MARK KURLANSKY ON CHEESECAKE: A NOVEL

MARION WINIK is the author of nine books, including The Big Book of the Dead and First Comes Love. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and elsewhere; her column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has been running since 2011. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews books for The Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and People, among others, and hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader. She was a commentator on All Things Considered for 15 years.

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.