What’s great for chefs may not be great for home cooks. Kosher salt isn’t inherently better, and in some cases may be worse. I’ve now spent hours on the phone with salt connoisseurs—at one ...

While fine-grain table salt is what you'll usually find in shakers or packets, coarse salts -- like kosher salt and sea salt ...

Himalayan pink salt is often used in cooking as a finishing salt ... As per legends, it was first used in traditional Ayurvedic medicine but has become increasingly popular amongst the Western vegan ...

It is now “the lingua franca of restaurant kitchens”—as Mark Bitterman, who has written four books about cooking with salt, put it—and a cheffy shibboleth in home kitchens ... are best for drawing the ...