Salt · Grain of Life by Laszlo, Pierre -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Salt-Cured Foods

The Proverb of Salt on Lettuce Osmosis and Salt Curing Salting Herring The Cossacks of the Don The Proverb of Friendship Over Salt Food Preservation Flavor Concentrates Saucing Saumandises Cookery The Proverb on Success in Love The Salting Tub From the Salty to the Sweet: Saint Nicholas

2. Nomads

Settled and Nomadic Peoples On Camelback Mind of Salt Saint-John Perse West Salt Story, 1650–1850 Salt Routes The Proverb of the Tardy Salt Alpine Salt Lick Like the Dawn Technical Vocabularies The Proverb of the Bland Egg

3. Harvesting

Salt Domes Mining The Proverb of Rejecting the Bland Solar-Evaporation Saltworks The Beginning of Béatrix Onondaga, Success, and Decay Desalination of Seawater

4. Abuse of Power

Technology and Social Structure National Sovereignty The Proverb of the Marsh Purchase Venice The Seeds of Modern Times The Dutch Revolt The Gabelle An Admonishment to a King Taxation A Mine Near Krakow The Warrior’s Saying Citadel of Salt The Proverb of the Cardinal Points Gandhi

5. Biology

The Salinity of the Ocean A Marine Origin? What Osmosis Consists of The Two Kinds of Organisms Fish Thirst and Lack of Salt The Nerve Impulse Extreme Halophiles A Frenchman’s Look at the Great Salt Lake

6. Other Science Insights

Alchemy Michigan Salt Raw Material for an Industry The Age of Vinyl Salt and Cold Salt and Water The Wine Stain Slippages Water Softening Salt Glazing The Invention of Spectroscopy Variation on the Same Old Tune The Saying About the Red Herring The Saugrenu Punning in the Rain From Salt to Salts

7. Myths

Ritual and Liturgical Uses of Salt in the Bible Salt and Dance Aztec Bacchus The Proverb of the Aspersion Saltcellars Benvenuto Cellini Decorative Arts: From Colbert to the Queyras The Saying on the Pinch of Salt Stendhalian Crystallization Ramakrishna’s Emblem

Conclusion: Ethics and Politics

Popularization The Representation of History

Afterword: The Union of Earth and Sea Notes