Salt: A World History
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Narrated by Scott Brick
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About this audiobook
Mark Kurlansky
Mark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling author of Havana, Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, and The Big Oyster, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit's Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The International Herald Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, Partisan Review, Harper’s, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Audubon Magazine, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Parade. He lives in New York City. www.markkurlansky.com
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Reviews for Salt
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Too little world history, lots of recipes. Also seem to mostly be anecdotes rather than a full work.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extremely interesting and informative book written in very comprehensible way. Brilliant book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A good story of this world told by a different point of view: how salt shaped us and how this neglected ingredient always took for granted plays a important role in our evolution