at
Walvis Bay.
Halophile organisms giving a red colour. Sea salt is mentioned in the
Vinaya Pitaka, a Buddhist scripture compiled in the mid-5th century BC. The principle of production is evaporation of the water from the sea
brine. In warm and dry climates this may be accomplished entirely by using solar energy, but in other climates fuel sources have been used. Modern sea salt production is almost entirely found in
Mediterranean and other warm, dry climates. " sea salt, Île de Ré Such places are today called salt works, instead of the older English word
saltern. An ancient or medieval saltern was established where there was: • Access to a market for the salt There, the
tide brought the brine, the extensive saltings provided the pasture, the
fens and
moors provided the
peat fuel, and the sun sometimes shone. , Jordan The dilute brine of the sea was largely evaporated by the sun. In Roman areas, this was done using
ceramic containers known as
briquetage. In the
colonial New World, Africans were enslaved and brought to rake salt on various islands in the
West Indies,
Bahamas and particularly
Turks and Caicos Islands. Today, salt labelled "sea salt" in the US might not have actually come from the sea, as long as it meets the FDA's purity requirements. All mined salts were originally sea salts since they originated from a marine source at some point in the distant past, usually from an evaporating shallow sea. ==Taste==