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, ...

It turns out, according to experts, the best salt depends on what you're making. Simply Recipes/ Alison Bickel Salt is one of the most important ingredients in cooking. It’s been used to preserve ...

It may not seem that important to a novice chef, but properly salting your food is as vital as any cooking technique. In fact, once culinary aspirants nail down proper salting, it's the easiest way to ...

“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, ...

Ina Garten said one of the most common cooking errors is not using salt correctly. Garten said she uses Kosher salt for cooking and flaky salt for garnishing food. Garten also said that people often ...

It's time to put the biggest misconception about MSG to rest -- it's not a manufactured chemical additive but is derived from an amino acid. Monosodium glutamate has been used as a flavor enhancer for ...

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 ...

Have you been using salt wrong all your life? Are you marinating too long, thinking that it’s necessary for flavoring? Find out which cooking techniques are the subject of heated debates among ...

I have spent a big chunk of my adult life thinking about salt, even obsessing over it at times. It comes with my job as a culinary dietitian and your Nourish columnist. For me, salt is a make-or-break ...