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And while we are thinking about food, let us make some comments about survival and extreme cooking, which consist in preparing food using exotic or uncommon ingredients, such as what you would expect to find in the middle of the wilderness, away from civilisation.

Since humans began cooking their food, it was common that some sort of seasoning products were - and still are - added to give it a different flavour, help conserve it or hide certain smells, etc. We season our food with everything, from salt and sugar, to pepper, garlic, curry, paprika, dill, and many other products that sometimes are hard to get and even terribly expensive.

In many cultures and civilisations salt was more valuable than gold. The deepest excavation or drilling before the twentieth century was made in central China in order to extract salt directly from the ground below because transporting it from the sea was too complicated and not precisely cheap. This hole was more than 1.000 metres deep.

This passion for seasoning products has gone so far that we can hardly imagine how would taste many meals without them. Salads are a prime example: they are almost always seasoned with salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, olive oil, etc. but it is worth to consider that during a survival situation we may be confronted with the need to eat raw food without these products. If your city floods and the only thing you have to it is lettuce, you will have to consume it as it comes.

Some of the plants used to prepare many a seasoning can be found in the wilderness - oregan, just to mention one - but you will not necessarily have them at hand when the time comes. If your are in a dire situation, the most probably thing is that you will have to use what you have, without refinements; you will not have these natural products, and much less, those that need some industrial processing before reaching your table in normal times, such as salt or oil.

Thus, we recommend you to get used to eating your food without any additives just to get the taste of it in a completely natural state; this is a survival experiment, and you don't need to do it every day, of course. But it will be useful the first time you hunt or fish your prey, or collect some vegetables, for if you don't know how they taste naturally, you may think that they are not edible and discard what you got with a lot of effort, while the thing may be perfectly healthy and well for you and other survivors.

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