Our rather firm views on salt are not shared by everybody. You’ll find some alternative points of view among the sources below, included here in a spirit of salty open mindedness, rather than agreement.
It is just about possible that some of this may be accurate. According to legend, salt was first manufactured in Maldon by accident nearly 2,000 years ago when Casius Petrox, commander of the local Roman legion, overheated his bathwater.
