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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.
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The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
—Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.
—Karl Marx, speech, 1856
Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think. All the deeds of men are only dreams at first. And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams.
—Theodore Herzel, Old New Land, 1902
A country is never as poor as when it seems filled with riches.
—Laozi quoted in the Yan tie lun, A Discourse on Salt and Iron, 81 B.C.
At the time when Pope Pius VII had to leave Rome, which had been conquered by revolutionary French, the committee of the Chamber of Commerce in London was considering the herring fishery. One member of the committee observed that, since the Pope had been forced to leave Rome, Italy was probably going to become a Prtestant country. "Heaven help us," cried another member. "What," responded the first, "would you be upset to see the number of good Protestants increase?" "No," the other answered," it isn't that, but suppose there are no more Catholics, what shall we do with our herring?"
—Alexander Dumas, Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine, 1873
It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other. . . . thus mean, very different in genius and pursuits, become mutually subservient to each other; and a very useful kind of commerce is established by which the old arts are improved, and new ones daily invented.
—William Brownrigg, The Art of Making Common Salt, London, 1748
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To my parents, Roslyn Solomon and Philip Mendel Kurlansky, who taught me to love books and music
and
to Talia Feiga, who opened worlds while she slept in the crook of my arm.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Introduction
I bought the rock in Spanish Catalonia, in the rundown hillside mining town of Cardonia.
Chapter One A Mandate of Salt
Once I stood on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacked issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, "We Chinese invented many things!"
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Fixing the true value of salt, one of earth's most accessible commodities, has never been easy.
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