Salt : a world history

Introduction: The rock

Part 1. A discourse on salt, cadavers, and pungent sauces

1. A mandate of salt

2. Fish, fowl, and pharaohs

3. Saltmen hard as codfish

4. Salt's salad days

5. Salting it away in the Adriatic

6. Two ports and the prosciutto in between

Part 2. The glow of herring and the scent of conquest

7. Friday's salt

8. A Nordic dream

9. A well-salted hexagon

10. The Hapsburg pickle

11. The leaving of Liverpool

12. American salt wars

13. Salt and independence

14. Liberté, egalité, tax breaks

15. Preserving independence

16. The war between the salts

17. Red salt

Part 3. Sodium's perfect marriage

18. The odium of sodium

19. The mythology of geology

20. The soil never sets on ..

21. Salt and the great soul

22. Not looking back

23. The last salt days of Zigong

24. Ma, La, and Mao

25. More salt than fish

26. Big salt, little salt