Status Updates From 万用之物：盐的故事

Me every other sentence “Wowwww”

vegetable diets rich in potassium offer little sodium chloride. Wherever records exist of humans in different stages of development it is generally found that hunter tribes neither made nor traded for salt but agricultural tribes did. On every continent, once human beings began cultivating crops, they began looking for salt to add to their diet. How they learned of this need is a mystery.

okay how many of us have this book on our tbr because of the algorithm?

wooow, the Chinese actually harvested salt crystals that dried in the summer heat from a lake—Lake Yuncheng—and would even fight for control over the lake