I don't think I would eat in her restaurant - that's for sure.
She's always flapping her wings and calling food crap! Her and her lame attempts to make up new words (copying Rachel Ray) with her brown food and Earl for her oil. Total turn-off in my book.
I don't know where they got her - but they couldn't do any worse.

I almost always sprinkle salt on meats before I cook them. Salt kills bacteria, and also helps defrost that last little bit of frozen meat on a cut you had defrosting in the fridge . But I try to go easy when using it. I rarely use it at the table.

I notice a lot of salt on the FN in general. I always notice that their measurements are way off, unless they have really REALLY tiny hands.

I was absent a coupla days, and after returning, somehow I've been missing this thread, janie... didn't see it until just now! (BTW- yes! Just WHO is this puppy-dawg-eyed boy your new avatar highlights? Looks lonesome- like he could use some company... Hee-Hee!)

I think lotsa commercial kitchens are guilty of using products (like chicken and meat bases) that have tons of added salt. But the other side of that I think is, most restaurant cooks tend to season with the idea that they're not seasoning according to personal taste- rather, seasoning for the public, who may have more sensitive palettes, preferring blander food. I would venture to say based on my own experience, that in most cases, restaurant cooks likely under-salt, versus over-salt, but I could be wrong, on the whole.

I personally tend to salt lightly. My Dad comes from that generation of hard-working, blue-collar men who came up never lettin' hold of the salt shaker the whole time they sat at the supper-table! He salts food before he even tastes it!

The only foods I tend to salt for myself are hard boiled eggs and sliced tomatoes. I also add half a dash of salt to oatmeal when it's cooking in the pan. Other than that- sometimes I go days without salting anything. Though I must admit, occasionally, like once or twice a month- I crave salty foods like potato chips or pretzels. But a coupla handfulls and I'm good.

Speaking of salt- it's such a hidden item in many things that we don't even suspect contain it! If you have your doubts, try a spoon-full of no-salt cottage cheese! I was SHOCKED! Had to actually spit it out it was so awful!

That is the guy from that new movie Twilight. Rob Pattinson.
My younger sister is crazy about him and that movie.

He reminds me of somebody from the 80's, but I can't remember who..