Just after I asked you guy how to get rid of that high salt capacity inRamena few weeks ago , here I am pouring it on ( poke at nudge ) this week . This Charles William Post contains 27 % of your day-after-day time value for saltiness , one of the most important chemical compound and foodstuffs known to man .
" ¢ Of of course , salt has many other enjoyment besides enhancing spirit and keep up food . As most of you know , it was also used to preserve homo . One of the most interesting course - occurring case is that of the"Iranian Salt Men,“whose remain from 1800 geezerhood ago have been preserved naturally in salt mines . Even their hair outride intact !
" ¢ You may pour salt on everything you eat , but you certainly do n’t pour … bleach ? Still , Clorox bleach starts and ends as salt and water . Clorox was in fact founded on converting brine from a Strategic Arms Limitation Talks pond into whitener . This allsounds too goodand non - toxic to be truthful … any druggist want to consider in with their two cents ?
" ¢ One major non - food tie in use of salt is for de - icing roads . Not something we much think about here in Hotlanta , but " in the United States , only 8 pct of salt production is for food . The largest single use for American salinity , 51 percentage , is for de - icing roads . " Salt was first used in this capacity in the thirties .
" ¢ Speaking of the 1930s—1930 itself to be precise — it was the year Gandhi and 78 other men walked 240 stat mi from the Sabarmati Ashram to the Sea of Dandi , in an act of polite disobedience against the British Salt Tax ( which forbid the yield or marketing of salinity by anyone but the British government , and also heavily tax salt in world-wide ) . After arriving at the Dandi coastline , Gandhi illegally collected salt and encouraged others to do so , for which he was arrested — a seminal moment in the drive for Amerindic independence .
" ¢ If you ’re like me and the early Romans ( the tidings " remuneration " originates from the word for money grant to Roman soldiers for the leverage of table salt ; hence , their salary ) , and you ca n’t get enough of salt in general , try visit theSalt Museumin Hutchinson , Kansas . Has anyone ever been ?
" ¢ Other halt on your Salty Tour of the US might include the mystic admiration of theGalos Caves in Chicago , and of course of instruction theGreat Salt Lakein Utah . At the end of your salty journeying , find loosening at aSalt Spafor a mere $ 15 .
" ¢ Takethis sitewith a grain of salt , you salty dogs , but it has theory on the origins of some common salt - related phrases that might make it deserving its salt . Ok , I ’m just rubbing salt in the injury now . Seriously , I ’m stopping .
" ˜Dietribes ' appear every Wednesday . Food photos taken byJohanna Beyenbach . You might remember that name from our Wiley Post about hercolorful dieting .
