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Tables of Contents for Salt
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
xix
salt-cured foods
1
20
The Proverb of Salt on Lettuce
2
1
Osmosis and Salt Curing
3
2
Salting Herring
5
1
The Cossacks of the Don
6
2
The Proverb of Friendship Over Salt
8
1
Food Preservation
9
2
Flavor Concentrates
11
1
Saucing
11
2
Saumandises
13
1
Cookery
14
3
The Proverb on Success in Love
17
1
The Salting Tub
18
1
From the Salty to the Sweet: Saint Nicholas
19
2
nomads
21
20
Settled and Nomadic Peoples
22
1
On Camelback
23
1
Mind of Salt
24
1
Saint John Perse
25
2
West Salt Story, 1650-1850
27
1
Salt Routes
28
4
The Proverb of the Tardy Salt
32
1
Alpine Salt
32
1
Lick
33
1
Like the Dawn
34
1
Technical Vocabularies
34
6
The Proverb of the Bland Egg
40
1
harvesting
41
16
Salt Domes
42
2
Mining
44
1
The Proverb of Rejecting the Bland
45
2
Solar-Evaporation Saltworks
47
3
The Beginning of Beatrix
50
2
Onondaga, Success, and Decay
52
3
Desalination of Seawater
55
2
abuse of power
57
34
Technology and Social Structure
59
3
National Sovereignty
62
2
The Proverb of the Marsh Purchase
64
1
Venice
65
3
The Seeds of Modern Times
68
3
The Dutch Revolt
71
3
The Gabelle
74
4
An Admonishment to a King
78
1
Taxation
79
3
A Mine Near Krakow
82
1
The Warrior's Saying
83
1
Citadel of Salt
84
1
The Proverb of the Cardinal Points
85
1
Gandhi
86
5
biology
91
14
The Salinity of the Ocean
92
1
A Marine Origin?
93
1
What Osmosis Consists Of
94
1
The Two Kinds of Organisms
95
1
Fish
95
1
Thirst and Lack of Salt
96
2
The Nerve Impulse
98
2
Extreme Halophiles
100
2
A Frenchman's Look at the Great Salt Lake
102
3
other science insights
105
38
Alchemy
106
2
Michigan Salt
108
1
Raw Material for an Industry
109
7
The Age of Vinyl
116
1
Salt and Cold
117
4
Salt and Water
121
2
The Wine Stain
123
3
Slippages
126
1
Water Softening
127
1
Salt Glazing
128
1
The Invention of Spectroscopy
129
4
Variation on the Same Old Tune
133
1
The Saying About the Red Herring
134
1
The Saugrenu
135
4
Punning in the Rain
139
2
From Salt to Salts
141
2
myths
143
22
Ritual and Liturgical Uses of Salt in the Bible
144
1
Salt and Dance
145
1
Aztec Bacchus
146
3
The Proverb of the Aspersion
149
1
Saltcellars
149
1
Benvenuto Cellini
149
2
Decorative Arts: From Colbert to the Queyras
151
4
The Saying on the Pinch of Salt
155
1
Stendhalian Crystallization
156
6
Ramakrishna's Emblem
162
3
conclusion ethics and politics
165
6
Popularization
166
2
The Representation of History
168
3
afterword the union of earth and sea
171
1
Notes
172