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 British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humankind. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet its most exotic forms -- underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060084685
• ISBN13: 9780060084684
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 9.1"

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.