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In the United States, only 8 percent of salt production is for food. The largest single use of American salt, 51 percent, is for deicing roads.
in the 1970s, when it started to become difficult to find people in southern Louisiana willing to pick peppers, the solution was to reverse history and take seeds from Avery Island back to Mexico and Central America every year.
AFTER THOUSANDS OF years of struggle to make salt white and of even grain, affluent people will now pay more for salts that are odd shapes and colors.
Gray salts, black salts, salts with any visible impurities are sought out and marketed for their colors, even though the tint usually means the presence of dirt.
modern people have seen too many chemicals and are ready to go back to eating dirt.
