Stir in the corn, beans, wine or vermouth, water and 1 teaspoon salt.

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You would be hard pressed to ever use a whole teaspoon of salt on a single serving of food or to get that many grams of fat onto your salad.

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As somebody who easily gets obsessed with measurements while cooking, filling the teaspoon of salt to the grain, recipes presented in this form feel closer to how I imagine anyone with actual cooking acumen approaches the metonymic kitchen.

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