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  2. History of salt - Wikipedia

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    Salt comes from two main sources: sea water, and the sodium chloride mineral halite (also known as rock salt). Rock salt occurs in vast beds of sedimentary evaporite minerals that result from the drying up of enclosed lakes, playas, and seas. Salt beds may be up to 350 metres (1,150 ft) thick and underlie broad areas.

  3. Solutrean hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Examples of Clovis and other Paleoindian point forms, markers of archaeological cultures in North America. The Solutrean hypothesis on the peopling of the Americas is the claim that the earliest human migration to the Americas began from Europe during the Solutrean Period, with Europeans traveling along pack ice in the Atlantic Ocean.

  4. Salting (food) - Wikipedia

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    Sea salt being added to raw ham to make prosciutto. Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt. [1] It is related to pickling in general and more specifically to brining also known as fermenting (preparing food with brine, that is, salty water) and is one form of curing.

  5. Why Do Restaurants Put Rice in the Salt Shakers? - AOL

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  6. Why South Koreans are rushing to stockpile salt - AOL

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  7. Curing (food preservation) - Wikipedia

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    Barrels of salt beef and other products in a reconstruction of an American Civil War stockpile, at Fort Macon State Park, North Carolina. During the Age of Discovery, salt meat was one of the main foods for sailors on long voyages, for instance in the merchant marine or the navy. In the 18th century, salted Irish beef, transported in barrels ...

  8. Here's Why Southern Restaurants Sometimes Put Rice In Their ...

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    Whether you’ve made gumbo, risotto, or just plain rice, you’ll know that the grain can absorb a lot of liquid. Unlike salt, it won’t dissolve. Unlike salt, it won’t dissolve.

  9. Spilling salt - Wikipedia

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    In Jainism, an offering of raw rice with a pinch of salt signifies devotion and salt is sprinkled on a person's cremated remains before burial. [18] Salt is believed to ward off evil spirits in Mahayana Buddhist tradition, and after a funeral, salt is thrown over the left shoulder to prevent evil spirits from entering the house. [19]