Salt: Grain of Life

by Pierre Laszlo

Book Overview

For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms--underground salt deposits,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231121989
• ISBN13: 9780231121989
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Not a kitchen bookshelf book !

Even if it's here as a cooking book it'snot one. The writer is a french scientist whose speciality is chemistry. The book deals with the history of salt through economy, epistemology, proverbs and everyday life.Very enjoyable.