- Salt industry and trade, Salt, Specimens, History
Mark Kurlansky's books Cod & Salt are the musts for every student on food studies. Together they supply the missing link of knowledge. One or two semesters courses are recommended for beginners in cod and salt studies.
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Cool, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Kurlansky
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- New Millennium Press, Penguin (Non-Classics), Vintage Canada
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Arabic
- ISBN
- 9780802713735
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“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 jacket 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!"”
Mark Kurlansky is an American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction. He has written a number of books of fiction and non-fiction. - Wikipedia
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