It's in nearly every dish we cook, yet few ingredients inspire as much debate as salt. Kosher salt or sea salt? Which one belongs in your kitchen, and does it really matter? Mark Kurlansky, in Salt: A ...

There are three primary types of salt used in cooking: kosher, iodized, and sea salt. Professional chefs overwhelmingly ...

Find out what you should *really* use if a recipe calls for “salt,” then score tips for how to swap kosher salt for table salt—or vice versa. I don’t remember much from high school chemistry class, ...