A Quote by Mark Kurlansky

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

Mark Kurlansky

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Mark Kurlansky
American - Journalist
Born: December 7, 1948

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

Mark Kurlansky

I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.

Joanna Lumley

Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Hedrick Smith

If you're making a salad of any kind, cut the herbs, stems and all, and toss them into your mixed greens salad, a Romaine salad, iceberg, Bibb - it just adds a special touch.

Alex Guarnaschelli

What I really like is this salted calamari - with jalapenos on top.

Mary Gauthier

Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

Ruta Sepetys

If you ever had your moon salted you'd know how painful that could be.

Bobby Heenan

Two peanuts walk into a rather rough bar, not looking for any trouble. Unfortunately, one was a salted.

Tommy Cooper

I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

Ed Oxenbould

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

Terry Pratchett

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Hedda Hopper

Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Brett Hoebel

If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.