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Información de la obraSal: historia de la única piedra comestible por Mark Kurlansky
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Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() ![]() A fun and informative read. The history of salt is especially interesting since it plays a role in all of human history. Unfortunately, Kulansky's research skills might be questioned just a bit - he has Joseph Smith being murdered by a mob in 1846. It was June 27th of 1844, a fact that could easily have been verified. This faux pas may have been attributable less to his research skills and more to his level of interest and engagement, since he also sluffed off the history of the Great Salt Lake and blthely stated that the salt from the lake was a mainstay of the Mormon economy. Nonetheless, the book is a nice addition to my library. I read this book many years ago but as I received it as a gift from my younger child, it was time to read it again. Despite the seasoning of decades it holds up as a good book. Salt, which the author notes is "the only rock we eat," plays a vital role in human history and culture. At times this book reads like someone who knows a lot about salt and has decided to tell you all about it in detail, but in the most fascinating way possible. For foodies, Kurlansky also includes recipes using salt from across time and cultures. There's way too much to summarize here, but my favorite part involves Avery Island in Lousiana. The island is actually a salt dome, and there's a curious connection between salt domes and petroleum. In the case of Avery Island, people have not only exploited it for salt and oil, but Edmund McIlhenny decided it would be a good place to grow peppers for use in his product, Tabasco sauce. The fun stories and historical connections make this book an informative and entertaining read. I definitely have mixed feelings about this one. The author has done an incredible amount of research and without a doubt makes his case for the importance of salt in world history, connecting it to lots of things we may have never thought of, and throwing in lots of interesting historical anecdotes. However, I could have done without the recipes. I did learn a lot however. The audiobook was generally well read except that the narrator doesn't know how to pronounce a lot of Chinese words, which I guess doesn't matter to most listeners who don't know how they are pronounced to begin with.
Who would have thought that musings on an edible rock could run to 450 breathless pages? Let me hasten to add that Salt turns out to be far from boring. With infectious enthusiasm, Kurlansky leads the reader on a 5,000-year sodium chloride odyssey through China, India, Egypt, Japan, Morocco, Israel, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, England, Scandinavia, France and the US, highlighting the multifarious ways in which this unassuming chemical compound has profoundly influenced people's lives. Pertenece a las series editorialesLlibres a l'abast (378) Aparece abreviada enPremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
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