Mark Kurlansky Audio & Video

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...

For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant role in the city's economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves....

Kurlansky, the prize-winning author of Nonviolence; Salt: A World History; and The Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry, discusses his latest book, Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell.

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...

The intriguing, inspiring history of one small, impoverished area in the Dominican Republic that has produced a staggering number of Major League Baseball talent, from an award-winning, bestselling author.

Mark Kurlansky's new book takes us back to the food of a younger America. Before the national highway system brought the country closer together, before chain restaurants brought uniformity, and before the Frigidaire meant that frozen food could be stored for longer, the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional.

From award-winning author Mark Kurlansky comes a look at our earth's disappearing fisheries as seen through the lens of America's oldest fishing port.

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.