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ThorstenNesch , 9 months ago to random

I joined today. - Any suggestions what accounts I should #followfriday ? - my interests are songwriter music & literature.

luca_lichen , 10 months ago to bookstadon

if only someone would write an excellent book about salt.

oh, they did, 20 years ago. just discovered this book, and it's a very good read.

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<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/16/historybooks.highereducation>

"Let me hasten to add that Salt turns out to be far from boring. With infectious enthusiasm, Kurlansky leads the reader on a 5,000-year sodium chloride odyssey through China, India, Egypt, Japan, Morocco, Israel, Africa, Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, England, Scandinavia, France and the US, highlighting the multifarious ways in which this unassuming chemical compound has profoundly influenced people's lives. Time and again, salt emerges as a pivotal player in the drama of human history, defining and structuring the relationships between the have-salts and the have-nots, and occasionally even shaping the geography of whole nations.

"For example, the unusual arrangement of roads visible on any detailed map of North America is largely the result of a desire for salt. The roads were originally trails made by animals, tracing the easiest route to and from a salt lick of some kind. Frequently pockmarked with deep holes excavated over thousands of years by millions of eager tongues, such dining areas are found all over the continent. Eventually villages were built at the licks and the trails connecting them widened and covered with tarmac. One such site near Lake Erie lay at the end of a sinuous path carved out by the feet of buffalo. The village constructed on the lick is now known as Buffalo, New York."