Great piece, if you do say so yourself. To add to the salt inanity, there is a guy from somewhere in Napa who commands his audience to only cook with gray salt. As if a soup cooked with gray salt tastes any different than one...

Go to whole foods. They should have several varieties including sea salt and gray salt (pricier than sea salt)

I use Morton’s Kosher salt for all my normal cooking. I just bought some Shallot salt from Penzey’s, haven’t tried it yet. What’s with "gray salt", Michael Chiarello seems in love with that stuff.

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, they brought me out a sampler of four salts (gray, red, pink, and white fleur de sel). My only complaint: The bread stuffing featured little chunks of the duck’s liver, which tasted dry and mealy and overcooked. Also:...

Has anyone eaten at Sea Salt in Naples? What did you think of it? Thanks

who buy them expect that. after all, i really don’t think anyone who purchases 'citrus rosemary gray salt' believes that it was harvested from some rare, random patch of sand on the ocean floor that conveniently happened to...

) a judicious sprinkling of large-grain salt (Fleur de Sel is the best, of course, but any coarse grain salt like Celtic Gray is delicious). This is a delicious snack that I’ve actually never seen anywhere for purchase, but...

Fleur de sel (literally "flower of salt") is harvested on the northern coast of France by scraping off the tops of the salt crystals as the sea water evaporates. I believe it’s also called "gray salt" in some circles. I was...

brands so you’ll have to decide if you want a fine or coarse salt ... or both. Color will also vary widely – ivory, stark white, blue/gray, pink/gray. I believe the pinkness is from the same algae that contributes...

Hey 'hounds, I am excited to try making confit pork belly this weekend but just realized I’m short a key ingredient and am not sure where to source it. It is salt that contains nitrite and goes by many names: pink salt (not...

It also depends on which variety you get. There are the ones with just salt but I like the ones that are sweet too. Yeah, the red ones are reliably sweet/salty, though my favorite are the gray ones. I find the just salty ones too...

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would result in pink colored meat rather than the typical gray color attained with a plain salt cure." Saltpeter has been used for many, many years before the 1800’s – most certainly people would have noted the color...

. I plan to give friends smoked Maldon salt this Christmas. The little pyramids really stand out when they’ve turned gray from the smoke. I read about smoking salt somewhere, and I could swear that the article said that it...