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Salt was used to cure and preserve meat, and not just for flavoring
by wppick 7y ago
Salt was used to cure and preserve meat, and not just for flavoring
- thaumasiotes 7y agoSalt differs from other spices in a couple obvious ways: 1. It is a rock, not a biological product. 2. It is not used primarily for flavoring (though salt in specific has a strong flavor) -- it is a vital nutrient in its own right. With the exception of the flavoring, it has those things in common with iron, and iron and salt are the two commodities which were always widely traded, even in areas which engaged in almost no nonlocal trade.