Mark has recieved numerous awards, including: 2017 Havana named one of top seven travel books of the year by Smithsonian magazine 2015 Junior Library Guild Selection for Frozen in Time 2012 Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writer award from Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno 2011 National Parenting Publications Awards - gold award for World Without Fish 2007 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence 2007 Doctor of Letters, Butler University 2006 Bon Appetit magazine’s Food Writer of the Year. 2005 ALA Notable Book Council Award for 1968: The Year That Rocked The World 2001 Basque Hall of Fame 2001 Honorary ambassadorship from the Basque government Cod received the 1999 James Beard Award for Food Writing and the 1999 Glenfiddich Award The children’s book, The Cod’s Tale , received the Orbis Pictus award from the National Council of Teachers of English. The children’s book, The Story of Salt , received the ALA Notable Book Award A Continent of Islands and Cod both received The New York Public Library Best Books of the Year Award Salt received the Pluma Plata award from the Bilbao Book Fair and was a finalist for the LA Times Science Writing Award and the James Beard food writing award. 1968 received the ALA Notable Book Award