Kosher salt is a favorite for celebrity chefs and home cooks alike but what exactly is it? We've done the deep dive and have ...

And since it’s so small, fine salt fits through the little holes on the top of salt shakers. Coarse salt, on the other hand, dissolves slowly, even when heat is applied.

How can salt -- a mineral, after all -- be kosher, or indeed non-kosher? Does it have to be mined under the careful ...

At a Japanese restaurant one recent evening in New York City, I watched the chef liberally season a $50 Kobe beef rib-eye with fine-grained salt. “Excuse me,” I inquired, “may I ask what ...

Table salt is the fine-textured version of sodium chloride. Since the 1920s, ... Fine-grained salt doesn’t do the job. Kosher salt might or might not contain anti-caking agents.

Coarse, fine, kosher, baking — all the terms matter, but you might want to take them all with a grain of salt. Sign up for Eater's newsletter The freshest news from the food world every day ...

• If Americans dramatically cut their sodium intake to 1,500 mg per day, up to 1.2 million deaths could be prevented over the next 10 years — deaths largely caused by heart disease or stroke.