Salt: A world history
This is the definitive textbook on salt. That should be a good thing but the keyword is textbook. I loved the first three chapters of this book. I really enjoyed learning how man discovered salt, how people quickly learned how to adapt salt to preserve food. I found it fascinating learning how the Chinese discovered that they could use natural gas to boil brine from wells deep in the earth to make salt.
Then my love of learning about salt started to fade. I learned how caviar was discovered and every single detail of the four common kinds of sturgeon. I … Continue Reading