An curved arrow pointing right. It takes a full day working in temperatures up to 1,000 degrees Celsius to make one batch of Himalayan black salt, or kala namak. The salt was once used as a ...

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.

Those changes need to be more substantial than changing 1/2 teaspoon salt to 1/4 teaspoon, although the changes don't have to just be in the ingredients. You also could make changes in the technique.

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 ...