Soy Sauce, Pickle Pie and Other Salty Stories

Everything tastes better with a little salt. In this reel, we’re hitting you with a dash of bamboo salt, a splash of soy sauce and a serving of pickle pie.

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[Music] [Music] for centuries Koreans have believed in the municipal properties of a folk remedy called Dugan or in English bamboo salt young Chui Gilman whatever mineral woven bamboo salt is ubiquitous in South Korea it is made by repeatedly roasting salt in stocks of bamboo its adherents claim it combats disease indigestion and pain but what's certain is it's not easy to make material given Y Junipero Honda Integra John Doe LCD food ago has an American Jaguar - elidio g3p Alan groaning from code eons ago video the definitive method was fashioned in the early 20th century by a famed medicine man named Kim ilhoon near the end of Kim Alan's life his son Kim Yoon se established a bamboo salt company that preserved and industrialised the family's salt making method headed on youngin cancer Amita tomato-y tonometry anechoic we are open s o sanam o challenge Apollo tell me de queso de Namur otra vez una muchacha go so conclusion on Culp Assad regime are open tienen una mujer de Gredos o substantive approach OD hazel Venusian young Haden go sir sickle jung han gauri pero según una prisa Henrickson taniyama phenom what animal characters of androgen Han gajanan venerable New England for Kim the three year process is worth every minute producing it is a way to honor both this uniquely Korean remedy and his father's legacy [Music] until sixty years ago all soy sauce was made like this and it tasted totally different but there's a small island off the eastern coast of Japan with the town center called the country of soy sauce here despite a government ordinance to modernize production a small group of people continued to make it the traditional way Yasuo Yamamoto is one of those people I'm a new Honda bento Tokina keo keo no I'll show you the new Hornets curry also no more each parcel or kittymuz potassium Iowa Yamamoto so des casino yah yah jacuzzi Onancock so it's akatsuki las Cuates reward I made a OD sandeman he owes us an asado para para nada show is costomer Yamamoto isn't doing this alone a few of the people who helped him mr. 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she didn't like the recipe at all so she changed it around and now the pickle pie is the very best jazz far as I know we are the only place that makes the pickle pie in pickle pie you will find sugar butter milk eggs lemon extract cornstarch cinnamon nutmeg and of course the piglets so we've got this all mixed in really nice and smooth so now we're gonna pour it into our unbaked pie shell to put in the oven scrape the edges so you get all the flavor and this one right here is one that we baked this morning Wow pickle pie this is delicious a little tiny bit of cream on it just gives it that a little bit of sweet and sour but you need to set off the taste buds a salty the customers like the pickle pie but I think the biggest selling point is curiosity this look like the d-des this pie tastes very similar to a pumpkin fire to it it's not like overpowering here anything good flavor wait how sweet it's like super sweet it's not really sweet I think it's gonna sell vitriol is a very small little town we are about three hours from Salt Lake City then you don't have to live in a great big city to have good food you have to have pride and an imagination it's more than just a pie it's your work of art it's something that you have done and it looks pretty and it tastes good and you can be proud of it [Music] burrowed deep in the bedrock of real monta Sicily is one of the largest salt mines in Europe and inside that salt mine is a cathedral to find this holiest of underground places you'll have to navigate 62 miles of spacious pattern tunnels concentric circles made 5 million years ago from the evaporation of an ancient ocean adorn the walls lighter rings indicate a hot summer darker indicate the cool of winter and deep into these swirling pattern caves you'll find a cathedral carved out of the salt faced by the mines workers it comes complete with an altar steps and a crucifix eight hundred worshipers can fit inside and the space is consecrated in the name of Saint Barbara the patron saint of miners the salt mine itself plays a large role in the local economy and produces around 500,000 tons of salt each year but its value to the spirit and the eye is unmatched located in Romania around 400 feet below the town surface is the Celina tirta an underground theme park inside one of the oldest salt mines in the world [Music] Syleena tirta is believed to be nearly 2000 years old during its time as a salt mine it is estimated that over three billion tons of salt was excavated from the walls before mining stopped in 1932 [Music] this underground hub has had various uses in the past from a cheese storage center to a World War two bomb shelter but its current usage is perhaps its most unique in the early 1990s Selena torta was carefully converted into a subterranean theme park and museum this active Park includes a 180 seat amphitheater an underground lake with paddle and row boats [Music] mini-golf course ping-pong tables and of course a ferris wheel over two million people have visited since its opening the dizzying effect of the place will leave you feeling like you've left reality in this subterranean Wonderland you