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One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.

~Mark Kurlansky

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Everyone always gets a little irritated by imitators, but mostly I'm flattered. What if you never did anything anyone wanted to copy?

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Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.

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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.

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The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

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Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

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The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 7th, 1948

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