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🗓️ 25 November 2025
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Have you ever thrown a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder? Or said to someone “well, take his opinion with a grain of salt”? Or looked up the potential salary of a job listing? Salt is so deeply embedded in our cultures, our languages, our history as a species that we often take its influence for granted. We may forget (or perhaps we never knew) how much history is held within the unassuming yet ubiquitous salt shaker. In the first installment of this two-parter on everyone’s favorite seasoning, we delve deep into some salt lore. When did humans start to ramp up their salt intake? Why was salt such a big deal? Which places are named for salt? When did we start worrying about how much sodium we were eating? Tune in for a fun, fact-filled episode that’ll forever change the way you think about salt.
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| 0:45.6 | The so-called Lickwomen is made in this manner. The intestines of fish are thrown into a vessel and salted. |
| 1:11.6 | Small fish, either the best smelt or small mullet or spratz or wolffish or whatever is deemed to be small, are all salted together and shaken frequently and are fermented in the sun. After it has been reduced in the heat, garum is obtained from it in this way. A large, strong basket is placed into the vessel of the aforementioned fish, and the |
| 1:17.6 | garum streams into the basket. |
| 1:19.6 | In this way, the so-called liqueamon is strained through the basket when it is shaken up. |
| 1:24.6 | The remaining refuse is Alec. |
| 1:26.6 | Next, if you wish to use the garum immediately, |
| 1:30.1 | that is to say, not fermented in the sun, but to boil it, you do it this way. When the brine has been |
| 1:35.7 | tested, so that an egg having been thrown in floats, if it sinks, it is not sufficiently salty, |
| 1:42.5 | and throwing the fish into the brine in a newly made earthenware pot and adding in some |
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