Possible Clues:

• A tasteful sailor-boy, Edward
• Experienced and with taste
• Treated food by adding salt, pepper etc
• Has Edward, your sailor boy, been cured?
• Tasteful way of saying 'an old hand'
• With salt, with salt in them with a single D
• Gave experience to children, including a boy
• Experienced when working among children
• Of food, flavoured with salt, pepper etc
• Sailor Edward has good taste