MARK KURLANSKY

Mark Kurlansky is well-known to readers through his popular books Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Salt: A World History, and The Basque History of the World.  Mark has a long-standing interest in food and food history. He worked as a professional chef and pastry maker in New York and New England and currently writes a regular column about food history for Food & Wine magazine. (one of these was included in Best Food Writing 2000). His book Cod received the James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing, The Glenfiddich 1999 Food and Drink Award for Best Book, and was chosen by the New York Public Library as one of the Best Books of 1997. Cod was also a New York Times Business Bestseller and a Boston Globe Bestseller. The Basque History of the World underscored Mark’s passion for immersion in cultures struggling to preserve, or define their identity, and was published to similiar acclaim.

His most recent work, The Big Oyster, a culinary and cultural history of Manhattan based in the history of the once-famous oyster beds of New York Harbor.  Nathaniel Philbrick has called it "a zesty love song to a bivalve and a city- intelligent, informative, and impossible to put down."

• A Continent of Islands (1992)

• A Chosen Few (1994)

• Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)

• The Basque History of the World (1999)

• The White Man in the Tree (2000)

• The Cod's Tale (2001)

• Salt: A World History (2002)

• Choice Cuts (editor, 2002)

• 1968: The Year that Rocked the World (2003)

• Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue (2005)

• The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi: Euskadiraino Igerian Joan Zen Neska (2005)

• The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell (2006)

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THE BOOKS...

This one is for the kids!

And look for Mark's new book, The Story of Salt, due out in September and also geared toward the little ones.