Paige Simard’s Reviews > Salt: A World History > Status Update

I genuinely thought the picture of the countryside bamboo piping in Sichuan was a rollercoaster… they literally put it up on beams and an infrastructure that looks like a rollercoaster

Mannn Li Bing was fuckin it up. He made the first ever dam AND the first brine well in Sichuan. What a baller for his time

fermenting with salt = pickling; fermenting without salt = alcohol
WOOWW I genuinely knew this but never really made the connection in my head

hmmm didn’t know lactic acid was a preservative…

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

huh, so odd that agricultural tribes (not hunting tribes) would trade for salt to add it to their diet—since a high vegetable diet is high in potassium and low in sodium chloride. They subconsciously knew they needed more salt in their diet as compared to other tribes and instinctively added it. WILDDD

“Loyalty and friendship are sealed with salt because its essence does not change. Even dissolved into liquid, salt can be evaporated back into square crystals.” Stopppp that is so poetic! And even more poetic knowing me and Nelly’s friendship is joined together with salt and vinegar chips & salty French fries

“Salt is a chemical term for a substance procured by the reaction of an acid and a base” OH GOD NOT OCHEM COMING BACK TO HAUNT ME

So cool to say that an interest in salt is sexually charged. “The Romans, Jones pointed out, called a man in love salax, in a salted state, which is the origin of the word salacious.”