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STEVEN SALERNO: THE SCIENCE OF SALT

July 27, 2012

Steven Salerno created an illustration for the “Food Science” section of Fine Cooking magazine, on the subject of salt, one of the five basic tastes we are all hard wired to detect on our palate.

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The article describes a bit of historical background on salt, as well as explaining the matter of fact science behind how salt affects various foods, plus it provides a glossary of different types of salt.

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Steven illustrated the two main ways of extracting salt, the first from salt mines and the other from the seas...

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