Status Updates From Salt: A World History

Not the Celts starting the long standing Western Thanksgiving tradition of salt cured ham.. at least I think it’s a holiday tradition—ham

MUMMIES IN CHINA??? Oh dawg I gotta hear about this

Omg the Celts sounds just like how Leigh Bardugo described the character Matthias Helvar in the Six of Crows duology: “huge and terrifying men in bright fabrics…very tall is stature, with rippling muscles under clear white skin. Their hair is blond, but not naturally so. They bleach it…”

“Africans became so accustomed to their impure salts… that when Europeans in the age of colonialism introduced pure sodium chloride, Africans mixed it with other salts to make salt compounds more to their liking.” damnnnn, and this is why we say perspective is everything. They were just used to using impure salts bc that’s what they had

No wayyy camel transport was started across the Sahara desert to transport salt from Taoudenni to Timbuktu (435 miles)