Well I am glad that the book went from the Chinese, who did a lot of stuff but a little bit boring, to the Egyptians. The Egyptians were some people I tell you, pretty smart and interesting if you ask me.
After reading about the Egyptians I understood actually why salt was important to them and what they used it for. The Chinese I got the picture, but I did not fully understand them. The Egyptians absolutely needed salt for the mummification process of preserving the body. They also used it their breads and meat.
Speaking of meat, I had no idea how many different types of meats that they ate. I mean we eat the occasional chicken, ham, turkey and a few others, but not that many. I think it would be cool to eat like the Egyptians. The Egyptions are my idols for eating so much different types of meat. I mean I would like a more variety of meats then what we have now, I think it would be different but yet cool.
Also like they have different kinds of meat they also had different kinds of salt which in turn were different colors. How sweet is that. I think it would be really cool to just like put red slt onto your fries instead of plain old white. The only question i have is how much different of a taste do they have?
Also I thought it was neat how the Egyptians made salt by evaporating seawater of the Nile. They also got salt from trade, and it seems to me that salt was as important to them as their families and money combined. It was like they were absolutely obsessed over it. They also had sald lakes and salt deposits to collect salt along with African trade. They got there colored salt from a lake near Memphis.
The last thing that I thought was interesting from the chapter was the ancient Phoenician coins with imaes of tuna on them. We put presidents on our coins and guess what they choose, tuna. Haha. I would love to see one of those coins, it would be pretty neat.
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One reason I waited to assign the book into October was so that you folks would have something of a base or background in their culture. Once we got to the Romans, I figured you would be ok when it came to figuring some of the stuff out.
Salt was important, because before people had freezers, salt was the only way to store meat. I think that point is lost on some of your
classmates. Without the ability to salt, there was no way to preserve food to travel long distances, or keep (pickle)food.
One thing Mr. K shows us is how many different types of salt there are, and as you point out, do they all taste the same?
Again, great observations, comments and reflections.
Mr. Farrell
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