~ Salts Most of us use it every day without even thinking twice about it. We're talking about salt. Chemically, salt is NaCL. But walk into a spice store and you'll see there's a lot of variety in NaCL: Online retailer and New York's famous spice store Kalustyan's, for instance, has more than 80 varieties of sea salt alone. What makes them all different? A lot of things. First, just like terroir makes a difference in how wine tastes, place and source explain why salts have different flavors and colors — and uses. So, just like all wine is fruity (it comes from grapes, after all), all salt is salty, but there's more to the way we perceive what we eat than that. __SALTS OF THE WORLD__ Salt comes from all over the world and is either mined or evaporated from seas, oceans, and salt lakes. Table salt — perhaps the most common variety — is also the most processed. It's mined, and either brought up as rocks (rock salt) or dissolved underground and