Salt production can be traced back nearly 6,000 years to ancient times usage included seasoning, food preservation and even payment, which is where the word, salary, comes from. Nowadays, surprisingly only 6% of salt is used for culinary purposes, the rest is for industrial, agricultural or road gritting use.
Produced either from salt mines or by evaporation of sea or spring water, edible salt comes refined as table salt or as varied as the multitude of sea and rock salts…