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 is a staggering variety of salt on store shelves, but you really only need a few kinds. Even Alex Guarnaschelli only ...

Before I started cooking more seriously in my early 20s, certain ingredients seemed pretty simple. Butter was butter. Flour was flour — I didn’t know that there was a marked difference between A.P.