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The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macorís.
A portrait of the town of San Pedro de Macorís, a small impoverished community in the sugar growing region of the Dominican Republic that has so far produced 79 Major League baseball players with many minor leaguers waiting in the wings. It is a baseball story but also reveals the unusual history and rich culture of the Dominican Republic and the impact of baseball, which produces millionaires and can change the life of an entire family, on this struggling Caribbean town.
In a starred review Publishers Weekly wrote: "As he has done so masterfully in his earlier bestselling books on cod, salt, and oysters, Kurlan...
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The Food of A Younger Land: A portrait of American food–before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation’s food was seasonal, regional, and traditional–from the lost WPA files.
An anthology with introduction and annotations of the unpublished manuscripts from the last WPA writers project, an exploration of food and eating in America in 1940. This broad assortment of raw, unpublished, 1940 manuscripts, including works by Nelson Algren, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston reveal a very different America with a different cuisine and a different society. Illustrated with linocuts by the author.
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The Belly of Paris: by Emile Zola a new translation with an introduction by Mark Kurlansky.
Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon -Macquart saga. It is the story of Florent, wrongfully accused of murder in a political uprising, he escapes from Devil’s Island and returns to Paris living in his brothers charcuterie in the newly rebuilt Les Halles market, Paris’ first exposed steel structure. Florent is swept up in a dangerous maelstrom of food and politics with the charcutiere, the cheese vendor, the fruit seller, the fish woman and others. A tragi-comedy center around food. Includes authors notes on food and history.
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Port and Most Original Town.
A portrait of Gloucester Massachusetts a rare surviving fishing port among coastal towns increasingly turning to tourism, this is an exploration of the rich culture of commercial fishing, the rare society it builds, and the struggle to continue in the 21st century. A Boston Globe Best seller, the Globe wrote, In The Last Fish Tale Mark Kurlansky strikes a poignant chord. Beautifully written.” The Financial Times wrote “An engrossing multilayered portrait of a fishing community that can be read for pure pleasure as well as being a campaigning plea for the environment.” Illustrated with pen and ink line drawings by the author.
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