Kosher salt or sea salt? Which one belongs in your kitchen, and does it really matter? Mark Kurlansky, in Salt: A World History, calls salt "the only rock we eat," highlighting its role in shaping ...

There’s table salt, Kosher salt, sea salt, and Himalayan salt—just to name a few. But while all these salts contain sodium, only one—table salt—has been fortified with iodine, an essential ...

but many other bloggers and cookbook authors prefer kosher salt or suggest finishing a dish with flakey sea salt. Meanwhile, bakers love fine sea salt. What is a cook to do? A naturally occurring ...

While it's a pantry staple used for seasoning everyday dishes, its fine texture makes it ideal for baking. As the name suggests, sea salt is derived from evaporating seawater, which leaves behind salt ...

Pretty much everyone eats salt, every day, and it’s different now. Yet even kosher salt’s most fervent converts may not entirely understand how it’s different. Kosher salt, like all salt ...