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• catalog abstract ""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 formsunderground 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". 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Chemins et savoirs du sel. English".
• catalog contributor b12174913.
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""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 formsunderground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, and pink Peruvian salt from the sea carried in bricks on the backs of llamas."".
• catalog description ""From proverbs to technical arguments, from anecdotes to examples of folklore, chemist and philosopher Pierre Laszlo takes us through the kingdom of "white gold". 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."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-193).".
• catalog description "Proverb of salt on lettuce -- Osmosis and salt curing -- Salting herring -- Cossacks of the Don -- Proverb of friendship over salt -- Food preservation -- Flavor concentrates -- Saucing -- Saumandises -- Cookery -- Proverb on success in love -- 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 -- Proverb of the tardy salt -- Alpine salt -- Lick -- Like the dawn -- Technical vocabularies -- Proverb of the bland egg -- Salt domes -- Mining -- Proverb of rejecting the bland -- Solar-evaporation -- Saltworks -- Beginning of Beatrix -- Onondaga, success, and decay -- Desalination of seawater -- Technology and social structure -- National sovereignty -- Proverb of the marsh purchase -- Venice -- Seeds of modern times -- Dutch revolt -- Gabelle -- An admonishment to a king -- Taxation -- A mine near Krakow -- Warrior's saying -- Citadel of salt -- Proverb of the cardinal points -- Gandhi -- Salinity of the ocean -- A marine origin? -- What osmosis consists of -- The two kinds of organisms -- Fish -- Thirst and lack of salt -- Nerve impulse -- Extreme halophiles -- A Frenchman's look at the Great Salt Lake -- Alchemy -- Michigan salt -- Raw material for an industry -- Age of vinyl -- Salt and cold -- Salt and water -- Wine stain -- Slippages -- Water softening -- Salt glazing -- Invention of spectroscopy -- Variation on the same old tune -- Saying about the red herring -- Saugrenu -- Punning in the rain -- From salt to salts -- Ritual and liturgical uses of salt in the bible -- Salt and dance -- Aztec Bacchus -- Proverb of the aspersion -- Saltcellars -- Benevento Cellini -- Decorative arts: from Colbert to the Queyras -- Saying on the pinch of salt -- Stendhalian crystallization -- Ramakrishna's emblem -- Popularization -- Representation of history.".
• catalog extent "xxv, 193 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0231121989 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
• catalog subject "553.6/3 21".
• catalog subject "Salt History.".
• catalog subject "TN900 .L3713 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "Proverb of salt on lettuce -- Osmosis and salt curing -- Salting herring -- Cossacks of the Don -- Proverb of friendship over salt -- Food preservation -- Flavor concentrates -- Saucing -- Saumandises -- Cookery -- Proverb on success in love -- 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 -- Proverb of the tardy salt -- Alpine salt -- Lick -- Like the dawn -- Technical vocabularies -- Proverb of the bland egg -- Salt domes -- Mining -- Proverb of rejecting the bland -- Solar-evaporation -- Saltworks -- Beginning of Beatrix -- Onondaga, success, and decay -- Desalination of seawater -- Technology and social structure -- National sovereignty -- Proverb of the marsh purchase -- Venice -- Seeds of modern times -- Dutch revolt -- Gabelle -- An admonishment to a king -- Taxation -- A mine near Krakow -- Warrior's saying -- Citadel of salt -- Proverb of the cardinal points -- Gandhi -- Salinity of the ocean -- A marine origin? -- What osmosis consists of -- The two kinds of organisms -- Fish -- Thirst and lack of salt -- Nerve impulse -- Extreme halophiles -- A Frenchman's look at the Great Salt Lake -- Alchemy -- Michigan salt -- Raw material for an industry -- Age of vinyl -- Salt and cold -- Salt and water -- Wine stain -- Slippages -- Water softening -- Salt glazing -- Invention of spectroscopy -- Variation on the same old tune -- Saying about the red herring -- Saugrenu -- Punning in the rain -- From salt to salts -- Ritual and liturgical uses of salt in the bible -- Salt and dance -- Aztec Bacchus -- Proverb of the aspersion -- Saltcellars -- Benevento Cellini -- Decorative arts: from Colbert to the Queyras -- Saying on the pinch of salt -- Stendhalian crystallization -- Ramakrishna's emblem -- Popularization -- Representation of history.".
• catalog title "Chemins et savoirs du sel. English".
• catalog title "Salt : grain of life / Pierre Laszlo ; translated by Mary Beth Mader.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".