Salt

Closed, opens at 11amIndependent shop in FremontDirections

Available from Book Larder when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A New York Times bestselling Kurlansky fan favorite, celebrating its 25th year: The unlikely history of the world through a grain of salt—now with a handsome new package and foreword. Homer called salt a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. Today we take it for granted: a common substance that seasons food and clears ice from roads. But as Mark Kurlansky relates in his classic book, salt—the only rock we eat—has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Through