Well, I'm about to start a new story.
Let's talk about: ‘TASTE of SALT’.
Sodium chloride.
Without me, what kind of ‘bland’ (foolish) life would it be?
In fact, the stomach of every human being produces hydrochloric acid, and I bring it the chlorine. From that moment, we can say life begins to be digested.
But let's start from a fact that makes me Italic, or rather Roman. Even today when you get paid for your work, we say we have collected the ‘Salary’. So I am born as the ‘SAL’ ‘ARIUM’ and how can you not think that deep down I am practically the first Latin lover.
Rome receives food from its military conquests and to preserve it, there is me.
It is said that first of all to the legionaries I was given as a reward along with the provisions: white gold.
Then I was used as a countervalue before money arrived.
My charisma leads everyone to also believe in my sacred nature.I am still here, indeed! My value has not worn out over time, on the contrary, rivers of ink tell my stories and nothing and no one can be compared to my knowledge. A pumpkin without Salt, to say that person is stupid, we hear it very often.
It is rarer to remember how the Supreme Poet talks about me in Paradise, where Cacciaguida predicts to Dante, exiled from Florence: ‘You will indeed taste how salt is / another’s bread, and how hard a path / it is to descend and to climb another’s stairs’.
Some read in it an echo of the rivalry between Florentines and Pisans. According to tradition, powerful Pisa denied me to Florence and forced it to make the insipid bread which is still eaten around there today.
As if to say I make news when I am there but also when I am missing.
How many times in life do we hear: lacks salt, to say of something well done, but soulless. And in the language that governs today's business, whoever is not worth his salt It is not worth the pay it receives. Conversely, too much salt explains that the dish has exceeded the limit, it lacks balance.
If it is too salty, you understand that that thing costs too much compared to its value. In short, a pinch of me changes your life, without exaggeration.
I have made simplicity my wisdom and fill both the sea and a tear, even a tear of joy.
Giorgio Monaco
Giorgio Monaco
Experienced manager, strategic consultant, and great enthusiast of Italian food.
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