that’s not totally true. you just have to care about the history of the eggplant—the treaty of ghent and the jurassic period and the industrial revolution are kind of irrelevant in this situation. the thing is, we salt sliced eggplant before cooking because of what the vegetable used to ...
Can you cook eggplant without salting it? No need to salt first. Most recipes for eggplant insist you salt it before cooking. ... If you're cooking it in some other way — roasting, grilling, steaming — salting has no effect. And when you are salting eggplant for frying, it takes a...