Well the Chinese are pretty proud of their salt, so much so they think they are the only ones who "invented" it.
They used salt for many things, such as soy sauce. It's pronounced differently in the western world but its all the same. If I am ever lost in a desert, I'll make sure I have soy, salt, and water because I can live longer with the goodness of soy and salt.
I'm just a bit confused about pickling and salting rice. You are NEVER suppose to salt your rice, big no no, but you pickle the vegetables in salt and then put the salted vegetables on the rice. So technically they were salting the rice?!? But they were inovators. I wish I could have an egg for 200 days and only have it turn a little green and smell disgusting, but atleast it would still be edible..Yum.
I guess inventing the dam is pretty cool. He must have been a smart chinese man to make a dam and then later created the first brine well. I always thought too much brine and salt was bad for you, but I guess I was wrong. But anyway, I think they used their nature resources to help with the transportation of salt. I never knew bamboo would not rot when salt was run through it. Then out of no where, they invented chinese powder which is actually gun powder. But the Arabs stole that idea.
Salt started the first monopoly..that's pretty hardcore. They kept raising the price of salt and put tax on it. Then that caused the price of iron to go up since salt is in iron. After they war from the huns, the monopolies were put back into effect. Yay monopolies.
Well uh. As you can probably tell I thought this first chapter was a treat. I did not think it would actually be about salt. I don't care how salt was found and used, sorry chineses. Salt is in everything, this I know. If all the chapters are like this I will probably burn the book. I just do not get it at all. It was not even about on specific event. I'm dreading reading the rest of this book. I think we should have read a book about sugar. I care more about sugar than salt because salt causes heart attacks and strokes.
I did NOT like this chapter at all. Blog ya next time. :)
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millie, i appreciate you. how horribly honest you were regarding salt. everyone likes sugar except diabetics, and it is necessary for life too...
i invented salt, to tell you the truth.
this book is full of suck. i don't know how to comment on it nicely.
next time, summarize way more and very accurately. and it'll be oh so helpful for me. i'm scared to admit that the good earth was way better than this.
peace out girl scout.
Haha wow. Well at least I tried to give it a chance Millie. I agree about pretty much everything you said though...I just tried to word it a little nicer :)
I think that Lori sums it up the best in the first paragraph of her comment. There are many things the first chapter was full of (salt, suck, salt, the Chinese, salt, soy sauce, salt, salt, salt, and more salt).
I think that if I was a salt enthusiast I would find this far more entertaining. Unfortunately, I'm not. Thus, I'm not particularly loving this book. My eyes were bleeding a little after I finished it. Hahah, okay, not really. But my brain was full of salty mush. I felt like someone had mentally tasered me. Or sent a really nasty curse my way. And it was salty. Very, very salty.
I'm not sure this book is worth its salt.
Harhar. I love making salty word plays.
yo dawg, i completely agree
i suggest a book about sugar
and the lovely wonders it causes the taste buds
reguarding the salt;
you were rather harsh on the salt
i think its okay
i mean i did learn some things i never knew
although, did i really need to know them?
You make some good observations about the Chinese, but be careful not to ramble. Stay focused with your blog.
Salting the rice must be a folkway or some type of cultural practice (no-no), but pickled veges are used mainly because the salt preseves them from rotting I guess. I agree with your point though, about putting them on the rice. No big deal right?
This chapter does show us a lot about Chinese inventions, and how salt played a role. I know your class just got done reading about the Joy Luck Club?
Despite your opinion of the book, I expect an honors student to be able to read something I assign without complaining. Sometimes learning is fun, and sometimes it isn't. Not everything we read has to be "entertaining", and if you are planning on going to college you had best get used to this.
Mr. Farrell
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