NEW YORK — A ban on the use of salt in restaurant food preparation has been proposed in a bill filed in the New York State Assembly. It would include a $1,000 fine for every infraction.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” reads the bill proposed by Brooklyn democratic state assemblyman Felix Ortiz last week.
The city is already pushing food producers and restaurant chefs to cut sodium from their food by 25 per cent of the next five years.
Some of New York’s top chefs have blasted the idea. “New York City is considered the restaurant capital of the world. If they banned salt, nobody would come here anymore. Anybody who wants to taste food with no salt, go to a hospital,” Tom Colicchio, owner of Craft Restaurants and star of the Top Chef TV series, said, according to the New York Daily News.
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Salt Ban Proposed in N.Y.
NEW YORK — A ban on the use of salt in restaurant food preparation has been proposed in a bill filed in the New York State Assembly. It would include a $1,000 fine for every infraction.
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food,” reads the bill proposed by Brooklyn democratic state assemblyman Felix Ortiz last week.
The city is already pushing food producers and restaurant chefs to cut sodium from their food by 25 per cent of the next five years.
Some of New York’s top chefs have blasted the idea. “New York City is considered the restaurant capital of the world. If they banned salt, nobody would come here anymore. Anybody who wants to taste food with no salt, go to a hospital,” Tom Colicchio, owner of CraftRestaurants and star of the Top Chef TV series, said, according to the New York Daily News.
