“It's true that writing and pastry-making are similar, but when you work as a pastry chef, you can get a kind of mania that everything you see is related to pastries.”

American journalist and author

Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and author. He is known for writing both fiction and nonfiction, and for books that reached a wide international readership. His 1997 book Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World became an international bestseller and was translated into more than fifteen languages. He also wrote Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea, which won the nonfiction prize for the 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize.