the celts and their codfish.<3awh
in all seriousness, i had never really heard of the celts before this chapter. well possibly in conversation once or twice, but really had no idea who they were.
first connection to salt and the celts, bodys of celts who had been mining salt were found preserved, which i think is very neat. the salt had preserved the bodies, somewhat like it preserved the vegetables and such. anyway the men were most likely trapped by a collapse, somewhat like those that have happened in our area in the past few years. i think finding these bodies would be cool, yet very discusting at the same time. perhaps i will look into a career of looking for preserved bodies.
they salted pigs! i love the celts. their specialty was actually salted meats, which is great because i love ham. the celts were very smart for being considered barbaric. they mined salt at very steep angles. this was a good idea because the salt was closer to get to this way. good thinking guys. i didn't learn about measuring angles til about the third grade so they at least had the eduaction of a third grader to be able to do this. just kidding celts.
because they were big salt miners, many of their tools seemed to keep getting rusty, unlike salad fingers they did not like their tools rusty. [RUSTY SPOONS!] they discovered that bronze did not rust, so they began making their mining tools out of this. they were also great iron workers, on runescape my iron working skill was always quite high, perhaps i was always meant to be a celt, which is depressing i was hoping for a spartan.
basically the celts had many great inventions, which i am glad they get credit for, because one of the great roman emporers decided to attack the celts take their land and ideas. i still love you celts.
this chapter was surprisingly interesting. salt<3
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
NaCl^2
yay egyptians.
this chapter was more about what they did with the salt then the salt in general, which i liked. the egyptians did however make something similiar to soy sauce, i thought we had moved on from the chinese.
those egyptians loved to use salt. especially on foods, vegetables and fish. the rich egyptians used natron to be mummified and the poor used sodium chloride aka NaCl, which i obviously love. in most cultures sodium chloride was used by the rich because it was thought to be better, but those egyptians were kind of screwy. mummification was a big deal to these guys, and good ol' NaCl made it a whole lot easier for this to work, as did those lovely eye onions. YUM.
for a while in this chapter i actually forgot the book was titled salt. this means that mr. k did a great job of interesting me, for once. i really do like reading about those mummies they are lovely.
now onto the salting of food. egpytians loved to salt their food, just like the ol chinese they salted vegetables and put them in jars. they salted a lot of foods, except the pig! the pigs apparenlty carried leprosy and pig owners were banished. good thing i do not live in the land of the egyptians because i love those piggy's and their meat. especially sausage of the link persuasion.
the egyptians also made lovely olives, olive oil, and raised bread. mm delicious. they egyptians got their salt from evaporating water from the nile, maybe some from the mediterranean trade and defintely some from african trade. in chemistry we evaporated salt water, i felt kind of like the egyptians i suppose.
the pheonicans builts an entire empire based on salt and is still a huge salt empire today. the pheonicans traded with everyone they came into contact with. tuna fed on acorns!?
camels transported salt across africa because waterways were not available. caravans of 40,000 camels carried salt 435 miles, thats a long ways. TIMBUKTU! was a huge center of trade, not only for salt, but also for tobacco. salt is a big deal everywhere.
yay salt.
this chapter was more about what they did with the salt then the salt in general, which i liked. the egyptians did however make something similiar to soy sauce, i thought we had moved on from the chinese.
those egyptians loved to use salt. especially on foods, vegetables and fish. the rich egyptians used natron to be mummified and the poor used sodium chloride aka NaCl, which i obviously love. in most cultures sodium chloride was used by the rich because it was thought to be better, but those egyptians were kind of screwy. mummification was a big deal to these guys, and good ol' NaCl made it a whole lot easier for this to work, as did those lovely eye onions. YUM.
for a while in this chapter i actually forgot the book was titled salt. this means that mr. k did a great job of interesting me, for once. i really do like reading about those mummies they are lovely.
now onto the salting of food. egpytians loved to salt their food, just like the ol chinese they salted vegetables and put them in jars. they salted a lot of foods, except the pig! the pigs apparenlty carried leprosy and pig owners were banished. good thing i do not live in the land of the egyptians because i love those piggy's and their meat. especially sausage of the link persuasion.
the egyptians also made lovely olives, olive oil, and raised bread. mm delicious. they egyptians got their salt from evaporating water from the nile, maybe some from the mediterranean trade and defintely some from african trade. in chemistry we evaporated salt water, i felt kind of like the egyptians i suppose.
the pheonicans builts an entire empire based on salt and is still a huge salt empire today. the pheonicans traded with everyone they came into contact with. tuna fed on acorns!?
camels transported salt across africa because waterways were not available. caravans of 40,000 camels carried salt 435 miles, thats a long ways. TIMBUKTU! was a huge center of trade, not only for salt, but also for tobacco. salt is a big deal everywhere.
