Vanilla is the most labor intensive spice in the world! Did you know that a vanilla flower only blooms for 24 hours and every single flower in commercially cultivated vanilla is hand pollinated?

I’m going to provide some overall guidelines and then go into some specific situations that I think will be very beneficial as your read through this guide to using salt.

Let's take a deeper dive into the classic Salt Pairings: Salt + Umami, Salt + Bitter, Salt + Sweet + Sour + Umami, and Salt + Sweet. Then in Part 3 I'll go over some simple tips for cooking with salt.