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Description
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
First Sentence
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!"
Table of Contents
Part One: A Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces
Part Two: The Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest
Part Three: Sodium's Perfect Marriage
Authors & Contributors
- Mark Kurlansky (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Susanna Edwards (Photographer) - Front jacket photographer of Alfred A. Knopf Canada Edition.
- Lisa Klausner (Photographer) - Author Photographer of Alfred A. Knopf Canada Edition.
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