Myths About Salt You Thought Were True - Chowhound

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images For cooks, salt is like air and water: It's absolutely essential, but since it's almost always around, we don't often give it much thought. Rare are the occasions when we shop for it intentionally (unless we come upon an especially pretty variety or eye-catching container), and even rarer are the occasions when we run out of it. And when that happens, we're caught flat footed: How could…