
Salt in Bacon & the Art of Living By Eben van Tonder 21 June 2021

Introduction
In Bacon & the Art of Living, I dedicate three chapters to salt. It remains one of my favourite study subjects. The truth is that I only scratched the surface. It is a subject that I will return to often and I am planning to expand on Chapter 10.12, The Salt of the Land and the Sea. Here I present the three chapters for those who are interested in a more thematic study.
Chapters on Salt
- Chapter 10.11: The Salt of the Earth
- Chapter 10.12: The Salt of the Land and the Sea
- Chapter 10.13: The Salt of Meat
Further Reading
I have written far more about the subject than is presented in my book on bacon. Those who are interested in exploring this fascinating subject further are directed to the following articles, all of which I used in compiling the three chapters listed above.
- The Salt Bridge
- 01. Salt – 7000 years of meat-curing
- 02. Nitrate salt’s epic journey: From Turfan in China, through Nepal to North India
- 03. And then the mummies spoke!
- 04. The Sal Ammoniac Project
- 05. An Introduction to the Total Work on Salt, Saltpeter and Sal Ammoniac – Salt before the Agricultural Revolution
- 06. Searching for Salt in New Zealand
- 07. Concerning the lack of salt industry in pre-European New Zealand and other tales from Polynesia and the region
- 08. Salt and the Ancient People of Southern Africa
- 09. The impact of Sodium Bicarbonate and the Twaing Impact Crater
- 10. The Stories of Salt
- 11. Builders of the Stone Ruins – From Antiquity to the Pô
- 12. Salt Bush
- 13. Ancient Stone Ruins Coming to Life
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