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Mark Kurlansky
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in Hartford, Connecticut, The United States
December 07, 1948
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The Sadness of Baseball
Watching players kneel to protest racism during the playing of the national anthem 90-year-old Vin Scully said he would never watch another NFL game. I had a similar reaction during the World Series watching the Dodgers line up clutching their hats to their hearts saluting the flag like some extreme right youth corp. A life long baseball fan, in fact originally a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, I asked
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Salt: A World History
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2002
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73 editions
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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1997
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72 editions
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
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1999
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36 editions
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
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2005
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1968: The Year That Rocked the World
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2003
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50 editions
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Paper: Paging Through History
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2016
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15 editions
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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
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2009
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27 editions
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Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
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2018
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4 editions
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Havana: A Subtropical Delirium
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2017
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14 editions
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Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
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2006
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29 editions
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“In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.”
― Salt: A World History
― Salt: A World History
“Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.”
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
― Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
“modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.”
― Salt: A World History
― Salt: A World History
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