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

Salt is available as sea salt or rock salt. Sea salt is more highly prized than rock salt, which is mined and must be further refined to make cooking salt and table salt. Saltiness is masked by ...

Sodium and chloride, the main constituents of the type of salt used in cooking, make up over 90% of all the ions ... through evaporation. The Dead Sea in the Middle East is an example of this. The ...