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  1. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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  2. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day
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  3. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride. Wherever records exist of humans in different stages of development, as in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America, it is generally found that hunter tribes neither made nor traded for salt but agricultural tribes did. On every continent, once human beings began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt to add to their diet.
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  4. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride.
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  5. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    In Welsh tradition, a plate was put on the coffin with bread and salt, and a local professional sin eater arrived to eat the salt.
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  6. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    Kement a zo fall, a gar ar sall"-Everything that is not good asks to be salted. Everything from meat to butter to potatoes was salted. Salt was Brittany's cheapest product, the one everyone could afford. Another Breton proverb was "Aviz hag holen a roer d'an nep a c'houlenn"-Advice and salt are available to anyone who wants it.
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  7. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    Despite the fame of their bright clothing, Celts are described going naked into battle except for horned helmets. We are told that they had frightening war cries and that the terrifying songs of their ancestors were preludes to violent attacks.
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  8. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    epithet of the drunkard's biscuit.
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  9. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.
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  10. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

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  11. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    Herzl had said that attracting the Jewish diaspora would be a slow process, but after a half century as a nation, according to the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, only 17 percent of American Jews have ever visited Israel.
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  12. Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History

    For a time, the Hanseatics were well appreciated as honorable merchants who ensured quality and fought against unscrupulous practices. They were known as Easterlings because they came from the east, and this is the origin of the word sterling, which meant "of assured value." The
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