In these linked stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people together, tear them apart, or make them become vegan: food. Through muffins or hot dogs, an indigenous Alaskan fish soup, a bean curd Thanksgiving turkey or potentially toxic crème brulee, a rotating cast of characters learns how to honor the past, how to realize you're not in love with someone any more, and how to forgive. These women and men meet and eat and love, leave and drink and in the end, come together in Seattle as they are as inextricably linked with each other as they are with the food they eat and the wine they drink.

Kurlansky brings a keen eye and unerring sense of humanity to these stories. And throughout, his love and knowledge of food shows just how important a role what we eat plays in our lives.

Sent to jubby for SCBE. Enjoy!

Thank you very much for sharing this book with me Book-a-neer.

I have read a couple of Kurlansky's books and really enjoyed them. Those from memory were history titles, so this will be interesting to see what his fiction is like.

Thank you again.

I deeply enjoyed this book, from the smart, matte cover, and the uneven pages, to the stories and words themselves.

'A novel in sixteen bites' is the subtitle, and here each of the characters appear and sometimes reappear with the central theme of food and relations.

The Hawaiian Salt appears to tie many of the stories together, and is the thread that orders the stories.

Entertaining, light reading and humorous in parts, I deeply loved dipping into this book.

The foodie who looses his senses of taste and smell, and the exercising muffin-eaters were the standouts.

Thank you Book-a-neer for sharing this book with me.

Left on a bench on near the water between Cockle Bay and Barangaroo Wharves.