Kena- No passado, o sal era uma relíquia mundial. In the past, salt was a worldwide treasure.
- Era muito usado para conservar alimentos quando o congelamento dos mesmos não era possível, It was widely used to preserve food when freezing was not possible,
- mas também podia ser usado para fermentá-los. but could also be used to ferment food.
- Esta era uma prática comum na China, onde o molho de soja era feito através da fermentação com sal. This was a common practice in China where soy sauce was made through salt fermentation.
- Hoje em dia, o sal é um produto muito barato, já que pode ser obtido através da evaporação de água do mar. Today, salt is a very cheap product as it can be obtained by evaporating seawater.
- Em português, os locais de produção de sal onde isto é feito chamam-se salinas In Portuguese, the salt production sites where this is done are called salinas
- e nelas trabalham os marnotos, ou salineiros. and in them work the "marnotos", or "salineiros" (salt miners).
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Vocabulary
ApreciadoresConnoisseurs baratocheap, inexpensive chuvarain CongelamentoFreezing conservarto preserve, conserve LimpezaCleaning. Molho de sojaSoy sauce PrejudicialHarmful RelíquiaRelic o salsalt o solthe sun o ventowind
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Comments
There’s a bug that makes the transcript scroll to bottom after about 1 minute. However it lead for me to notice you can click on any sentence and it will go back to that point in the audio. Great feature!
Thank you for pointing that out and for your kind words 🙂
I liked the topic very much and was able to learn a lot about salt. I had a question about the pronunciation of Aveira (or one of the words with eira in it. It sounded to me more like “vera”.
As I was reading the transcript (in Portuguese), the text was scrolling nicely until about the middle when it suddenly zoomed to the end.
Ah, salt, our little frienemy 🙂 Thanks for reporting that scrolling issue.
Muito interessante. Não sabia que há salinas em Portugal. Se calhar vou visitar a salina no Aveiro
I really enjoyed this episode. Quite some time ago (in conjunction with the podcast on azulejos, which I listen to frequently), Rui noted that calçadas would be a good topic for a future episode. This would be great. Thank you so much!