Salt

It's hard for anyone today to imagine that salt was so highly valued as it once was.

The whole science of geology grew up on salt. Geology was basically the science of finding salt.

The reason for this relationship is that very solid deposits of salt, which are called salt domes, are impenetrable.

Until the beginning of the 20th century and then a discovery was made that there was a relationship between salt and oil.

Salt has often been regarded as strategic. In British government policy it tells you something about the British government. They were always more concerned with salt as a strategic commodity than they were with it as a commercial commodity.

It's hard for anyone today to imagine that salt was so highly valued as it once was.

The entire food trade depended on salt... and in pre-industrial society that was a very large part of trade. So it's not an exaggeration to say that without salt you couldn't have an international economy.

The chiefest most efficient way to make salt if you live in a sunny climate is to just take seawater and dam it off into pounds and let it sit there in the sun and eventually all the water will evaporate.

The whole science of geology grew up on salt. Geology was basically the science of finding salt.

Salt has often been regarded as strategic... Queen Elizabeth I warned the English people of their dangerous dependency on French sea salt.

In my world, for sure, being familiar with Mark's book Cod and his book Salt, which seemed to make its way onto every coffee table and bookshelf in the country.

Being familiar with Mark's book, Cod and his book Salt, which seemed to make its way onto every coffee table and bookshelf in the country.

Mark Krolansky has a great book called Salt, where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name. But it looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in salt, which is where we get the phrase, cough it up to pay for something or worth his salt, which I don't know if people still say that.

Shout out to Mark Kulansky, author of the book, Salt's Redid, if you haven't yet.

Mark Krolansky has a great book called Salt, where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name. But it looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in salt, which is where we get the phrase, cough it up to pay for something or worth his salt, which I don't know if people still say that.