Barges transporting this good traveled north from Lüneberg (“LOON-burgh”) across the Stecknitz Canal on its namesake “old trade route.” Breton women often donned faux culs (“fo cue”) to smuggle this good across the Loire and into Anjou. Saint Kinga of Hungary legendarily traded her wedding ring for this good while visiting Wieliczka (“v’yeh-LEECH-ka”). The Doomsday Book recorded houses that produced this good in Cheshire’s “-wich” towns. Guérande (“gay-RAWND”) employed thousands of paludiers to harvest this good, which Jean-Baptiste Colbert taxed with his codification of the gabelle. The Hallein mine supplied this good to a namesake Austrian city. The British Raj’s monopoly on native production of this good prompted Gandhi to organize a 1930 protest march to Dandi. For 10 points, name this good used to preserve and flavor food. ■END■
ANSWER: salt [or table salt or rock salt or sea salt; accept halite; accept sodium chloride or NaCl; accept sodium carbonate or Na2CO3(“N-A-2-C-O-3”) or soda ash] (Salt was smuggled out of Brittany since it was a pays exempts gabelles province.)
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