The Letter
One dish or one craft at a time
A letter in the manner of the Honest Broker: what the book found, what it could not confirm, and one thing to do at the bench this week. Before the books are out it is how they find their readers. After, it is how the log finds its checkers.
- No. 1 The salt in your blood planned from Chapter 11 Salt
Why nine grams to the litre is the measure every brine in the kitchen is set against, and how to make a salinometer from a glass tube and lead shot.
- No. 2 The city is a mine planned from Chapter 2 The City Is a Mine
Ten to fourteen tonnes of steel a person, and how to read the spark.
- No. 3 The cow is a village animal planned from Chapter 8 The Cow, the Pig and the Hen
Two point seven hectares of grass, and why a household on sand keeps goats.