Ch. 6 Salt IT IS DONE!

I find it so cool that things so long ago still remain in today's world. One of those marvalous things would be that road that the Romans made that is a superhighway. That was ages ago yet is survived. It must be really important for it to become a major highway. I want to go visit and see it. Something even cooler would to drive on it. I think that someday I'm gonna have to make a trip to drive from Piacenze to the Adriatic coast. I could then go to the beach there. It would be a wonderful vacation!

There was a HUGE section about cheese in this book. I thought that the French invented cheese. If you were or are in French class you would know how many cheeses there are. Ew. The cheese lesson we had last year. I thought that I would barf if I saw anymore moldy cheese. It is terrible to make it age so much! This cheese would have so much mold on it that it looked like a fuzzy sweater! As I was reading I was very confused because of the French being so involved with cheese. I wonder why the Romans are not as familarly known with their cheeses. I don't know. I really don't like cheese anyhow. After last year I definitely lost my appetite for cheese.

Another place I would love to see is the mountain that has the different colored salts. I imagine it looking like the painted forest. Anyone go there? It is such a pretty place! I thought that it would look ugly because it is in the desert. I begged my family for us not to go there and to spend more time with my family out in Colorado or at Yellowstone later on, but I obviously didn't convince them. It really was cool to go see though. I think that this mountain would actually be more of a mix between the painted forest and the grand canon. If you haven't been to either one, go to them. They are just amazing. That is why I want to go see the mountain with pretty salts coloring it.

Overall, this book I guess wasn't too bad. It was interesting; I'll give it that. Thinking of salt now will just give me crazy ideas to go visit places and having salt tasting parties. I wonder how salt will affect the future. Will it still be necessary? I think this book should have an addition to it.

Ch. 5 Salt... ALMOST DONE!!!

Marco! Polo! Marco Polo was a cool guy. I mean, he had a game named after him. I really don't understand why he is used in Marco Polo and not someone like me, but I guess that is just life. I don't know why everyone was so harsh on him that he didn't go to China. Who cares if he did or not? Also, the only evidence they have that he didn't was that he didn't write too much about it in his book. He probably had cooler things to write in there besides China anyhow.

Venice was a smart place. Finally a nation decides to take advantage of land that has some good old salt on it to make some money. I don't think that countries should be able to monopolize like that. It is kind of like what China is doing now. It is a smart thing to do, but it really isn't fair to other countries. Maybe the United Kingdom should look into that some.

The invention of making salt ponds was pretty cool I guess. I think it is very childish that the Chinese wouldn't accept the fact that they invented it first. Who cares if they are known for their perfect little crystals of salt. At least they invented something! It was something that changed history too. Oh well, the Chinese invented everything so it is good for someone to get credit for something they did.