Chapter 9: A Well-Salted Hexagon Flashcards
________ had a remarkable diversity of climates, __________, and cultures.
France; topography
_____ __________, as the French would come to call it, bordered the Lowlands, the ______, the Alps, the __________, the Pyrenees, the Atlantic, and the English Channel (bordered six regions, hence the name, which denotes its geometric composition).
The Hexagon; Rhine; Mediterranean
French kingdoms were set with huge, ornate “_____,” ships, in this case jeweled vessels holding ____.
nefs; salt
The medieval _______, like the _________, believed that the presence of ________ could be destructive to fermentation.
French; Chinese; women
Cato suggested that _______ would live long, healthy lives if they washed their ________ in the ______ of a cabbage eater.
women; genitals; urine
Gross.
The word “________,” with the root “als,” may have originally meant, “_____ of salt.”
Alsace; land
By the early eighteenth century, the _______ had their own word for surkrut: “_________.”
French; socrotes
The Mediterranean saltworks shipped their products up the ________ as far as ______.
Rhône; Lyon
This kind of cheese is said to have been created when a young shepherd boy left his lunch of cheese and rye bread in a cave for weeks.
Roquefort, a sheep milk blue cheese, which is characterized by its aging process and distinctive veins of green mold.
The people of __________ (a country on the Mediterranean coast, near the Spanish border) lived on selling _____ and _______ fish. Here, fishing boats were known as “_________,” and were painted in bright ________ colors.
Collioure; wine; salted; catalans; primary
The bubonic plague, which killed an approximate 75 million people, as much as half the populace of Europe, spared the fishing village of _________, supposedly because its stockpiles of salt for _________ made the town immune.
Collioure; anchovies
The _______ _______ attached such importance to the commercial potential of Collioure salted fish that the town was exempted from any _____ _____.
French Crown; salt tax
