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...began to be preserved with salt. In the course of his research, he became friends with several "salt historians," who have made the common rock their lives' work. It's not surprising to learn that Americans eat more salt than anyone else, and probably too much. Kurlansky, a former newspaperman at the International Herald Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer, has had to endure a certain number of quipsters who want to know whether his next book will be about pepper. That's okay, says Kurlansky: "After 'Cod,' they wanted to know if my next book was going to be 'Tuna...
...change. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...change. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...
...When love actually triumphs (after the long journey in which Gable's newspaperman has almost prudishly refused to take advantage of Ellie's ardor and has declined her father's reward of $10,000), it is the victory of an ordinary American's honor over the opulent phoniness of too much money and of gaudily dishonest media...
...that had converted to the Muslim faith—and suppressed their own traditions—had ravaged their own cultures. His best (and funniest) novel, A House for Mister Biswas, tells how an Indian-Trinidadian ascends from the pathetic life of a schlemiel to limited success as a newspaperman in colonial Port-of-Spain...