cheese is cool.

Chapter six was seriously the coolest. I love cheese, Millie doesn't though, so I'm sure she didn't like this chapter. Anyway, there were cheese masters who probed the cheese with their fingers. This puzzled me, but I won't ask questions. They knew what they were doing because, after all, they were cheese masters. We shouldn't question them and their probing. In this chapter, I also learned that a sane person should never eat salami.

I've really alarmed myself at how often I relate this book to my life. My friends might be getting annoyed at me for constantly mentioning salt and threatening to salt their fields.

I also learned several tasty recipes in chapter six, which I would add to my Salt, A World History cook book, if I had one.

marco polo?!

I was a bit disappointed about some of Marco Polos adventures not being true. Even if I don't know about any of his adventures, it's still a pretty big let down.

I got really excited when I got to read about the Chinese again, I missed them. The enjoyed their finer grained salts. This sparked my interest, but I liked the part about soy sauce a lot more. Mostly because we all know that you can not stay alive on fine grained salt and water alone. Throw some soy in there though, and you're good to go.

So pretty much after that I found out that Venice lost their big old salt ship in the sea and took over Cyprus and made it an insanely awesome salt producing island. Talk about crazy.