In the News . . .

• What’s With All the Different Salts? Here’s How to Use Them -- The New York Times (02 January 2024)
  
  
• UK needs to tax salt in the same way it does sugar, says heart charity -- The Guardian (20 June 2022)
  
  
• Food myths busted: dairy, salt and steak may be good for you after all -- The Guardian (26 September 2021)
  
  
• National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report -- BBCNews (15 July 2021)
  
  
• It's not just salt, sugar, fat: Study finds ultra-processed foods drive weight gain -- MPR News (16 May 2019)
  
  
• 'Like another planet': Malham salt cave is world's longest, say researchers -- The Guardian (28 March 2019)
  
  
• Blech! Brain science explains why you're not thirsty for salt water -- MPR News (27 March 2019)
  
  
• Bigger, Saltier, Heavier: Fast Food Since 1986 in 3 Simple Charts -- The New York Times (03 March 2019)
  
  
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat -- hosted by the chef and food writer Samin Nosrat (2018)
  
  
• Is a low-salt diet as unhealthy as having too much? -- BBCfuture (29 October 2018)
  
  
• The Saltier the Licorice, the Happier the Country. Just Look at Finland -- The New York Times (24 October 2018)
  
  
• Vegetarian meat substitutes 'exceeding salt limits' -- BBCNews (23 October 2018)
  
  
• Sorry, but You Might Want to Stop Using Kosher Salt -- Tasting Table (07 March 2018)
  
  
• The Ideal Subjects for a Salt Study? Maybe Prisoners -- The New York Times (04 June 2018)
  
  
• Why are we addicted to salted caramel -- Daily Mail Online (26 November 2017)
  
  
• Should We Be Buying Iodized Salt? -- The New York Times (21 July 2017)
  
  
• Why Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong -- The New York Times (08 May 2017)
  
  
• F.D.A. Proposes Guidelines for Salt Added to Food -- The New York Times (01 June 2016)
  
  
• Chicken salt: the rise and fall (and rise again?) of Australia's favourite condiment -- The Guardian (04 April 2018)
  
  
• A Plan Worth Its Salt -- The New York Times (04 March 2016)
  
  
• Inside the UK's largest salt mine -- BBCNews (17 February 2016)
  
  
• Appetites: Getting a taste of the world of salt -- MPRNews (15 July 2013)
  
  
• 5 Unhealthy Foods Engineered to Be Addictive -- Martha Rosenberg, Hungry for Change (10 July 2014)
  
  
• Michael Moss, Salt Sugar Fat
  
  
  • Michael Moss on 'Salt Sugar Fat,' how we got so addicted -- MPRNews (1 March 2013)
    
    
  • Book pick: 'Salt Sugar Fat' by Michael Moss -- MPRNews (26 February 2013)
    
    
  • The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food -- MICHAEL MOSS, The New York Times (20 February 2013)
    
    
  • Moss, Michael. Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. Random House, 2013.

     

  • How Sweet It Is, [a review of] ‘Salt Sugar Fat', by Michael Moss -- DAVID KAMP, The New York Times (15 March 2013)
    
    
• Hungary Tries a Dash of Taxes to Promote Healthier Eating Habits -- The New York Times (02 March 2013)
  
  
• The Paradox And Mystery Of Our Taste For Salt -- NPR (20 December 2012)
  
  
• Salt-Tolerant Rice 'Could Aid Japan's Tsunami Farmers' -- BBC News (24 January 2012)
  
  
• Salt Men of Iran -- Past Horizons (07 June 2011)
  
  
• Oldest Salt Mine Known to Date Located in Azerbaijan -- ScienceDaily (27 November 2010)
  
  
• Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life -- LiveScience (09 November 2009)

• An Ode to Salt by Pablo Neruda -- Gastronomista
  
  
• Kessler, David. The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite. Rodale, 2009.
  [Such foods he argues, artfully layer fat on sugar on salt on fat (I've begun to see this as an acronymn--FOS/SOF or more musically "Frankenfoods") to release the brain chemical dopamine, leading to a kind of "conditioned hypereating." -- RH]
  
  
• McQuaid, John. Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat. NY: Scribner, 2015.
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. NY: Penguin, 2013.
  
  
• Salt -- Center for Science in the Public Interest
  
  
• Salt -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Salt -- Cook's Thesaurus
  
  
• "Salt" -- BBC News
  
  
• Salt and health -- U.K. Salt Association
  
  
• Salt: friend or foe? -- Hattie Ellis, BBC Food
  
  
• Salt Institute
  
  
• Salt production methods and practices -- International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders
  
  
• Secrets in the Salt -- NOVA Science Now
  
  
• Secrets of Salt -- TipKing
  
  
• Steingarten, Jeffrey. It Must've Been Somethin I Ate. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• U.K. Salt Association
  
  
• Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].

Penguin, 2003

"Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Codand The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Kurlansky's kaleidoscopic history is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece." -- Google Books

Fleur de Sel sea salt
from Guérande, France

Crystal lattice of the common salt (NaCl)