Introduction: The Rock -- Discourse on Salt, Cadavers, and Pungent Sauces -- Mandate of Salt -- Fish, Fowl, and Pharaohs -- Saltmen Hard as Codfish -- Salt's Salad Days -- Salting it Alway in the Adriatic -- Two Ports and the Prosciutto in Between -- Glow of Herring and the Scent of Conquest -- Friday's Salt -- Nordic Dream -- Well-Salted Hexagon -- Hapsburg Pickle -- Leaving of Liverpool -- American Salt Wars -- Salt and Independence -- Liberte, Egalite, Tax Breaks -- Preserving Independence -- War Between the Salts -- Red Salt -- Sodium's Perfect Marriage -- Odium of Sodium -- Mythology of Geology -- Soil Never Sets On ... -- Salt and the Great Soul -- Not Looking Back -- Last Salt Days of Zigong -- Ma, La, and Mao -- More Salt than Fish -- Big Salt, Little Salt.
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