The Story of Salt

The obligate suggested for this take for report is The story of salt scripted by the author Mark Kurlansky. The book in whole educates muckle or so the significance of a simple element salt. This book is not just for the adults but also for the teenagers and the primary train students. This book introduces the readers with the common facts that had been off-beat. This book is reviewed on a large scale and recommended by many of its readers. close to the author The author of this book Mark Kurlansky is well-known among the book lovers.He has been awarded with the James Beard demonstrate for Excellence in Food Writing. His many writing includes A biography of fish which changed the view. And this is an achievement in itself, if a book writer really changes ones perspective towards any subject (The stochastic House Group, 2009). The roughly common feature in his books is salt. Just for the sake of knowing the facts about salt and how does this substance can really change the c ontemporary picture of the world, he travelled to many countries in the world.The countries he visited are China, Middle East, and Africa. Mark Kurlansky writing pieces includes, The big oyster, The last fish baloney, 1968 (the year when the world was rocked) and many more (Random House, INC, 2009). These writing pieces by the author have focused the fare and greatly salt. In this paper will discuss his book The story of the salt About the book This book deals with the ubiquitous and such a simple substance, salt. How salt helped the nuances to evolve and how it bring change in the miserliness in the World.Salt is the substance which can make a country become the most powerful. In this book the significance of the salt tells all the facts and secrets has been revealed. Salt is most important to superpowers like the States to control the world. This book reveals that how important salt is for the pitying body. Illustrations This book contains many vibrant, attention-grabbing and supportive illustrations with text which do it easy for the readers to understand the importance of the simple substance salt.There are illustrations symbolizing the contrary civilization and the use of the salt in their era. Main Idea At first when salt was used in the meals with meat and other types of meat (white meat, beef) but its industrial use got raise when salt was discovered as the best preservative. And thats when the use of the salt became more common. Almost every states economy is greatly affected (in raise or loss) by the frozen food for thought because of the new trends of intake of food. the States in particular has the industry of frozen food selling on the highest score (Kurlansky, 2006).The question that arises in our minds is that if the salt was not discovered as a preservative, then how it would be the state of the frozen food cultured economies? This shows the evident importance of the salt in the economic affairs of the state. Did you ever thought about when using the table salt? In this book Mark provided records of the first use of salt different countries. For warning, China started its production for salt nearly 8000 B. C before. Mark introduces to the foodie culture of China that they distribute salt setly on their food (Kurlansky, 2006).This book also deals with many famous bodies from the history knobbed in the history of salt. For example, Gandhi was the one who broke the law of Britain regarding salt which damaged their trade of salt. Another example from the book is of Clarence Birdseye. He is the biggest name in the market of frozen foods (Kurlansky, 2006). This book also tells about the phenomenon of colonialism which was greatly affected or being revolutionized by the salt. The salt trade helped those states which had their salt sources on the list.And when war broke out, the colonists had to find their mass of salt in order to track back their colonialism (Kurlansky, 2006). Mark in this book takes us back to the beginning of the time when prior to civilizations, men as a vagrant and bun stone use to wonder in the world to find the salt masses which was and is necessary for the human bodies. In the search men discovered many other natural resources so titling that salt was the yard behind the discoveries of worlds many important land recourses (Kurlansky, 2006).This book holds record from all the outside(a) history as well as political history of different states and how these states gathered their sources on the tush of mass of salts. Salt is called as the key for the explorations era. Salt was used by many countries for different purpose. For example, how the people of Egypt used salt as a preserver for keeping the bodies of their kings and emperors fresh and preserved. Salt was greatly consumed for this background (Kurlansky, 2006). Ketchup is commonly used with every food, especially in the regions America, Europe and Mexico.A very interest point to note from the book is that how sa lt helped making the ketchup. Because Mark was a food writer too, he included ketchup in a very witty style in his book with the right illustrations to go with it. Therefore reading the text from the book it is quite evident that choosing such a guinea pig and to describe it in such a good way really help him deserves the best progeny of the hard work. This book The Story of Salt is the best seller by Mark. Moreover the authors goal specifically in this book is to educate people about the little facts that are of slight importance to them. And he is successful in this regard.