I know, this is not a must, and probably even sounds ridiculous- but I love my salt bowl in my kitchen! I am not even a huge salt fan, and I try to keep things low sodium, however, something about having a salt dish next to your stove just makes you feel fancier and flashier as a cook! Plus, you constantly need to season whatever you are cooking with salt and pepper (if you don’t do this, than this is why your food is bland and probably kind of gross) so it is handy to just have a salt dish next to your stove. I would have a pepper dish as well, however, I do prefer the pepper to be freshly cracked, and I have a wonderful pepper mill that my mother brought me from Cortona, Italy. So, I have to use that!
Back to the salt dish, you just pinch and dab as you go along testing and tasting. It just makes the experience fancier and more enjoyable! Use a pretty, decorative, or fun salt bowl. For 8 years, I used a wide flower bud vase that my husband and I bought at a wonderful old mansion in Ireland, where we stayed on our honeymoon. I never used it for flowers, so finally I began using it as my salt dish, and I loved it, because it had meaning. Luke broke it last year while cleaning the kitchen one night. I was so sad! He was sad, and he swore he could glue it back together.....I now have a cute bowl from Anthropologie.
