
Salt: A World History

The selling of permits to eat meat on fast days was becoming a profitable source of Church revenue.
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
An adult human being contains about 250 grams of salt, which would fill three or four salt-shakers,
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
I am just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct.”
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
Hapsburg
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
LIST of great rivers that played essential roles in the history of salt—the Yangtze, the Nile, the Tiber and the Po, the Elbe and the Danube, the Rhône and the Loire—a gurgling
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
esoteric,
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
But they also invented the seamless iron rim for wagon wheels, the barrel, and possibly the horseshoe. They may have been the first Europeans
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
China’s first philosopher of morality, he was disturbed by human foibles and wanted to raise the standard of human behavior.