Salt makes everything taste better.
It even makes ice cream taste better, and that’s a hard thing to do.
However, it’s effectiveness also makes it dangerous. It can become a crutch. We can become dependent on it to make a tasty meal.
But what if we throw away the salt? What then? What would we do differently? What spices would we find in the back of our cupboards? What condiments, flavours, aromatics, and methods would we seek out to bring life to our dishes?
This post isn’t about salt or cooking, though. It’s about constraints and creativity.
What happens when we remove the luxury items of time, cash, or “more humans” from any project we’re working on?
What would we do differently if we had less?
And do we need to have less in order to do things differently?