Salt is the most widely used additive for just about every cook.
It is to be found in most dishes and for us all is important for
our survival.
Every day we lose between 2 and 20 grammes
of salt. Salt like pepper has been used for a very long time and
like pepper used to be a very expensive commodity.Since cooking
salt tends it to spread quickly throughout a dish, it is advisable
to add it just before food is served.
It is not just used in flavouring food, but
also in preserving various foods, from ham to gherkins to fish.
Salt has the property of removing moisture from meat or fish thus,
giving them a much longer shelf life.
Salt is harvested from various methods, from
condensing sea water to exploiting sea lakes or from salt stone
from salt hills. The word salt, in latin salis and the word money,
in latin salarium are very closely related, this alone shows us
just how important salt is in our daily diet.
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