Salt Cellar is under construction in the basement space on the corner of Middle and Market Streets. Salt Cellar was founded in Portsmouth NH and this will be there second location. You can see there full product line of finishing salts on their e-commerce site.
The windows of the new retail store are filled with a set of quotes about salt:
- It’s a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt before he knows him. -Cervantes
- Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece than the Courtiers of Italy. -Ben Franklin
- Salt is what makes things taste bad when it isn’t in them. -Anonymous
- Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt. -George Herbert
- Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker. -Margaret Visser
- Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea. -Pythagoras
- It takes four men to make a salad: a madman for the pepper, a miser for the vinegar, a spendthrift for the oil, and a wiseman for the salt. -Unknown
yes! i saw this saturday morning (walking down to standard for a morning bun) and thought, huh a salt store?? i hope!