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Pros & Cons
Pros
An interesting history of an important mineral resource. History is actually a long-running serial drama with an infinite number of subplots.
This book meanders through the ages and countries of the world with fascinating factoids and thumbnail sketches. It is structured chronologically, and so starts from ancient egypt and china and comes to the modern day. It has great information in ever... Read More
Cons
The author's staccato style is very irritating and should have been evened out, as much as possible, by half-decent copyediting. Not a single cohesive narrative. A few of the facts are interesting in and of themselves, but the overwhelming majority ar... Read More
There are thousands of salts but only one that's called just plain salt.
A book with unfulfilled potential. The author jumps from one century forward to another, then back again, then jumps forward two more centuries. Because it is not in chronological order, beware.
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I am happy with this seller funand the product
It is really informative fun and tied well with the history lessons they had in school
Thankfully this book doesnt linger with the scent of academia
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- This product had a total of 3,737 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 27 2023.
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Especially products with additional chemical salts that people came to prefer
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I was not aware of all the bad british laws about disallowing indian citizens from scraping salt
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This book genre is commodity history also called “microhistory”throughout the book i though about the high solubility of salt in water and how it can dissolve in humid air and clump in a salt shaker
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Manufacturers add anticaking agents to table salt as well as an iodine salt
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I believe the author sometimes stretches the truth so i find myself taking his word with a grain of salt
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I got bogged down visiting individual european countries and hearing about how they salted fish
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It seems to go on for too many pages
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Recently the only time i read is floating in the pool rough life
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