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Salt (2002) (edit title/settings)

A World History

by Mark Kurlansky (Author) (edit contributors)

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Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World , here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often... read more

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ONCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, "We Chinese invented many things!"

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Introduction: The Rock

Part One: A Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces
Chapter One: A Mandate of Salt
Chapter Two: Fish, Fowl, and Pharoahs
Chapter Three: Saltmen Hard as Codfish
Chapter Four: Salt's Salad Days
Chapter Five: Salting It Away in the Adriatic
Chapter Six: Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between
Part Two: The Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest
Chapter Seven: Friday's Salt
Chapter Eight: A Nordic Dream
Chapter Nine: A Well-Salted Hexagon
Chapter Ten: The Hapsburg Pickle
Chapter Eleven: The Leaving of Liverpool
Chapter Twelve: American Salt Wars
Chapter Thirteen: Salt and Independence
Chapter Fourteen: Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks
Chapter Fifteen: Preserving Independence
Chapter Sixteen: The War Between the Salts
Chapter Seventeen: Red Salt
Part Three: Sodium's Perfect Marriage
Chapter Eighteen: The Odium of Sodium
Chapter Nineteen: The Mythology of Geology
Chapter Twenty: The Soil Never Sets On...
Chapter Twenty-one: Salt and the Great Soul
Chapter Twenty-two: Not Looking Back
Chapter Twenty-three: The Last Salt Days of Zigong
Chapter Twenty-four: Ma, La, and Mao
Chapter Twenty-five: More Salt than Fish
Chapter Twenty-six: Big Salt, Little Salt

Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Mark Kurlansky (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Susanna Edwards (Photographer) - Front jacket photographer of Alfred A. Knopf Canada Edition.
  2. Lisa Klausner (Photographer) - Author Photographer of Alfred A. Knopf Canada Edition.

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Country: Canada
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0676972683
Page Count: 496

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: TN900 .K865
  • Dewey: 553.63209

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