Chapter 7: Friday's Salt Flashcards
The medieval __________ ________ forbade the eating of meat on religious days, and, in the seventh century, the number of these days was dramatically expanded.
Catholic Church
The _________ ______, a custom started in the fourth century, was increased to 40 days, and in addition to all ________, the day of Christ’s __________, were included.
Lenten fast; Fridays; crucifixon
On _____ days, ____ was forbidden, and eating was to be limited to one meal.
lean; sex
By the seventh century, the __________ built stone towers on high points of land along their coast.
Basques
“Viking” is a term—thought to have its root in the old ______ “_____,” meaning “to go off”—for Scandinavians who left their native land to seek wealth in commerce.
Norse; vika
Vikings held territory in the vicinity of the ______ and ______ Rivers. The ninth-century Vikings also maintained a base along the _______ River on the northern border of Basque provinces.
Thames; Loire; Adour
The Vikings built better ships with _________ _______.
overlapping planks
Less than a century after arriving in the Adour, a band of Vikings settled __________ and them moved on to _________ and from there, by the year 1000, to __________.
Iceland; Greenland; Newfoundland
In 1976, the ruins of a Basque _________ _______ were discovered on the coast of Labrador.
whaling station (Remember that the Basques were known for their commercialization of whaling.)
William Brownrigg, who wrote “The Art of Making Common Salt,” where he referred to a Bay salt that was imported from France. By “Bay salt,” he meant ______-__________ sea salt. The Germans called it “__________.”
solar-evaporated: Baysalz
The people of Brittany are ______, speaking a language derived from the language of __________.
Celts; Vercingetorix
In 1557, 1,200 salt ships from other __________ ports came to Le _______, the rugged port by the opening of the marshy inland sea.
European; Croisic
Irish ______ _____ became a staple in Pacific islands visited by the British navy, where it is called ____.
corned beef; keg
The ________ region specialized in salted fish, including hake, skate, _______, and eel.
Guérande (France); mullet
The salt intake of Europeans, much of it in the form of salted fish, rose from ______ grams a day per person in the sixteenth century to _______ grams in the eighteenth century.
forty; seventy
