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A blog for those interested in the heritage and culture of traditional salt making in the UK.
Friday, 13 February 2015
Nantwich Museum Comic about Salt History
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Monday, 9 February 2015
BBC Radio 4 two part programme - SALT 9 Feb and 16 Feb 2015
Part one of a two part series on BBC Radio 4. Broadcast 9 Feb 2015.
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Salt
It's easy to take salt for granted - its abundance on supermarket shelves, coupled with the development of refrigeration and freezing for our food, means we can all too readily overlook its vital and multiple role in our history. In part one of 'Salt', BBC Breakfast's Steph McGovern sets out to explain this role. She hears how it has taken root in our language, visits a chemistry class to find out about how it's produced and its importance to our physical well being, talks with history professor Peter Wallenstein about the unexpected importance of salt in military strategy right up until the 20th Century, and also Pierre Laszlo who explains how salt not only helped shape economies and cities like Salzburg, Munich and Venice, but also played a crucial role in revolutions across France, America and India. Steph also visits a graveyard and hears talk of the tradition of sin-eating at Welsh wakes, an illustration of salt's widespread place in religion and superstition across the world. Finally she talks with a commodities expert to discover just how much salt is worth today - significantly less than the days it was traded like for like with gold.
Available on line for 29 days.
Salt
It's easy to take salt for granted - its abundance on supermarket shelves, coupled with the development of refrigeration and freezing for our food, means we can all too readily overlook its vital and multiple role in our history. In part one of 'Salt', BBC Breakfast's Steph McGovern sets out to explain this role. She hears how it has taken root in our language, visits a chemistry class to find out about how it's produced and its importance to our physical well being, talks with history professor Peter Wallenstein about the unexpected importance of salt in military strategy right up until the 20th Century, and also Pierre Laszlo who explains how salt not only helped shape economies and cities like Salzburg, Munich and Venice, but also played a crucial role in revolutions across France, America and India. Steph also visits a graveyard and hears talk of the tradition of sin-eating at Welsh wakes, an illustration of salt's widespread place in religion and superstition across the world. Finally she talks with a commodities expert to discover just how much salt is worth today - significantly less than the days it was traded like for like with gold.
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Salt Sunday 17 May, 2015
The Salt of the Earth Network established in Cheshire by the Bishop of Birkenhead is organising its 5th Salt Sunday. His year it will be held on Sunday 17 May at Reasheath College, Nantwich as part of their Family Fund Day. More details to follow.
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Monday, 15 December 2014
Second Newsletter in Preparation
Just finishing off the second Saltcote newsletter.
Should be emailed out bend end of the week.
Any last submissions?
Should be emailed out bend end of the week.
Any last submissions?
Monday, 10 November 2014
Sunday, 5 October 2014
Bid to Europe - wellbeing, salt and tourism
Bid for an EU grant, to help with promoting the heritage of salt, failed when we couldn't even get the application completed - because not one of the nine organisations from five countries would commit themselves to act as the Lead Partner and take responsibility for managing the paperwork and financial form filling on behalf of the whole project.
It's a risk averse world. But it has meant that a possible 250,000 euros now isn't available to help promote the heritage of traditional salt making in Spain, Portugal, Germany, UK and Bulgaria. Thats about £56,000 lost to the UK salt projects to help tourism, the ECOSAL-UK Salt Network and SMEs in Cumbria, Cornwall and Wales.
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