Imagine biting into a juicy steak, fresh off the grill, only to find it completely bland and unseasoned. Now imagine biting into that same steak with a sprinkling of slightly crunchy, briny flavor ...

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 ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely resembled modern Death Valley, where heat drives evaporation and leaves salt ...

Made by seething—a process where groundwater is heated in a large iron pan over a fire until the salt crystallizes—Læsø Sea Salt’s production is entirely unique. The islanders have been making salt ...

Working from home may feel like a practice inextricably linked with the COVID-19 pandemic. But as it turns out, some ancient Maya salt makers were living and working in the same place, too. That’s the ...