[Sca-cooks] Salt-- new books

[johnna holloway]

There has been a number of postings regarding
the subject of salt of late... be it oversalting
or undersalting today's feast dishes
and below salt/above salt/price of salt/use of salt
inquiries and comments.

There are two new books on the subject.
Salt. Grain of Life. by Pierre Laszlo.
Translation of Chemins et savoirs du sel[1998]
by Mary Beth Mader. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2001.Notes, but no index or bibliography sections.

and

Salt. A World History. by Mark Kurlansky. Walker and
Company, 2001. This is by the author of Cod and is featured
in the new issue of Saveur number 56.

A 1996 publication that might also be of interest is:
Neptune's Gift : A History of Common Salt.
(John Hopkins Studies in the Hist of Tech, New Series 2)
by Robert P. Multhauf. Reissue edition (September 1996)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801854695

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