Finally, we are up to the Romans. Clearly, although all Emperor were an excellently salty bunch, Deocletian was the saltiest Emperor ever, and probablly deserves the title Salt King. Vote Deocletian!!!

I love finding out the origins of everyday words, so the ancient origin of the word salary was quite exciting. I think that getting paid in salt would have been sort of rough. If you got even a tiny hole in your pocket, or if it just rained really hard on your way to the bank, then you would find yourself very broke very quickly.

At first, I thought that salting greens sounded fairly ridiculous, but then I started looking at today's salad dressings. Most of them contain salt. Plus, sometimes I put parmisian cheese on my salad, and that's a fairly salty cheese. Really I think we just took the Roman's idea on that one and went crazy with it! And now, we even have Cesear dressing!

I liked reading about the purple dye. Last year for Mother's Day, I dyed a scarf for my mother and then used salt to make a pattern because the salt crystals would suck up some of the dye. For any of you who choose to try this at home: Do it outside. It is very messy. Trust me.