Kurlansky, Mark.
Summary: Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Author Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, Gotham's most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2006
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Summary: Award-winning New York Times–bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America, before the national highway system brought the country closer together, before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality, and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities. Back then, the nation's food was seasonal, regional, traditional, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2009
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Kurlansky, Mark.
Summary: Traces the meteoric popularity of the iconic song by Marvin Gaye, Mickey Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter against a backdrop of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, exploring how the song's multiple meanings rendered it an activist anthem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013
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Summary: The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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Summary: The story of the only rock we eat, including its origin, the other discoveries made because of it, and tales of salt and the people who have been involved with it through the ages.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006
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Summary: Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2010
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Kurlansky, Mark.
Summary: This book takes a look at an ordinary substance--salt, the only rock humans eat-- and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 1999
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Summary: Kurlansky offers a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today's world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016