It’s time to talk about sodium chloride — AKA salt. You may be thinking that salt is just salt and what else could there possibly be to know. Whilst it may be one of the simplest ways of seasoning a dish that is used in kitchens across the world, it can also singlehandedly make or break a meal depending on if you add too much or too little.
Unlike most other herbs and spices, it doesn’t smell, yet has the most distinctive of flavours when consumed, bringing back distantly nostalgic memories of trips to get chips at the seaside.