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Interesting historical images about salt http://www.saltbook.com/gallery.php

A new book, just about salt is available. Click here to read the first chapter. http://www.saltbook.com/chapter.php

Click here for a page of "salty links": http://www.saltbook.com/links.php
http://teamwork.ucdavis.edu/~gel115/salt.html

http://smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues99/jan99/salt.html
http://www.whatscookingamerica.net/Glossary/S.htm

A song written for Ivan, the character from "Salt."
A poem about salt by one of the greatest poets of all time, Pablo Neruda.

"Ode to Salt"

Ode to Salt
 

  This salt
in the salt cellar
I once saw in the salt mines.
I know
you won't
believe me
but
it sings
salt sings, the skin
of the salt mines
sings
with a mouth smothered
by the earth.
I shivered in those
solitudes
when I heard
the voice
of
the salt
in the desert.
Near Antofagasta
the nitrous
pampa
resounds:
a
broken
voice,
a mournful
song.

In its caves
the salt moans, mountain
of buried light,
translucent cathedral,
crystal of the sea, oblivion
of the waves.
And then on every table
in the world,
salt,
we see your piquant
powder
sprinkling
vital light
upon
our food.
Preserver
of the ancient
holds of ships,
discoverer
on
the high seas,
earliest
sailor
of the unknown, shifting
byways of the foam.
Dust of the sea, in you
the tongue receives a kiss
from ocean night:
taste imparts to every seasoned
dish your ocean essence;
the smallest,
miniature
wave from the saltcellar
reveals to us
more than domestic whiteness;
in it, we taste finitude.