Ok, well I definitely am amazed by the Romans and how salt pertains to so many different cultures. It still is absolutely insane to me. Salt is so weird. How in the world can it be so important?
I was very excited that in this chapter, it wasn't JUST about fish or sauces or mining the salt. This time, there were more recipes. I'm very afraid to try some of this food because I think that I might die. These recipes are from so many years ago, who knows what they are talking about? Also, I wonder where the book got all of them. They are so old. I didn't think that many of them would still be around.
I think that the garum stuff is so nasty! I really do not want to have a party to try out that! I think that I would barf. That is nasty sounding food. Ew. Yuck. It does not sound like a fun time to eat. I think it is so gross that they would stick it on so many things too.
At least this time there were other things such as the dyes and table salt. I think it was really cool how they dyed clothing. I'm happy that table salt was used to put on vegetables. Although, I don't know where they went wrong with the whole putting salt in wine. I think that wine would taste gross anyhow, let alone with salt thrown into it.
The Romans definitely owned at trading salt. They were so powerful. Salt sounds like the business to go into. I'm really starting to get sick of this salty taste from this book that I would really like to go to something sweet like sugar. I want to learn about sugar now.
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I am definitely not a fan of those recipes either. Erlack. I would make a very fail Roman. At least we didn't hear anything about soy sauce! Or fish! Or crazy naked people!
The fish sauce definitely had to be nasty. How did they come up with it and why? I was happy to hear about dying things purple. It is interesting how they produced the color.
"Stupid blog?" What a nice attitude.
Before the age of freezers, the only way to keep food was salt, which is why it was so important. It would be hard to last the winter, if you could not salt food. Mr. K continues to bring this up on various levels through out the book.
Garum sounds and probably smells bad. It was very popular back in the day. They would often put it on bread and stuff. Fermented fish wouldn't go over well today.
Good observations on this entry. You bring up some interesting "food" points that I agree with here.
You are a bit vague with the Romans. Your line: "The Romans definitely owned at trading salt. They were so powerful." but you don't really go into many deatails about the chapter on this subject. ex. Rome used salt as money, Soldiers, salary, word origins, etc. Instead you go off topic about sugar, which is nice, but stay focused on the book's content.
Mr. Farrell
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