The Book of Salt his place in the household hierarchy." The book uses salt and its many connotations to connect themes of love and redemption. Food also adds to the meaning of salt in this context. Truong herself states that "Food or the preparation of food, at its best, is a profound act of intimacy." Salt also implies homosexuality in terms of the Biblical connotation of salt, in particular to the turning of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt for looking back at her home, to the city of Sodom. This is an implication that God not only disapproves the activities of the
Covenant of salt Covenant of salt The phrase covenant of salt appears twice in the Hebrew bible: In the Book of Numbers, God's covenant with the Aaronic priesthood is said to be a covenant of salt. In the second book of Chronicles, God's covenant with the Davidic kings of Israel is also described as a covenant of salt. According to the "New Oxford Annotated Bible", "of salt" most likely means that the covenant is "a perpetual covenant, because of the use of salt as a preservative". The commandments regarding grain offerings in the Book of Leviticus state "every offering of your grain offering