http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/01/has-the-food-fetish-gone-too-far/ A Heaping Helping of Food News, Science and Culture Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2011/01/has-the-food-fetish-gone-too-far/comment-page-1/#comment-3950 WilliamB Fri, 21 Jan 2011 01:33:52 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/?p=7923#comment-3950 Kurlansky's book is awfully interesting. Salt used to be so important and hard to get that it was a medium of exchange (the root of the word "salary," salt being what Roman soldiers were paid), the economic basis of more than one major city (Salzburg - salt city), and rather useful in cooking. In my opinion salt has a better claim to a whole book than some other foods I've read about, including cod, potatoes, and mushrooms. Kurlansky’s book is awfully interesting. Salt used to be so important and hard to get that it was a medium of exchange (the root of the word “salary,” salt being what Roman soldiers were paid), the economic basis of more than one major city (Salzburg – salt city), and rather useful in cooking. In my opinion salt has a better claim to a whole book than some other foods I’ve read about, including cod, potatoes, and mushrooms.

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