I tend to love books that focus on one thing, person, culture, idea, food, mineral, etc. and how it basically changed everything and made us what we are today. Without any one of these very important things, we would still be sad blobs of formless jelly, unable to even conceieve of writing reviews in Goodreads. So maybe I'm starting to weary of reading such books. After reading this, I thought maybe so, but that doesn't explain my excitement upon discovering that there is a whole giant list of such books put together in Goodreads. I tingled. So maybe I'm not ready to give up on this genre just yet.

This was pretty enjoyable, but I kind of got bogged down. I liked that this ran the gamut, from ancient to modern uses of salt, and how salt shaped so much of culture -- especially in the culinary realm. As I was finishing this book up, I spent an evening eating way too many salty chips and got a killer headache. Just sharing.