Culture Salt

A life–affirming memoir about resilience and repair—and the healing power of our ancestor's music, stories, and recipes. Samantha’s mother tongue is dying out. The daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo–Iraqi Arabic. A...

“If you had any doubt as to the food industry’s complicity in our obesity epidemic, it will evaporate when you read this book.”—The Washington Post #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER In this “propulsively written [and] persuasively argued” (The Boston...

Stay Salty is a field guide for pastors and church leaders who refuse to go bland. In a noisy, confused world, your church needs a message that is biblical, clear, and courageous. This book gives you practical tools to sharpen your words, steady your people, and stand firm with grace and conviction. Drawing from real ministry challenges, Stay Salty shows you how to communicate truth with clarity, lead under pressure, and build systems that hold the line when culture pushes back. It is pastoral, practical, and ready to use this weekend. You’ll learn how to: Clarify your church’s message ...

It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of London's middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe. As well as following the historical thread and exploring how very different cultures were drawn together by the salt fish trade, John Goodlad meets those whose lives revolve around the industry in the twenty-first century and addresses today's pressing themes of sustainability, climate change, and food choices.

In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it...

Every spice in your kitchen has a secret. Most of them involve war. Black pepper paid the ransom for a Roman city. Nutmeg drove a company to genocide. Vanilla was locked inside a single country for three centuries until a twelve-year-old enslaved boy discovered how to set it free. Saffron was guarded so jealously that adulterating it was punishable by death. 50 Spices That Shaped History takes you inside the stories behind civilization's most coveted flavors — from the ancient trade routes that made fortunes and broke empires, to the kitchens where the world's cuisines were transformed by...

Raising kids today is more challenging than it has ever been. Technology, social media, and the ever-shifting standards of what is right and wrong can make parenting in modern-day culture difficult to navigate. If we want to win the battle as parents, we need to have the desire to truly parent well.

Prepare for the future with the eight skills needed to become future fit. Winner, Australian Business Book of the Year 2019 Finalist, UK Business Book Awards 2020 Finalist, Australian Career Book of the Year 2019 The need for skills that defy disruption has never been so urgent, as traditional...

In 1930, the Indian people, long ruled by their British occupiers, were at a breaking point. No more could many stand the terrible demands of colonial rule. At this pivotal moment, Mohandas Gandhi, who had suffered firsthand for decades the cruelty of his oppressors, saw an opportunity to win his people's freedom. And so, Gandhi led a small band of his followers on a grueling march from his ashram in western India to the Arabian Sea. After 24 days and 241 miles under a withering sun, the marchers arrived on the Dandi seashore.