A Little Salty

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There’s an old wooden case filled with salt spoons hanging on the wall of our dining room. 

A salt spoon is a tiny spoon that people used to scoop salt from a tiny dish called a salt cellar. Those were the days before salt shakers were a thing.

When I was about eight years old, my grandmother decided that I should begin collecting salt spoons. 

“Who knows?” she would say, “Maybe when you’re grown up, you’ll have enough of them to have a party where each of your friends c...