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Earn your salt!

Earn your salt!

The basis of currency and essential to survival

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Jonathan McCloud
Nov 19, 2023
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Earn your salt!
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“There is no beginning to this history, but one to start is with salt.” ~ Catherine Venable Moore, “O Beulah Land”

Salt, or sodium chloride, is not merely a seasoning but a molecule of history, a crystal of chemistry, and a symphony of flavors.

Flavors: Salt is unique. It’s one of the basic tastes perceived by our taste buds, along with sweet, sour, bitte…

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