Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky

[melissajm]

I've just started reading this. I wouldn't have thought a book about salt could be so fascinating. It's like the History Channel mixed with Iron Chef and narrated by Alton Brown, and it's got all kinds of cool facts for writers.

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[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

My little salt shaker has an expiration date. If you get to that part, please post...

For me, there's just something too funny about an expiration date on salt.

[marshall-payne.livejournal.com]

Oh, salt can get old. After a few eons, I think. :)

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

Well, this one musta came from a bad mine -- it expires sometime in 2011.

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

It's the additives that expire in salt, like iodine. Salt by itself does not.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thanks.

[will-couvillier.livejournal.com]

Well, there goes my illusions of being funny, again!

::defensive::

I crack me up!

: )

[alaneer.livejournal.com]

You crack me up, too, but I just thought Missy might want to know.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Sure! Why not be educated AND amused? ;)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

How can a rock, and a known preservative, go bad?

[marshall-payne.livejournal.com]

How can a rock, and a known preservative, go bad?

I don't know about a rock, but what about a rocker. Keith Richards must eat a lot of salt. ;)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Rockers can go bad. The wood can warp and they can need reupholstering. (sp?) ;)

[marshall-payne.livejournal.com]

Great comeback! We can put Keith in the rocker when he's too old to play Pirate of the Carribean or Rock Star anymore. *G*

"reupholstering" Word sp ck gave it an okay. ;)

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[shamshir-tin.livejournal.com]

I love books on minerals and rocks. It's so amazing how something so seemingly plain, (though obviously historically important,) could have a book made after it.

[jcdrainville.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great book. I love it when things that seem boring and/or taken for granted, end up being fantastically interesting. :D

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Finished it. I'm ALMOST tempted to buy "Cod," by the same author, but that doesn't have the same element of the familiar to me.