Common on just about any restaurant table or grocery store shelf. Probably even in your own kitchen cabinet. And yet, such simple grains of salt have a long history, from ancient times to today. Here ...

HANAPEPE, Hawaii (AP) — The process of making salt from sea water is a lengthy and laborious one that requires patience, perseverance and stoicism. Work that salt makers do for hours or even days ...

Harvesting salt from the sea is a practice that goes back millennia in Hawaii. The Polynesian voyagers likely found crystallized salt collecting in the rocks along the shoreline when they arrived in ...