Early Quote by Mark Kurlansky
“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 that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.”
![“There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax…” quote by Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b11/aristotle-78_dues_there-is-more-evidence-to-prove-that-sal_2948499.jpg)
