On Food and Cooking

in proteins and phospholipids, egg yolks don’t foam well on their own because they don’t contain eno ...

stovetop heat. Salt The word sauce comes via Latin from anancient root word meaning “salt,” the primordial ...

ultimately from the rocks that erode into them. It’s an essential nutrient, a chemical that our ...

chloride ions. These atoms are smaller and more mobile than any molecule, and therefore readily penetrate ou ...

revolutionary France to Gandhi’s 1930 salt march to Dandi. Salt Production People have been gathering c ...

the salt, then evaporating the brine down in vacuum chambers to form solid crystals. While some sea sal ...

sodium chloride does, and so can be separated. The sodium chloride in turn crystallizes before t ...

rapidly. To be preserved, the flakes must be scooped off the surface before they settle and sink into the ...

crystals, are the densest salts, and take the longest to dissolve. Standard table salt is oft ...

deficiency (below). This practice began in the United States in 1924. Because iodide is sensitive to ...

crunchy texture and a burst of flavor. The flat crystals don’t pack together as compactly as cubic crystals ...

can take as much as five years. In most places the freshly harvested salt is washed of its surface ...

a special product of the sea-salt beds of west- central France. It consists of the crystals that form and a ...

turned into a carrier for other flavors and for decorative colors. Examples of flavored salts include celery sa ...

something like 1 gram of salt per day, a requirement that goes up with physical activity since w ...

potassium, calcium, and other minerals — together with physical exercise that conditions the whole car ...

Iodized Salt Some salts do carry an undisputed health benefit. Iodized salts include trace amounts ...

on the tongue, general health, age, and experience. Most young adults can identify as salty a ...

The Physical Properties of Salt Salt generally remains a solid in the kitchen unless it’s dissolved. R ...

Chapter 12 Sugars, Chocolate, and Confectionery The History of Sugars and Confectionery Before Sugar: Honey Sugar: Beginn ...