Paul Greenberg
James Beard Award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood
Mark Kurlansky
New York Times bestselling-author of Cod, Salt, and The Food of a Younger Land
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times-bestselling author of more than two-dozen books, including Salt, Cod, and Ready for a Brand New Beat—a chronicle of how the song "Dancing in the Street" became an activist anthem. The winner of a James Beard Award and the Bon Appetit "Food Writer of the Year" Award, Kurlansky draws upon his work to discuss history, food writing, culinary trends, and environmental issues.
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About Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award–winning author of many books, including Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World; Salt: A World History; 1968: The Year That Rocked the World; The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell; The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town; and City Beasts.
He is the winner of a Bon Appétit Food Writer of the Year Award as well as a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for Best Book, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He lives in New York City.
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Speaking Topics
Environmental Topics
The Decline in Fish Stocks The Fishing Crisis The Future of the Oceans
Food Topics
The History of Fishing Food Writing Salt American Cooking
The Year 1968 Around the World, and Why It Was a Global Phenomenon
The History of the Basques
The History of Nonviolence
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Praise for Mark Kurlansky
Praise for City Beasts
Kurlansky powerfully demonstrates the defining role food plays in history and culture.
— Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFor those of us who love both stories and food, this book is a delectable feast. Mark Kurlansky’s sixteen-part novel is like a long, wonderful meal with friends. It is nurturing, succulent, and most of all, a lot of fun.
— Edwidge DanticatBrilliant… Journalistic skills might be part of a writer’s survival kit, but they infrequently prove to be the foundation for literary success, as they have here. …. Kurlansky has a wonderful ear for the syntax and rhythm of the vernacular… For all the seriousness of Kurlansky’s cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor.
— The New York Times Book ReviewPraise for Frozen in Time
Engaging . . . reminds young readers that the most essential ingredient to innovation is curiosity.
— BooklistA fascinating story of curiosity, imagination and invention.
— Kirkus ReviewsPraise for Ready for a Brand New Beat
Comprehensive…effective…a strong case for why ‘Dancing in the Street’ would be widely interpreted as a call to action.
— The New YorkerMr. Kurlansky has come up with a book that will make you hum its theme song.
— The New York TimesHistorians and music lovers alike will be grateful for Mr. Kurlansky’s thorough appreciation of this iconic song.
— The Wall Street JournalPraise for Birdseye
[An] intriguing book that . . . coaxes readers to re-examine everyday miracles like frozen food, and to imagine where places with no indigenous produce would be without them.
— The New York TimesLess a biography than a glimpse into an exuberantly inventive time in America. . . . In Kurlansky’s hands, the arc of Birdseye’s life . . . is a history of the American imagination.
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City Beasts
“Brilliant… Journalistic skills might be part of a writer’s survival kit, but they infrequently prove to be the foundation for literary success, as they have here. …. Kurlansky has a wonderful ear for the syntax and rhythm of the vernacular… For all the seriousness of Kurlansky’s cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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