New York magazine’s Grub Street blog reports that state assemblyman Felix Ortiz has proposed a salt ban in restaurants. Not just a restriction, a BAN. On any use of salt in any form in the preparation of food in restaurants! Grub Street quite correctly calls the bill “insane.”

Grub Street is reacting so strongly, though, for the wrong reasons. It’s true, so much of a meal’s flavor derives from its being properly seasoned that a salt ban Read more