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

no frickin way, mummies from Saqqara and Thebes that were taken to Cairo were taxed as SALTED FISH before being allowed to enter the city… whaaattt

wow apparently King Tut’s tomb is the most elaborate and well preserved tomb ever found. It even has a bronze knife for the symbolic umbilical cord cutting, as well as shrines containing cups of the two vital ingredients for preserving mummies: resin & natron (“the divine salt” of the Egyptians)

OKAYYY the Egyptians invented raised bread. So what I’m hearing is the ancient Egyptians were the first sourdough girlies mmhmm

Danggg the Egyptians tried to domesticate so many types of animals: hyenas (crazy why would you want to eat that, they didn’t but still), antelope, gazelle, oryx and ibex

the concept of paying the people who built the pyramids of Giza in $2 million worth of garlic and onions (and radishes)***

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…

“A recurring idea throughout the ancient world from the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia, fish fermented in salt was one of the most popular salt condiments in ancient China.” 🐟🐠