Salt has been used to season and preserve food for centuries, and this magical union of sodium and chorine plays a key role in many biological functions. Long gone, however, are the days of American ...

Besides all the incredible things it can do for food, salt is of great importance to human and animal health. So much so that we couldn’t survive without it. But what exactly is salt and how is it ...

Salt farmer Nyoman Warta hauls seawater onto the dark beach of Kusamba. He is one of the last representatives of this profession on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali. Here, the "white gold" is ...