At a time when most cooks prepare meals in minutes, a time-consuming culinary trend is taking shape. Salt blocks — large pinkish blocks mined in Pakistan — are used to cook, cure, freeze, brown and ...

Many people cook with salt, adding its crystallized form to dishes in order to enhance the natural flavors of meats, vegetables and other foods. But did you know you can use it to cook on so long as ...

This week on Good Food, Evan talks to “selmelier” Mark Bitterman about Salt Block Cooking, his latest book that includes 70 recipes dedicated to cooking on Himalayan salt blocks. The book includes a ...

Over the course of the past year I’ve purchased three Himalayan Salt Blocks to give as gifts. In case you haven’t heard of them, these salt blocks are gorgeous, rosy-hued and crystalline cookware that ...

To stretch a supply of salt generally means using it sparingly. But researchers were startled when they found they had made the solid actually physically stretch. Common table salt — so brittle that ...