Cuisine at home

WHAT TO USE

AT $30 A POUND, some salts can be quite expensive, so you need to exercise good judgment when selecting salt for your kitchen — especially exotic salts.

For regular cooking, nothing beats 80¢ a pound kosher salt. It blends well, is clean-tasting, easy to cook with, and many brands (like Diamond Crystal) are additive free.

But not all salts, like finishing salt,

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