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, ...

THE AMOUNT OF salt you should consume per day depends on your specific needs, Sherry says. Although salt is not pure sodium, ...

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 ...

Salt is a staple in almost every kitchen, but you may be wasting all its potential. Its absorbent properties and coarse texture make it useful beyond cooking.

When it comes to boiling eggs, home cooks often return to familiar rituals: start with cold water, time the boil, cool the ...

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“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, ...

Acid can add balance and contrast in our cooking. Best-selling cookbook author and chef Samin Nosrat gets down to the fundamentals of flavor with four key elements: salt, fat, acid and heat. The book ...

Registered dietitian and TODAY contributor Joy Bauer shares recipes that are low in sodium but packed with flavor.