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?

When we learn to salt mindfully and to understand and control the effects salt has on both the flavor and the chemistry of cooking our food then we have begun that journey to flavor mastery.

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.