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The Secrets of Salt: History, Science, and Cooking with Naomi Duguid

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

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The History of Salt Harvesting

The author went to a lot of interesting places to see salt harvesting. "I'm interested in encounter and in feeling connected to where I am," he says. In Cambodia, Nampen, you find a bicycle to rent to pedal out to the salt fields. The Japanese taxed salt from the early 1900s to pay for the war against Russia.

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