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Article: Worth its salt.(WESTERN WANDERINGS; visit tp salt mine in Great Salt Lake, Utah)
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- February 1, 2006
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"Here's a good one," Kasey Bosshardt says, handing me a sharp-edged, 20-pound rock. In the headlights of Bosshardt's pickup--the only illumination in this dark, dark tunnel--the rock glitters, salmon pink, crystalline, alluring.
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We are 200 feet below the surface of Sevier County, Utah, inside one of the tunnels where Bosshardt mines salt (alongside other employees of Redmond Trading Company's RealSalt division). We are also at one of the centers of a revolution in American cuisine.
Not long ago, salt was salt. You had the blue cylindrical container picturing the little girl and her umbrella, the novelty salt shaker you ...