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Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped ...
'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? And yet this is precisely what Kurlansky has done' Express on Sunday The Cod. W...
The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and fr...
A KID’S GUIDE TO THE OCEAN "Can you imagine a world without fish? It's not as crazy as it sounds. But if we keep doing things the way we've been doi...
A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all ...
A 10,000-Year History
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all t...
A World History
Homer called salt a divine substance, while Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Kurlansky blends political, commercial, scientific, rel...
Presents the history of salt, from the many ways it's gathered from the earth and sea, to its many uses throughout history, from ancient times to Gand...
A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
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Searching For The Caribbean Destiny
A richly detailed portrait of the individual countries and peoples of the Caribbean ; brings to life a society and culture often kept hidden from fore...
History on the Half Shell
“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.” –The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a...
From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world. Pap...
The Adventures of a Curious Man
Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the ecce...
The Year That Rocked the World
Here is a singular & definitive look at a pivotal year in world history. 1968 was the year of sex & drugs & rock & roll; it was also the year of the M...
Describes the Atlantic cod fish and how it has been fished throughout history to near extinction....
A Subtropical Delirium
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New Yo...
a Novel of Pastry, Guilt and Music
It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighb...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “In this highly opinionated and highly readable history, Kurlansky makes a case for why 1968 has lasting relevance in the Un...
The History of a Dangerous Idea
The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes...
Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that even the Revolutionary War, the ...
A Novel in Sixteen Parts
All-new stories about the food we share, love, and fight over from the national bestselling author of Cod and Salt. In these linked stories, Mark Kurl...
Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food
"This biography--perfect for middle-grade readers--tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and...
A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files
Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show! A portrait of American food--before the national highway system, before chain restaurant...
Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in th...
Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife
All-new stories about the urban worlds where animals and humans fight, love, and find common ground, from the nationally bestselling author of Cod and...
Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt, a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the worl...
The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town
"A marvelous, compelling tale"(Rocky Mountain News) from the New York Times bestselling author of Salt and Cod. Gloucester, Massachusetts, America's o...
A Molluscular History of New York
The Northeast Eats Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York City, New York State, Pennsylvania
Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show! A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Ti...
The Resurrection of European Jewry
A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in ...
A KIRKUS' SELECTION FOR BEST TEEN & YA NONFICTION 2022 NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2022 PW HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2022 In his new book for...
New York in the World : a Molluscular History
This book is the story of a city, New York, and of an international trade, oysters. Filled with cultural, social and culinary insight - as well as rec...
Are These Really the Twenty Most Important Questions in Human History?
What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the...
The Fate of the Atlantic and Our Disappearing Fisheries
Will most of the major fisheries of the world be exhausted by 2048, as has been claimed? Have the number of large fish in the ocean decreased by 90 pe...
How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William “Mickey” Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote “Dancing...
"Fly fishing, historian Mark Kurlansky has found, is a battle of wits, fly fisher vs. fish--and the fly fisher does not always (or often) win. The tar...
A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
“Every once in awhile a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight.” That’s how D...
A Molluscar History of New York
From 1626 until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, N.Y. was a city known for its oysters, especially in the late 1800s, when Europe an...
Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food
Nonfiction for kids interested in science, biography, and early entrepreneurs, this work explores the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who rev...