I find it funny that the Celt miners had mustaches for the soul purposes of catching food. What is now an inconvenience was then a useful utility.
The fact that Celts are named by historians for their tendency to run and hide is slightly depressing, but it makes me wonder to what extent they have earned this name. I guess this means they didn't call themselves this when the culture existed.
One amazing thing about salt is its frequency. Kurlansky says:
"Like the ancient Chinese emperors, they [the Celts] based their economy on salt and iron and so needed waterways to transport their heavy goods."This makes me think about how common salt is. More and more empires, we are learning, relied on salt. This wouldn't have happened if it was scarce. So far in the reading, we have salt in East Asia, North Africa, and Western Europe. I should start a map.
Just as distasteful jokes have a period of time that occurs before they can be told, digging graves must become "not too bad" after a while. How long is this period of time? When does it become "okay" to find dead bodies and continue digging like Ramsauer, who even hires an artist to paint his findings! It's just something I found unusual. It reminds me of people who try to build on Native American burial grounds. When this happens, however, it isn't moral.
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to answer your question
oh yes green and black olives have much difference sir.
Green olives suck.
Black olives rule.
That is all.
we have to read the salad chapter too?!
flendee, sir.
I love the celts. I appreciated their mustaches too. I had forgotten about that...lol. I've never eaten a green olive either and I dont really care for black ones. Although, I ate and insane amount today without realizing it. Ew.
Not that I was a big fan of olives before, but that makes me want to puke. Gross. And I also think that the Celts had nasty nasty beards. I would make them clean it.
I'm loving the celts more and more. you have fancy quote formatting.
baloooo.
or whatever it was that made you deserving of an almost concussion.
i'm commenting like an idiot because i'm "babysitting" and it's been a while.
Good point about not having to remember every single detail. The idea was to simply have you read the first few chapters and gain perspective as to how ancient socieity's may have opperated driven by food and commerce. So often we learn in history of wars or battles, but to tell history via food stuff is pretty daring I think.
Again, Amy Tan, sorry you are suffering post traumatic stress, but it is off topic here, as is the whole fire fox gig. I'm glad you discovered it, but you are just taking up space on your entry. (Off topic)
The Celts are an interesting people, who predated the Romans somewhat. According to the book, they loved to eat their pork! Funny run & hide thing though.
The book does jump around, but that is the whole point. It is a salt overview. Since it focused on the ancient civs, and we are done learninga about them, it seemed like a good time to introduce Mr. K's ideas to you.
As for Chapter 4, if you've ever eaten a hot dog, you have eaten the same stuff, so try not to pass judgement on the Romans too much. It is hard for us in the modern day to get past the types of stuff that they thought was tasty, but I'm sure in the future the same will be said about us.
I never was a fan of olives, (balck or green) so I can't say.
Mr. Farrell
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