Ah, the days of the salad. The first paragraph is the familiar Plebeian-Patrician thing. This is good because it is not salt related, and it does not confuse me. However, the last chapter had more about history and less about salt, so i should be careful what i wish for.
The last chapter was TERRIBLE.
Romans liked to eat very strange parts of cattle, mostly the rich ones. Everyone has the right to be salted though, AMEN. Where does K get his information? I am not familiar with a salt reference book... i'm not questioning his credibility, but what the heck?!
Salt is like gas, they manipulate the citizens with it. Except gas is less than edible, way more expensive now, and used as fuel. Plus it's a liquid and it smells weird/good....... Salary is like salt. Sal is salt in Spanish. When i make this connection, i realize that the "t" is unnecessary. The Spaniards know what's up. I'm glad i don't get paid in salt, i would not make much money......
Did people honestly prescribe salted fish intestines? Or is Mr. K. making good use of his creative writing license? The recipe is far too complicated, i'll never be cured. In other recipes, Apicus made a delish molded dish with LOVAGE. I'm feeling muh brother. Feelin the lovage.
This chapter is longer than i thought. I have two more chapters to blog, and mine are always way too long anyway. Hasta like 20 minutes.
Is the next blog allowed to contain two chapters?
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"more about history" Last I checked this was a blog for history class.
Mr. K researched the book. You may want to check the end part of the book, where he sites various sources?
Salt like gas was something Dale talked about in her blog. But yes, it was used to manipulate currency and stuff. One part I liked about this chapter was the origin of every day words.
Salted fish parts, and sardines were quite a delicacy back in the day. They actually used to smear fish guts on bread. Salt was the way to preserve this spread. Perhaps we would never want to eat this today in our culture, but that didn't hold true elsewhere.
"Is the next blog allowed to contain two chapters?"
Answer- No.
Mr. Farrell
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