Salt

A world history missing the usual places, Salt is nevertheless an engaging look into the many different cultures and contexts in which salt has featured in our past. From China to the Americas, humans have been making salt as long as we've been farming, if not longer, and our relationship to the simple little rock is anything but simple.

So much good, awesome history. No bullshit, ample science as well as culinary interest

Было бы замечательно как сборник занимательных фактов, но книга пытается показать даже наверное не историю соли как, гм, явления, а мировую историю — через призму соли как определяющего фактора во многих поворотных моментах, и для этого коммитмента не хватает ни ей, ни мне.

Dry reading, which is funny, since it's about salt. Also i feel like maybe the editing screed this book, some parts felt like they should have been closer together, and the book didn't seem to tell a cohesive story of salt.