Anita Agnihotri’s A Touch of Salt, translated by Arunava Sinha from Bengali, is an outstanding portrait of the salt ... apart from banning the making of salt in the late 1880s.

We visited Kusamba village in Bali to see how a community of coastal farmers is preserving its ancient salt-making methods. More from Still Standing Balinese palung salt is made by harvesting ...

Asin tibuok, nicknamed the dinosaur egg, is one of the rarest salts in the world. In the 1960s, salt-making families in the Philippine island of Bohol would trade it for food and other goods.

In the humble “okagesama” thank-you spirit of the Japanese, at Shiogama, a sacred ritual to thank Shiotsuchi-no-Oji-no-Kami for bestowing salt-making know-how is held every year. Okama Shrine ...