stovetop heat.
Salt
The word sauce comes via Latin from
anancient root word meaning “salt,” the
primordial condiment that was prepared by
the earth billions of years before early humans
learned to enliven their foods with it. Salt is
an important flavoring, but also much more
than that, and is an ingredient in nearly every
preparation described in this book. The
relevant chapters explain its role in the
making of such foods as cheese, cured meats
and fish, pickled vegetables, boiled
vegetables, soy sauce, and bread. Here are a
few pages about salt itself.
The Virtues of Salt Salt is like no other
substance we eat. Sodium chloride is a simple,
inorganic mineral: it comes not from plants or
animals or microbes, but from the oceans, and