Journalist Mark Kurlansky has a sobering message for Americans who say they want to visit Havana before it’s ruined. “You can’t go before it’s wrecked because it’s already wrecked,” he says. “It’s not ...

Mark Kurlansky's new book The Core of an Onion is part cookbook, part culinary history. Kurlansky gives readers dozens of facts about this rich vegetable that is able to grow in nearly every climate.

There's a saying that everything in New York winds up being about real estate. Mark Kurlansky's new novel is set mostly on one block of New York's Upper West Side that sees a lot of change from the ...

Americans don’t make fried beaver tail the way they used to, says author Mark Kurlansky. Just 70 years ago, a family pulling off the highway for a quick bite could expect to find peanut soup in ...

David Hayes: Kurlansky and Mary Roach dominate the sub-genre that has covered everything from the banana, butter, garlic, chocolate and coffee to coal, dust, jeans, you name it You can save this ...

Having recently spent some time eating crawfish po-boys, butcher-shop boudin, Cane River meat pies and gateau sirop around Louisiana, we cannot swallow the premise of Mark Kurlansky's "Food of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...