"Season to taste" isn't a vague suggestion, it's a fundamental cooking technique. Salt is a primary cooking ingredient, but it works best when used incrementally throughout the cooking process and not just at the end. When done properly, you're seasoning the food to maximize deliciousness and also create harmony with other flavors, such as acid, sweetness, and bitterness. If you do accidentally oversalt, we offer some tips on fixing the problem. You've seen the phrase a thousand times, probably at the end of every recipe ever read: Season to taste. It sounds so casual, so… unhelpfully vague. If you're anything like me, your early encounters with that line left you staring as if it were a pop quiz you had forgotten to study for. What taste? Whose taste? Are we talking about one pinch?…