It’s such a simple question. And yet it seems to generate so much family conflict in readers of this newsletter. There are the no-salt parents who are scandalized by grandma adding salt to the mashed sweet potato. And then there are the pro-salt people, who groan at their sister-in-law’s insistence on a separate salt-free meal…

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