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.

Comments

[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? ;)