Salt and Bread

It is said that war and peace comes from the word of salt and bread in ancient arabic and hebrew.

This points out that salt could be the first thing people fight over and if people shared bread it is a sign of peace.

Quote from history of salt.

Not only did salt serve to flavor and preserve food, it made a good antiseptic, which is why the Roman word for these salubrious crystals (sal) is a first cousin to Salus, the goddess of health. Of all the roads that led to Rome, one of the busiest was the Via Salaria, the salt route, over which Roman soldiers marched and merchants drove oxcarts full of the precious crystals up the Tiber from the salt pans at Ostia. A soldier's pay—consisting in part of salt—came to be known as solarium argentum, from which we derive the word salary. A soldier's salary was cut if he "was not worth his salt," a phrase that came into being because the Greeks and Romans often bought slaves with salt.

Perhaps i will be more grateful for the salt i come across knowing how precious it was in ancient time.