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The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune

The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune

Update: 2024-04-07
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Today I am talking to three guests about the Scottish Salt Industry – returning guest Aaron Allen, and also Joanne Hambly and Ed Bethune

In today’s most enlightening discussion, we talk about the importance of the salt industry in Scotland from the early modern period, the uses of salt – beyond seasoning of food, the Cockenzie Saltworks Project, the social history of the site and some of the exciting archaeological finds uncovered there, how salt was made, and why Sunday salt is the best salt – amongst many other things.

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Salt: Scotland’s Oldest Newest Industry is out now and published by Birlinn.

Other things mentioned in today’s episode:

1722 Waggonway Project website

Salt Symposium 2021 on the SCAPE Trust website

Book your ticket for the 2024 Leeds Symposium on Food History and Traditions


Previous podcast episodes pertinent to today’s episode:

Cake Baxters in Early Modern Scotland with Aaron Allen


Neil’s blogs:

‘British Food: a History’

‘Neil Cooks Grigson’


Neil’s books:

Before Mrs Beeton: Elizabeth Raffald, England’s Most Influential Housekeeper

A Dark History of Sugar

Both are published by Pen & Sword and available from all good bookshops.


Don’t forget, there will be postbag episodes in the future, so if you have any questions or queries about today’s episode, or indeed any episode, or have a question about the history of British food please email Neil at neil@britishfoodhistory.com, or on twitter and BlueSky @neilbuttery, or Instagram and Threads dr_neil_buttery. His DMs are open.

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The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune

The Scottish Salt Industry with Joanna Hambly, Aaron Allen & Ed Bethune

Neil Buttery