Bites Quote by Margaret Visser

Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. It has fascinated man…

— Margaret Visser

There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have…

— Aristotle

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

— Margaret Visser

Where would we be without salt?

— James Beard

Salt is a powerful symbol in Haiti, as elsewhere. Salt of the earth, for example is an American phrase. In Haiti, myth and legend…

— Edwidge Danticat

Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than…

— Mark Kurlansky

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

— John Piper

“Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or…

— Mark Kurlansky

Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And…

— Rachel Carson

There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered…

— Mark Kurlansky

In conventional oil and natural gas production, you always produce a lot of formation water, and it's crummy water. It's real salty. It's got…

— Rex Tillerson

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

— Herman Melville