I started buying coarse kosher salt instead of the fine, uniform, iodized table salt I’d grown up with. I do not remember why ...

So less salt shaking is a good idea. Most of the sodium we consume does not come from the salt shaker, however. Three-fourths of the sodium in our collective American diet comes from … ready?

As long as it still tastes okay, if you spot some clumps, just shake or tap the package to break things up—and consider refreshing your salt stock in the near future.

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 ...