In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history....

The singular remarkable fact about the Basques is that they still exist, best selling author Mark Kurlansky says...

Now, the winner of the James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing shares a varied selection of "choice cuts" by others, as he leads us on a mouthwatering culinary tour around the world and through history and culture from the fifth century B.C. to the present day.

The innocuous cod has been the subject of international wars, national diets, economies, livelihoods, and health in general...

From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.

So much of our human body is made up of salt that we'd be dead without it.