely built of salt, including an elaborate mosque.

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#4. In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

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#5. Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

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#6. Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

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#7. Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest

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#8. It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals.

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#9. softness overcomes hardness.

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#10. In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being soft on Basques.

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#11. Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

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#12. And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.

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#13. No one ever escapes Gloucester. Kids go off to college and settle somewhere else. But they always come back. If Gloucester is all you know, every place else seems a little phony.

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#14. Europeans started wearing linen underwear instead of wool. There is no record indicating that this made the Europeans less irritable, but it did make a lot more rags available.

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#15. nonviolent force is a moral argument. The lesson is that if the nonviolent side can be led to violence, they have lost the argument and they are destroyed.

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

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#17. Proteins unwind when exposed to heat, and they do the same when exposed to salt. So salting has an effect resembling cooking.

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#18. Theoretically, pickling can be accomplished without salt, but the carbohydrates and proteins in the vegetables tend to putrefy too quickly to be saved by the emerging lactic acid. Without salt, yeast forms, and the fermentation process leads to alcohol rather than pickles.

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#19. The indigenous people of five continents were facing an intractable enemy from a sixth continent that was convinced that they had the right to steal the land on other

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#20. Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

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#21. The first pan-European peace organization was established in Geneva in 1830, but

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#22. In eighteenth-century England, anchovy sauce became known as ketchup, katchup, or catsup.

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#23. A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

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#24. History's greatest lessons is that once the state embraces a religion, the nature of that religion changes radically. It loses its nonviolent component

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#25. The adversary must first be made into a demon before people will accept the war. This was why during the Cold War, the U.S. government became infuriated at any

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#26. Cherokee faction of fewer than 500 people in a nation of 17,000 who were agreeable to removal.

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#27. ENEMIES OFTEN become mirror images of each other.

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#28. The Roman historian Plutarch estimated that the civilized Romans under Julius Caesar, in his decade-long campaign in Gaul, destroyed 800 towns and villages and enslaved 3 million people.

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#29. Herzl had said that attracting the Jewish diaspora would be a slow process, but after a half century as a nation, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, only 17 percent of American Jews have ever visited Israel.

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#30. Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.

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#31. It takes two years for the salt to reach the center of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

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#32. THE ROMANS SALTED their greens, believing this to counteract the natural bitterness, which is the origin of the word salad, salted.

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