Mark Bittman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's obvious to everyone somehow except for us.
Well, hopefully this November we'll
take us somewhere.
I'll tell you that I assume you can edit out anything you want to.
So I have this cartoon sitting on my desk where this fortune teller is sitting with Donald Trump and she goes, the day you die will be a national holiday.
And he goes, well, that's really cool.
What national holiday?
And she says, any day you die will be a national
I wanted to write.
I was doing community organizing when I was in my 20s, and someone said, do you want to work on our newspaper?
We had a little organization in Boston doing community organizing, and someone said, do you want to work on the newspaper?
And I said, yeah.
And she basically said, okay, because I'm quitting, and then I was running this little newspaper.
got to write.
I also learned how to edit and type and do photos and all of that.
And then when it became time to try to, quote unquote, become a writer, I didn't really have a topic, but I was cooking a lot and I tried writing about food and it worked.
But it certainly was not a plan.
And there was no plan.
Well, I guess I have to preface this by saying modesty aside, but I'll try to retain a little modesty.