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...never-ending search for foods to be snobby about, gourmets have finally got to salt. Like wine and chocolate, salt is fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $25 a pound. 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 Morton's 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...
...answer is to get smart about how we use water. Agriculture accounts for about two-thirds of the fresh water consumed. A report prepared for the summit thus endorses the "more crop per drop" approach, which calls for more efficient irrigation techniques, planting of drought- and salt-tolerant crop varieties that require less water and better monitoring of growing conditions, such as soil humidity levels. Improving water-delivery systems would also help, reducing the amount that is lost en route to the people...
...jaguar reserve in Belize and a national park in Myanmar. In Hkakabo Razi National Park in northern Myanmar, Rabinowitz discovered that locals were hunting wildlife, particularly red pandas and leaf deer, in far greater numbers than were needed for food. People were swapping the skins with Chinese traders for salt, which does not occur naturally in the area. So Rabinowitz instituted a salt-distribution program. At a cost of less than $5,000 a year, the 3,000 people in the park now get enough salt to make hunting for barter unnecessary...
...connected Tokhtakhounov to the Salt Lake caper until May, when the fbi obtained and translated wiretaps that the Italians recorded during the Olympics. Imagine their surprise at hearing Tokhtakhounov spell out his Olympic machinations. The U.S. issued a complaint charging him with two counts of conspiracy to commit sports bribery, and Italy slapped him into a Venice jail to await extradition. "He is astonished at the accusations," said his Italian lawyer Luca Saldarelli. "He is not interested in ice skating...
...Organic" means that all ingredients meet or exceed USDA specifications, which ban the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics and hormones. No artificial preservatives or other additives are allowed, except salt and water...