'Perhaps no culture has mastered the use of salt quite like the Japanese'
Ibex will climb vertiginous dams just to lick salty rocks. The first European town is thought by some to have been Solnisata in present-day Bulgaria, which formed around a salt mine. In Norse mythology, a divine cow called Audhumla gave form to gods by licking salt. Salting fresh food allowed humans to survive harsh winters before electric refrigeration.
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