Salt: a world history

pt. 1. A discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sources. A mandate of salt

Fish, fowl, and pharaohs

Saltmen hard as codfish

Salt's salad days

Salting it away in the Adriatic

Two ports and the prosciutto in between

pt. 2. The glow of herring and the scent of conquest. Friday's salt

A Nordic dream

A well-salted hexagon

The Hapsburg pickle

The leaving of Liverpool

American salt wars

Salt and independence

Liberté, egalité, tax breaks

Preserving independence

The war between the salts

Red salt

pt. 3. Sodium's perfect marriage. The odium of sodium

The mythology of geology

The soil never sets on ...

Salt and the great soul

Not looking back

The last salt days of Zigong

Ma, la, and Mao

More salt than fish

Big salt, little salt.