yay salt.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
NaCl.<3 !@#$*%
once upon a time in a land far far away mr farrell handed us a book titled salt. i was actually kind of excited i thought, "this really can't be a book about just salt. maybe it will be fun." i was wrong, dreadfully wrong. the book is about salt, never really did care for the stuff.
first off, i thought i'd read the introduction even though it wasn't assigned. bad idea i got to the second page of that and the person describing their prized salt rock said, "Those who think a fascinationw ith salt is a bizarre obssion have simply never owned a rock like this," and that was enough for me. i moved on to chapter one.
the chinese invented everything. they are the best. they have the first documented history. so on and so forth. the chinese salt history, however, started in mythological times. salt goes way back. there was a lake that people would go to and collect salt crystals, there was possibly a whole civilizations built around this "salt lake." Salt was traded, salt was used in iron, basically salt was the oil of the B.C. age. To make salt they would boil ocean water until the salt crystals appeared, we did this is chem minus the salt water did not come directly from the ocean.
the chinese do not put salt on their food especially rice. maybe thats why they have less obesity over there. Salt was used in soy sauce, which they had all these weird names for, which had the same symbol in chinese and japanese, but here in the u.s of a. we refer to it as soy sauce, so that is what i will call it. The chinese mastered the art of pickling with salt. Without salt the vegetables would just ferment, apparenlty unlike the U.S.A. again, china has much less alcholics. But i am very glad when i get married my wedding present will not be 12-15 jars of pickled vegetables, or else i would have already recieved them by now. Recipes were not so detailed back in the day either. Hard boiled eggs can be made from salt? WHAT!?
the chinese built dams and eventually discovered how to make brine wells. they used bamboo for piping because the salt prevented the bamboo from rotting, which was rather cleaver. soon these bamboo pipes were everywhere causing much chaos along the chinese countryside.
because salt was so very important, there was much controversy over this substance. there were arguments on the tax of the salt, the salt was a neccesity so should it be taxed. "DON'T TAX OUR SALT" could there have been a "bejing salt" party, but if the salt was dumped into the ocean it wouldn't quite have the same affect as the tea?
there was a monopoly on salt, which made china the j.d rockafeller of salt. the salt monopoly disapeared after 600 years, but later came back. you knew you were rich if you served pure salt at the dinner table in china. there were salt riots. things reguarding salt got ooc*. i cannot believe i just wrote that much about the salt in china. although, i think it is ridiculous to read about salt, i have to, and i think some of this information was genuinely interesting.
oh and ps. i never really did care for the chinese.
first off, i thought i'd read the introduction even though it wasn't assigned. bad idea i got to the second page of that and the person describing their prized salt rock said, "Those who think a fascinationw ith salt is a bizarre obssion have simply never owned a rock like this," and that was enough for me. i moved on to chapter one.
the chinese invented everything. they are the best. they have the first documented history. so on and so forth. the chinese salt history, however, started in mythological times. salt goes way back. there was a lake that people would go to and collect salt crystals, there was possibly a whole civilizations built around this "salt lake." Salt was traded, salt was used in iron, basically salt was the oil of the B.C. age. To make salt they would boil ocean water until the salt crystals appeared, we did this is chem minus the salt water did not come directly from the ocean.
the chinese do not put salt on their food especially rice. maybe thats why they have less obesity over there. Salt was used in soy sauce, which they had all these weird names for, which had the same symbol in chinese and japanese, but here in the u.s of a. we refer to it as soy sauce, so that is what i will call it. The chinese mastered the art of pickling with salt. Without salt the vegetables would just ferment, apparenlty unlike the U.S.A. again, china has much less alcholics. But i am very glad when i get married my wedding present will not be 12-15 jars of pickled vegetables, or else i would have already recieved them by now. Recipes were not so detailed back in the day either. Hard boiled eggs can be made from salt? WHAT!?
the chinese built dams and eventually discovered how to make brine wells. they used bamboo for piping because the salt prevented the bamboo from rotting, which was rather cleaver. soon these bamboo pipes were everywhere causing much chaos along the chinese countryside.
because salt was so very important, there was much controversy over this substance. there were arguments on the tax of the salt, the salt was a neccesity so should it be taxed. "DON'T TAX OUR SALT" could there have been a "bejing salt" party, but if the salt was dumped into the ocean it wouldn't quite have the same affect as the tea?
there was a monopoly on salt, which made china the j.d rockafeller of salt. the salt monopoly disapeared after 600 years, but later came back. you knew you were rich if you served pure salt at the dinner table in china. there were salt riots. things reguarding salt got ooc*. i cannot believe i just wrote that much about the salt in china. although, i think it is ridiculous to read about salt, i have to, and i think some of this information was genuinely interesting.
oh and ps. i never really did care for the chinese.
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