Victoria College | The Northrop Frye Centre Distinguished Lecture

L. Sasha Gora | Salt, Stories, and Other Survival Skills

The Northrop Frye Centre Distinguished Lecture

The story is the spice, it’s the seasoning, the salt, says one chef. It is stories that flavour food—something to think about every time a recipe instructs you to “salt to taste.” But salt does not season food alone. Salt spikes the water. It lines the rocks. It thickens the air. Salt behaves and misbehaves in terms of where it shows up, and how much of it. Just as climate change is largely a story about water—too much in some places, too little elsewhere, and temperatures that are too high—salt traces environments past, present, and future. Braiding together salt, stories, and other survival skills, cultural historian and writer L. Sasha Gora will present a lecture about preservation, time, and environmental futures.

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