I can’t believe I voluntarily read a history book about salt. It was definitely interesting, but also, as a lot of history is for me, a bit boring. We learn about the history of, you guessed it, salt. From back when it was used as currency up through today we learn about how salt has quite literally shaped civilization. I like how he breaks it up by geographic areas and explores the influence throughout the world as opposed to being western centric. I already knew about a lot of the uses of salt from preservation of food to embalming, and those who are more spiritual might have already known the mythical beliefs but those were interesting to hear about. Despite salt being used to season things this book was definitely bland, but at the end of the day it *is* a history book. There is some redundancy about salt use in different countries so there are a lot of natural put down spots where you can close a chapter and come back to it. There were also a lot of old school recipes, I personally would not follow them because I am lazy, but it was something unique and I found the commentary fascinating.