If they’re ill, charge them extra
James Meek: Flamingo Plucking, 21 March 2002
Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 452 pp., £17.99, February 2002,0 224 06084 8 Show More
by Mark Kurlansky.
Cape, 452 pp., £17.99, February 2002,
Salt: Grain of Life
by Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary Beth Mader.
Columbia, 220 pp., £15.95, July 2001,0 231 12198 9 Show More
by Pierre Laszlo, translated by Mary Beth Mader.
Columbia, 220 pp., £15.95, July 2001,
“... died, leaving Lake Onondaga so polluted with calcium carbonate and mercury that it would take, Pierre Laszlo reports, an estimated $600 million to clean up. Of all the iniquities associated with humanity’s need for salt and greed for money, and many more are discussed in these nuggetty books, the French salt tax, the gabelle – not completely done ... ”