Beatrice Hopkinson  wrote:

> Lampreys were abundant where we lived in England which was at Droitwich,
> in Worcestershire - an ancient salt town.
> Its where I first got interested in salt!
>

 Have you read Mark Kurlansky's _Salt: A World History_? He believes that
salt, cod and the Basques were more or less the motors of the development
of western civilisation, and has written a book on each of these. He writes
so passionately that you believe his claims, for a while. And there is much
curious information.

RH

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