James Beard, the pioneer of television cooking shows, once asked, “Where would we be without salt?”. Salt is often underrated, even though it is the ingredient that has the greatest impact on food and flavor in the modern world. It has its own taste, but also balances and enhances the flavor of other ingredients. Salt boosts sweetness and blocks bitterness, it has scientifically proven capabilities to intensify flavor compounds that are too subtle to detect (i.e.