A very popular type of lidded salt cellar is one with a magnetic lid that easily swivels or slides for salt access. These allow you to grab salt crystals with a single hand — just slide the lid ...

Best of all, this cellar is dishwasher safe -- a rarity among salt cellars -- making upkeep a breeze. It's a cellar option that you surely won't need to worry about.

But I also have more than one type of salt, which means I need more than one type of salt cellar. It turns out a Mason jar, sans metal band, works quite well.

The Salt Cellar, located down a flight of stairs off a small side street in Portsmouth, N.H., proves the doubters wrong. In fact, the duo opened a second Salt Cellar in Portland, Maine, a year later.

In the first, baffling days of the pandemic, when we were all grasping at straws, a friend told me gargling with salt and water would be a defence. At least it’s an idea with some pedigree. Salt ...