Salt : grain of life
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Salt : grain of life
（Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history）
Columbia University Press, c2001
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Chemins et savoirs du sel
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Originally published: Hachette, c1998
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humanity. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet it in its most exotic forms-underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, and pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas. From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist and philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of "white gold." With "enthusiasm and freshness" (Le Monde) he mixes literary analysis, history, anthropology, biology, physics, economics, art history, political science, chemistry, ethnology, and linguistics to create a full body of knowledge about the everyday substance that rocked the world and brings zest to the ordinary. Laszlo explains the history behind Morton Salt's slogan "When it rains, it pours!" and looks into the plight of the salt miner, as well as spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance.
Salt is a tour de force about a chemical compound that is one of the very foundations of civilization.
目次
Foreword, by Albert Sonnenfeld, series editor 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 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 Salt Domes Mining The Proverb of Rejecting the Bland Solar-Evaporation Saltworks The Beginning of "Catrix" Onondaga, Success, and Decay Desalination of Seawater 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 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 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 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 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 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 1. Salt-Cured Foods 2. Nomads 3. Harvesting 4. Abuse of Power 5. Biology 6. Other Science Insights 7. Myths
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