Interesting facts about salt

In Roman times, salt was so precious a commodity that soldiers received it as a portion of their pay. This is how the word salary originated - its Latin word, salarium, means "salt money." It also is where the phrase "worth one's salt" comes from.

Nowadays, salt is cheap and everywhere to be found. But be careful with the salt hand. Although each cell in our body actually contains cell, eating too much salt can slowly kill you. And keep in mind that it is not only the pinch of salt that you add that you have to watch, it also is the salt content in canned food and take-outs. Read more about salt and sodium at CNN Health.

How to get salt out of food

When you had an accident with the salt shaker or even made food to salty, take an apple (or potato) cut into wedges and put it into the saucepan. After cooking for about 10 minutes remove
wedges which would have absorbed the excess salt.

How to ripen green tomatoes

Place a ripe apple in a paper bag with the with the green tomatoes. Leave for a couple of days and "WOW"- you'll have ripe tomatoes. For best results keep about 5 or 6 tomatoes to 1 apple in the bag.

Apples make juicy chickens

Sometimes roast chickens comes out the oven dried-out and tough. Try this trick: when you prepare you chicken to roast stuff an apple inside the chicken before roasting. When the chicken is done remove the apple. You will then serve up a delicious juicy roast chicken.

It's what you eat

Famous New York Times food writer Mark Bittman gets all fired up about cooking. He explains the importance of fresh fruit and vegetables in your diet and asks, "What's wrong with what we eat." In his words, "It's not about the carotene, it's about the carrot. "