{"id":969,"date":"2009-01-30T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2009-01-30T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:24:42","slug":"salt-a-world-history-mark-kurlanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2009\/01\/30\/salt-a-world-history-mark-kurlanski\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt. A world history. Mark Kurlanski"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Salt<\/a>. A world history<\/a>. Mark Kurlanski.2002. ISBN<\/a> 0142001619. I wish they had taught history this way when I was chained to my high school<\/a> seat. Instead of itching to get at math, i would have paid attention. The author<\/a> (who has a delightful easy to read writing style) cut his teeth<\/a> writing about the Basques<\/a> and also cod<\/a>. This one is a real keeper. Yes it has some recipes (very old) and lots of geography covered (since everyone needs\/uses salt). But the interlinking between the rise and fall of civilizations that followed the fortunes of the salt industry, is simply fascinating. Great airplane \/holiday book – reads like a fiction novel and it just makes so much sense. The gold<\/a> nuggets<\/a> for me were the insights into how govts, families and cartes manipluate these markets and countries. One thing I believe is that cultures and people do not change.<\/p>\n

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