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Salt sits on every table and dissolves in every ocean, and most people go a lifetime without wondering why.

It turns out there's a lot to wonder about. Salt is built from two of the most reactive elements on the periodic table, yet settles into a compound stable enough to outlast empires. It has funded governments, provoked a revolution, and given English the word "salary" — though not, as legend has it, in quite the way you've heard. It comes in a dozen different forms with a dozen different origin stories, kept meat edible for centuries before refrigeration existed, and shows up in scripture as both sacrament and warning. It even built its own vocabulary — you're probably "worth your salt" more often than you realize.

And it's essential. The human body cannot make sodium and cannot survive without it — which makes the modern question of how much salt is too much one of the more genuinely contested debates in nutrition science today.

Salt follows the same premise as the rest of the I'm No Expert, But series: not an expert's account, but a curious outsider's search for the seven most surprising things about an everyday subject — plus two bonus chapters, on Lot's wife and a little-known salt shortage that nearly hobbled the Continental Army.

Curious, a little lost, and taking notes.

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