Kosher salt, like all salt, is NaCl—sodium ions electrostatically bound with chloride ions and arranged in a crystal ...

Kosher salt or sea salt? Which one belongs in your kitchen, and does it really matter? Mark Kurlansky, in Salt: A World ...

While fine-grain table salt is what you'll usually find in shakers or packets, coarse salts -- like kosher salt and sea salt ...

I mostly use table salt in my cooking, but many other bloggers and cookbook authors prefer kosher salt or suggest finishing a dish with flakey sea salt. Meanwhile, bakers love fine sea salt.

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 ...