It’s reminding me to tell you about how difficult it was to find it, even at Fairway, “Like no other store in the world.”<\/p>\n
Indeed, as I wheeled my shopping cart onto the elevator in my building, a woman who’d entered first pointed and said excitedly, “You found salt!” Yes, I had but it was almost accidental. As I explained to her, I looked all over the store twice. After one circuit, I had to think about where salt might be found. Shouldn’t it be next to the sugar? But no; there was plenty of sugar but no salt.<\/p>\n
Then, as I was packed into the Fairway elevator going up, I spotted a tiny display of salt on the first floor, nestled next to the fresh fish. Nice try, Fairway. But no, salt should be next to the sugar.<\/p>\n
What is going on? The woman in the elevator and I agreed how hard it was to find some things and how weird the things we couldn’t find were. I mean, salt? Why should there be a shortage of salt? Is this a supply chain problem?<\/p>\n
Which of course gets me to ask: what is salt? I mean, where does it come from?<\/p>\n
The sea, of course, and salt mines.<\/a> Yet, the Phnom Penh Post says there’s no shortage, not in Cambodia anyway, which seems to harvest sea salt (I saw a photo in the Post illustrating how sea salt is being harvested).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, we’re back to having no tart cranberries on the Zabar’s shelves. And no sugar-free cookies, either. I’ll cope.<\/p>\n And now I’ll put the kosher salt box in the kitchen. Where it belongs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s reminding me to tell you about how difficult it was to find it, even at Fairway, “Like no other store in the world.” Indeed, as I wheeled my shopping cart onto the elevator in my building, a woman who’d … Continue reading