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Like wine and chocolate, salt is fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $50 a kilogram. There's gray salt, red salt, French salt, Spanish salt, Italian salt, Portuguese salt, salt with algae, salt mixed with herbs, even smoked salt. Such a wide variety was the norm up until the 20th century, when the U.S. firm Morton Salt used an evaporator to make salt white, fine and uniform, says Mark Kurlansky, author of Salt: A World History. "It's an irony of history," he says. "What saltmakers wanted to do was to have this consistent...
Elizabeth A. Gray, secretary to the CCSR, explained the committee often abstains when it supports an issue in principle but has qualms with the specific wording of a proposal...
...proxies should be clear and direct,” Gray said. “If they are ambiguous, they become increasingly difficult to support...
Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...
...planning of Allston is on [Spiegelman’s] plate. Our people get involved in the institution and managing of the Allston project, but not the planning. We do manage all the property already purchased in Allston,” Gray said...