Venice Some tourists in today’s Venice ride a boat to Torcello. This island was settledin the fifth and sixth centuries by the Altinians, when they…
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Category: Salt, Grain of Life
For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word salary), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status, preserved foods, and mingled in the blood, sweat, and tears of humankind. Today, chefs of haute cuisine covet its most exotic forms — underground salt deposits, Hawaiian black lava salt, glittery African crystals, and pink Peruvian sea salt carried in bricks on the backs of Ilamas.
Extreme Halophiles Our present knowledge divides living beings into three categories, theprokaryotes (bacteria whose cells have no nuclei), the eukaryotes (bacteria and allhigher organisms whose…
Proverb of the tardy salt The Dutch proverb “hij komt met het zout als het ei op is” finds its Frenchequivalent in the proverb of…
Salt, Grain of Life This book has received a number of translations. These include, in addition to the French original edition, translations into: Italian (Donzelli)…
Some tourists in today’s Venice ride a boat to Torcello. This island was settled in the fifth and sixth centuries by the Altinians, when they…
Our present knowledge divides living beings into three categories, the prokaryotes (bacteria whose cells have no nuclei), the eukaryotes (bacteria and all higher organisms whose…
The Dutch proverb “hij komt met het zout als het ei op is” finds its French equivalent in the proverb of the carabinieri (Italian military…