This chapter made me so hungry with the talk about ham, salami, and cheese. I love cheese and it is something I eat almost every chance I get. Also the chapter was a very good ending to what we have to read for the class, the only down side was that it was a tad boring.
I have to throw something out there. What was wrong with people, they tied slaves by their necks and made them walk just for salt. That is some serious torture it you ask me, what was going through their heads.
I had no idea that ham was a long and tideous process and there was weird ways of testing ham. Like sticking the knife it the center and smelling it and also the whole thing about the wind affecting the ham completely amazed me. I had no idea about the whole ham thing.
Also I did not know that salt was the main factor on the aging of cheese. The the whole thing about moldy cheese completely makes me want to throw up. How can people eat that. I learned there was a large variety of cheeses as well.
Towards the end of the chapter the Mediterranean no longer was the center of the world in means of salt. It was Spain’s turn to bask in the glory. Spain had their golden age and was then the focus. Like we keep being told in class every empire or what you choose to call them has their golden age where they have all the power and look unstopable. Where does the United States fit on that spectrum?
Overall the book was pretty interesting and I am still impressed how the whole thing related to salt. It was really neat how salt impacted the empires back then considering what it means to us now.
5 comments:
I like cheese too, but I became not hungry whenever I read about the nasty stuff in salami. What a shame.
I agree. The part about this book I love is it's ease of termination, if you will. Our ending in chapter 6 really isn't a problem at all because there's no story.
At all.
And yeah, it does seem like a bit much to tie chains around slaves' necks for salt.
Learning about how they made foods was somewhat interring. The salami sounded discussing though, like ancient hot dogs. I had no idea that making cheese required salt either.
I also love cheese. Too bad you get bored by it. I found Parma, who made Parmesan cheese pretty cool. (via salt) In fact prior to reading this chapter, I never knew that salt was a main ingredient to make Cheese.
As for the slaves, times were different back then, and I don't think they really cared too much about people's "human rights".
Glad you at least got something from the book. Nice job with the blog in any case.
Mr. Farrell
nice bloggin' tool!
way to pwn some souls!
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