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This book takes a look at an ordinary substance--salt, the only rock humans eat--and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning.
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Salt: A World History
January 1, 2003, Rebound by Sagebrush
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in English
1417675160 9781417675166
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Salt: A World History
July 2002, Thorndike Press
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in English
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0786243899 9780786243891
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Table of Contents
Discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources: Mandate of salt
Fish, fowl, and pharoahs
Saltmen hard as codfish
Salt's salad days
Salting it away in the Adriatic
Two ports and the prosciutto in between
Glow of herring and the scent of conquest: Friday's salt
Nordic dream
Well-salted hexagon
Hapsburg pickle
Leaving of Liverpool
American salt wars
Salt and independence
Liberte, egalite, tax breaks
Preserving independence
War between the salts
Red salt
Sodium's perfect marriage: Odium of sodium
Mythology of geology
Soil never sets on
Salt and the great soul
Not looking back
Last salt days of Zigong
Ma, La, and Mao
More salt than fish
Big salt, little salt.
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Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing link of knowledge. One or two semesters courses are recommended for beginners in cod and salt studies.
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