What's so kosher about kosher salt? Get all the facts, myths, and tips. Recipe

It's taken over the gourmet world. You pretty much wouldn't write a recipe that includes salt without it. It's also an annoying fact of life for those of us googling "kosher" recipes - that yummy salt bumps up almost every recipe to the top of the list even if it's a recipe for bacon double cheeseburgers.

First of all, you may already know that "kosher" salt is no more or less kosher than any other salt. That is, it's kosher, but so is table salt, coarse salt, sea salt, Himalayan pink mountain salt, and every other form of pure salt.

So if you eat kosher and cook kosher, you CAN use kosher salt. But you don’t have to. So why is it called kosher?

That’s actually just a mistake. This flattish crystalline form of salt…