If you’ve been inside a grocery store in the past couple of years, you’ve probably noticed the trend in food manufacturers adding “Made with sea salt” to their product packaging. The claim shows up on ...

The answer: Sea salt is the latest food to be crowned with a health halo—and it's trendy too, showing up on restaurant menus and product labels for everything from pretzels to deli meats. But the ...

You've probably noticed that some recipes call for salt while others specifically call for kosher salt. Just salt likely means table salt, such as Morton Iodized Salt, while kosher salt will say—you ...

“Salt is easily the most important thing chefs keep in the kitchen,” says Robert Hartman, chef de cuisine at Saint Theo’s restaurant in New York City. It helps bring out the natural flavors in food, ...

In truth, not much. The primary ingredient in both, not surprisingly, is sodium chloride. In fact, the U.S. government requires that any food-grade salt be a minimum of 97.5 percent pure, so any type ...

For years, I politely declined to keep the pedestrian substance known as table salt in my pantry. Spurred by the belief that real chefs use kosher salt—and my desire to be one, too—I dutifully bought ...

New Yorkers are bracing for more snow and subzero temperatures, and if you ran out of rock salt last weekend, you’re not out of options. Here are five household items that can help melt snow and ...

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