Sōki is an ingredient of Okinawan cuisine. Sōki are stewed pork spare ribs, with the cartilage still attached. They are often served with Okinawa soba.
A bowl of sōki soba noodles
Salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride. When used in food, especially in granulated form, it is more formally called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is
Rock salt (halite)
Salt production in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, 1670
Ponds near Maras, Peru, fed from a mineral spring and used for salt production since pre-Inca times
A SEM image of a grain of table salt