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Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food
Infants who were suckled by the same wet nurse were regarded as milk siblings and were forbidden by the Assyrians from intermarrying.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
Nobody can easily bring together a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
A 1670 revision of the criminal code found yet another use for salt in France. To enforce the law against suicide, it was ordered that the bodies of people who took their own lives be salted, brought before a judge, and sentenced to public display. Nor could the accused escape their day
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Mark Kurlansky _ The Food of a Younger Land:
Boil 15 large potatoes in jackets. When done peel and rice them, letting them cool about 5 minutes, then add 2 eggs, 1½ cups of flour, 1 teaspoon salt and roll into balls and roll balls in flour. Have a pot of boiling water on the fire, place the dumplings in the water that has been salted and boil for 10 minutes, remove and serve. Hasenpfeffer and Kartoffel Klösze are generally served together but either can be served separate or with other food.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food
Our galaxy is called the Milky Way, and both it and the word "galaxy" have their origins in the Greek word for milk, gala.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride. Wherever records exist of humans in different stages of development, as in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North America, it is generally found that hunter tribes neither made nor traded for salt but agricultural tribes did. On every continent, once human beings began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt to add to their diet.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
The Masai, nomadic cattle herders in East Africa, meet their salt needs by bleeding livestock and drinking the blood. But vegetable diets, rich in potassium, offer little sodium chloride.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
In Welsh tradition, a plate was put on the coffin with bread and salt, and a local professional sin eater arrived to eat the salt.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
Kement a zo fall, a gar ar sall"-Everything that is not good asks to be salted. Everything from meat to butter to potatoes was salted. Salt was Brittany's cheapest product, the one everyone could afford. Another Breton proverb was "Aviz hag holen a roer d'an nep a c'houlenn"-Advice and salt are available to anyone who wants it.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
Despite the fame of their bright clothing, Celts are described going naked into battle except for horned helmets. We are told that they had frightening war cries and that the terrifying songs of their ancestors were preludes to violent attacks.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food
French butter makes better pastry than American butter because it contains more fat and less water.
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Mark Kurlansky _ Salt: A World History
epithet of the drunkard's biscuit.
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