Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 hours agoWho are your instant watch/listen/read media producers?message-squaremessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up134arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareWho are your instant watch/listen/read media producers?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 18 hours agomessage-square28linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoMark Kurlansky - author of historical non-fiction (often centered around food history and its cultural impacts) and journalist Fuchsia Dunlop - author of books on Chinese cooking, particularly Sichuanese John Langan - author of cosmic horror John Oliver - needs no introduction, I’m sure
minus-squareYardy Sardley@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 hours agoI thought Mark Kurlansky sounded familiar so I just looked and yup, he wrote Salt: a World History. I adore that book, but I haven’t really looked into any of his other work yet. What else would you recommend by him?
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoSalt might be my favorite, but I would follow it up with Cod, Paper, and The Big Oyster.
Mark Kurlansky - author of historical non-fiction (often centered around food history and its cultural impacts) and journalist
Fuchsia Dunlop - author of books on Chinese cooking, particularly Sichuanese
John Langan - author of cosmic horror
John Oliver - needs no introduction, I’m sure
I thought Mark Kurlansky sounded familiar so I just looked and yup, he wrote Salt: a World History. I adore that book, but I haven’t really looked into any of his other work yet. What else would you recommend by him?
Salt might be my favorite, but I would follow it up with Cod, Paper, and The Big Oyster.