THE plasticity of rock salt crystals when immersed in water has been the subject of much attention recently 1. The fact that the effect takes place more easily in hot water suggests that the rate ...

The process starts with rust, or ferric oxide, which can either be ... [Chase]’s crystal-growing efforts have shown up here before, when he turned humble table salt into beautiful cubic crystals.

America’s great salt swap began in the 1980s, when farmers’-market culture and the health-food movement helped American chefs acquaint themselves with specialty ingredients, Bitterman told me: ...