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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky by Mark Kurlansky

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky

484 pages hardcover 2002

21 editions

nonfiction food and drink history science informative slow-paced
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Homer called salt a divine substance, while Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Kurlansky blends political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records into this history of the substance which he claims shaped civilizatio...

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