Curemaster Sam Edwards III and Wholesale Manager Keith Roberts talks about how Edwards Virginia Smokehouse uses salt to preserve meat to create long aged hams. Learn more at www.edwardsvaham.com
Mark Kurlansky has a good book entitled Salt. It's an interesting dive into the importance of salt in the history of humans. Love your hams by the way.
Salt was so valuable in the past that people were paid in salt. A familiar term still used today has its very origins in this.... Salary! Yup....that's right. The salary was your pay in salt or a portion in salt. That's how valuable it really was.
What's wrong with being a prepper? What's wrong with living like humans used to live throughout history? Is it wrong not give in the modern day comforts that can go away any day now? I'm sorry to hear an old person who suppose to be wise to say such a weak statement.
