Salt is used so often that it's easy to fall into habits that sabotage your home-cooked dish. Here's what we're doing wrong, ...

There is no ingredient more essential to every form of home cookery than salt. It’s one of the building blocks of life; an essential nutrient in the human body; a tool used in most every cooking ...

We’ve all been there, standing in the kitchen, following what we thought was expert advice, only to end up with a culinary ...

“Salt is easily the most important thing chefs keep in the kitchen,” says Robert Hartman, chef de cuisine at Saint Theo’s restaurant in New York City. It helps bring out the natural flavors in food, ...

When regular pasta is boiled in salted water, the gluten inside of it maintains its structure, and the starch granules are ...

Salt is an essential element for all animal life, including humans, who long ago realized the naturally occuring substance was an effective preservative and flavor enhancer. In addition to the ...

Whether you prefer your spaghetti al dente or soothingly soft, it can be difficult to achieve perfection at home. Many of us ...

Salt is the most important seasoning tool in your kitchen — while also perhaps the most maligned. “It’s an essential nutrient, a chemical that our bodies can’t do without,” Harold McGee writes in “On ...

A new technology marketed in Japan offers lower salt use without loss or change of flavor. It is delivered through a special ...

Inspired by cottage pie, these beefy English jacket potatoes are baked to perfection then topped off with a hearty, savory, ...