[Sca-cooks] sea salt vs. white-salt

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:28:28 -0700 Edouard de Bruyerecourt <bruyere at mind.net>
wrote:

> Mined salt would be cheaper, depending on how
> far overland it had to be carted. The mined
> salt is more from central and east Europe that I know of.
>
> --
> Edouard, Sire de Bruyerecourt
> bruyere at mind.net

There is a salt mine near Krakow, Poland, that has been worked continuously
since the middle ages.  Parts of it are now a tourist site.  Beginning in the
17th century, the miners began carving chapels and other decorated rooms out
of the salt.  See:
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/ice/lec14/wielicz.htm
http://www.salt-mine.com/english/index.html

Brighid ni Chiarain