If you walk down the condiments section of your local grocery store, you may feel a little overwhelmed by the salt options. While some options, like "natural sea salt," are white, you may notice a ...

It's in nearly every dish we cook, yet few ingredients inspire as much debate as salt. Kosher salt or sea salt? Which one belongs in your kitchen, and does it really matter? Mark Kurlansky, in Salt: A ...

Are table salt and sea salt really all that different? Table salt is refined, fine-textured and often fortified with iodine and anti-caking agents. Sea salt is less processed, coarser and contains ...

Not all salt is the same. Salt plays an essential role in kitchens worldwide—preserving food, enhancing flavors, modifying textures, and so on. All salt shares the same basic chemical composition, ...

If there’s one thing we couldn’t cook without, it’s salt. We rely on it to flavor food, mellow bitterness, heighten sweetness, and make ingredients taste like the best version of themselves. Two of ...