Low-sodium soups from the store? Bland, expensive, and still not completely salt-free. That’s why I’m so excited to share this recipe for salt-free cream of broccoli soup.

When you salt food — before, during and after cooking — can matter even more than how much you add.

Salt has been essential to cooking – and the human existence – for thousands of years. Our bodies can’t function without it. Our food is often tastier with it.

Find out which cooking techniques are the subject of heated debates among seasoned chefs and which side of the table you’re on. Should you salt before or after cooking?

Those are just two of the surprises revealed in Mark Bitterman's latest cookbook "Salt Block Cooking: 70 Recipes for Grilling, Chilling, Searing and Serving on Himalayan Salt Blocks." ...

(Salt also causes some proteins to precipitate before they leave muscle cells, which keeps the surface of dry-brined salmon bright and orange even during cooking.) ...