Salt and the City

Salt is that one key ingredient which always wants to be a part of every dish that we make, Love it, Hate it but you just can't ignore it!! Try ignoring it and it will come back to haunt you.

Today I'm going to take you to the salt pans of suburban Mumbai, these salt pans have been a part of this region for over a 100 years now. While the final processing happens in a fancy factory unit but not much has changed when it come to extracting the crude salt.

Here are some pics of the salt pans.

The guys who work here hardly make $150 a month in wages

Are you worth your Salt?

When i used to visit these salt pans as a kid they were spread across everywhere but sadly nowadays a large part of their land has been grabbed by the building construction guys, who want to create a concrete jungle here.
May be in a few years time these pictures will be the only memory of what the landscape once looked like.

Salt and the City.


I'm posting this for My World Tuesday do visit them.