Two groups on the coast are trying to unlock the secret of making pure, clean, edible salt from sea water. One is a modern, innovative company and the other is recreating history.

2. Let the water evaporate.If you use a wood stove for heat, you can humidify your house and manufacture salt in one fell swoop. Heat the water in an enameled cast-iron baking dish or casserole (9 ...

It’s easy to take artisanal salt-making with a grain of, well, salt — until you taste the briny goodness floating around the city. Salt is like a religion in my home. A full-on corner o… ...

The Dead Sea is an extraordinary natural laboratory, providing rare insights into the formation of large-scale salt formations known as salt giants. A recent study led by UC Santa Barbara’s Eckart ...

Egyptian art dating back to 1450 B.C. depicts the practice of salt making. The oldest method is evaporation, allowing the sun to dry pools of seawater, leaving salt crystals behind.

Paul Shibles, the owner of 1830 Sea Salt, uses solar evaporation in a greenhouse to extract the salt. 1830 Sea Sa lt Co., 108 Meetinghouse Road, Chatham In the early 1800s, over 800 saltworks ...

PHOTO / JIM NEUGER Chris Cary is a partner in Maine Salt Farm, a Cape Elizabeth-based producer of premium, solar-evaporated Maine sea salt since 2015. He is shown here holding a product sample at ...

Then the salt-craze hit the U.S., and stores like Portland, Ore.’s The Meadow cropped up, selling hundreds of salts from far-flung locales. Even my local Whole Foods now carries over 15 types of ...

The brine in the waiku begins to evaporate and salt crystals begin to form on the surface. Step 4: The salt maker gently pours this brine from the holding tanks into the drying beds.

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on the earth’s surface, with one of the world’s ...