(Food History) Mark Kurlansky. Salt: A World History Sichuanese riffs on some of Japan’s

riffs on some of Japan’s most beloved cocktails like the Whisky Highball

some small tears to cover paper

The illustrations are charming

so you can wear this apron all day long and still be cool (of course

(Food History) Mark Kurlansky. Salt: A World History Sichuanese riffs on some of Japan’sIllus. from photographs. Jacket. First Edition. NY: Walker & Co., [2002]. The story of salt encompasses fields as disparate as engineering, religion, and food, all of which Kurlansky richly explores. Few endeavors have inspired more ingenuity than salt making, from the natural gas furnaces of ancient China to the drilling techniques that led to the age of petroleum, and salt revenues have funded some of the greatest public works in history, including