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Roasted ramp salt with flaky sea salt

Ramp season here in the Hudson Valley is an eagerly awaited event occurring for a few short weeks. This year I plucked a few ...
SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — In a makeshift studio tucked in the forest near a strip of sandy shoreline, Trevor Whelon fires up his kiln and begins a day of glassblowing while his son and his friends ...
In the 18th century, Nathan Boone and his brother, Daniel Morgan Boone, learned how to make salt by boiling water from a certain salt spring in Kentucky. According to Johnson’s “Cyclopaedia of Useful ...
SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — Wearing a pair of railroad-style overalls, her hair pulled back in a red bandanna, potter Francine Hampson-Reid popped out of her studio to greet visitors. “You found us!” ...