Throughout history people have developed clever ways to store and serve salt. Our own Dryden potter, Mark Roberson, is crafting his own version of the traditional Scottish “salt pig”—a form based on a “hooded” earthenware container that would help absorb moisture from the air and keep salt from clumping. From individual “dips” to cellars and shakers, crocks and “pigs”, the storing and serving of salt was important, but why? These days it’s easy to take salt for granted, but a