The Museum of Design Atlanta shakes out the history of salt in its new exhibition "Salt: A Design Story," covering 17th century salt flats to today's craft salt revival.

Pick up a salt shaker and really look at it. It seems pretty boring now, a table staple that gets sprinkled on fries or lost in the back of a kitchen cabinet. For most of human history, though, salt ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Villagers harvest salt from five-century-old family ponds using an ancient Quechua principle of collective labor ...

An ounce of salt could once be traded for an ounce of gold. Now, the idea is laughable, with the cost of gold reaching over $2,000 per ounce while 26 ounces of salt is valued at just $1. How did gold ...

Salt shakers were invented in 1858 by John Mason, the guy who invented the screw-top Mason jar. He made little screw-top jars to keep salt in at the table and keep it from caking from the humidity.