MARK KURLANSKY ON CHEESECAKE: A NOVEL

MARK KURLANSKY is The New York Times bestselling author of Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas; Havana: A Subtropical Delirium; Paper: Paging Through History; The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell; 1968: The Year That Rocked the World; Salt: A World History; Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World; Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate; and The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food – Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes, among other titles. The recently published Cheesecake: A Novel (Bloomsbury Publishing), is his sixth work of fiction. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appétit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and frequently contributes to The New York Times and The Guardian. A four-time Jeopardy clue, he lives in New York.