Presents a history that reveals culinary evolution and food trends in a city that has always been a gastronomic trendsetter. This is also an economic history, examining the impact of transportation innovations that changed urban living and food and also accounted for the growth of a thriving international oyster trade.

From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, the author introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with the prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. He shows how the most profitable fish in history is faced with extinction.

Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. From the rural Sichuan province where the last home-made soya sauce is made to the Cheshire brine springs that supplied salt around the globe, the author blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into a tale.

The year 1968 encompasses the diverse realms of youth and music, politics and war, economics and the media. It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. It was also the year of the Martin Luther King's assassination, and the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. This book shows us how one volatile year helped shape us into who we are.

Including an introduction about the history of food writing, this book is illustrated throughout with the author's own pen and ink drawings. It includes Cato, whose second century BC practical guide to rural life, De Agricultura , one of the oldest surviving complete book of Latin prose, is rich in food commentary that illuminates his time.

They are a mythical people, almost an imagined people, writes Kurlansky. Signs of their civilization exist well before the arrival of the Romans in 218BC. Their forbidden tongue is equally mysterious, it is related to no other, but today the Basques are enjoying what may be the most important cultural renaissance in their long existence.

When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for in 1626, he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. From the Minuit purchase until pollution finally destroyed the beds in the 1920s, New York was a city known for its oysters. This book presents the story of this city.

It was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll; it was also the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement and the Tet Offensive, the student rebellion that paralyzed France, Civil Rights, the generation gap, the beginning of the end for the USSR.

It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels outside his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighbourhood. A tight knit, ethnically diverse New York neighbourhood on the brink of change.

A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt.

The White Man in the Tree is a comedy of cultural misunderstanding set in the Caribbean, New York and Paris, a novella and eight stories about people who, because of their differences, misjudge each other.

The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. But there have always been a few who have refused to fight. This book discusses such non-violence theorists as Tolstoy, Shelley, Gandhi, and others to show how many ideas, such as a united Europe, the United Nations, and others originated in such non-violence movements.

Explores the fate of our oceans and the decline of our most ancient coastal enterprise.