Morton and Diamond Crystal are the most common brands ... it is less salty than fine-grained table salt and the preferred option of most chefs for cooking. That’s because the grains are small ...

Bakers have a lot of different opinions about what type of salt to use in recipes. But what are the key differences between table salt and kosher salt?

America’s great salt swap began in the 1980s, when farmers’-market culture and the health-food movement helped American chefs acquaint themselves with specialty ingredients, Bitterman told me: ...