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January 24, 2025

PEOPLE Picks the Best Books of the 2000s, Including by Anthony Bourdain and Margaret Atwood

In celebration of PEOPLE’s 50th anniversary, PEOPLE staffers are looking back on some of their favorite books of the decade. From novels, memoirs and nonfiction accounts, read on to see some of the PEOPLE staff’s favorite books from the 2000s.

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November 27, 2023

NY Times: Mark Kurlansky Wishes More Authors Would Denounce War

“There are too many books celebrating it,” says the author, whose new book is “The Core of an Onion.”

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November 22, 2023

The Ten Best Books About Food of 2023

The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Mark Kurlansky

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November 20, 2023

Bloomsbury Orders the ‘Lobster’

Nancy Miller at Bloomsbury has acquired world rights to Mark Kurlansky’s Lobsters. Kurlansky is represented by Danielle Svetcov at Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary, who submitted the project exclusively to Miller for the editor and author’s 22nd book together. Bloomsbury said the work is “a portrait of our most delectable crustacean, including recipes,” from “a native New Englander and man of…

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November 10, 2023

Mark Kurlansky Does, in Fact, Cook a Lot of Cod

“No fat, pure protein from the hardscrabble North Atlantic.”

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May 25, 2009

A taste of America’s past (Los Angeles Times)

Opinion A taste of America’s past A cache of papers from the Library of Congress reveals local culinary roots and traditions that have just about vanished. By Mark Kurlansky for the LA Times It was an exciting moment: I was in the Library of Congress, watching as a cart approached packed with dozens of dull…

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May 15, 2009

“Rockstar Historian” at Brookline Booksmith

Mark’s appearance at Brookline Booksmith on May 15th.

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July 22, 2007

Parade Magazine: “Where Champions Begin”

Some of America’s best baseball players come from a place far away. This is the town… Where Champions Begin By Mark Kurlanskypublished: 07/22/2007 In San Pedro de Macorís, American baseball scouts are wandering the sandlots and parks, looking for the next superstar. Finding a champion happens often in this provincial sugar port in the southeastern…

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Mark Kurlansky has written 39 books: non-fiction, fiction, children's and young adult. He doesn't seem able to stop himself.

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