You've probably noticed those pinkish crystal chunks sitting next to regular salt at the grocery store, priced at nearly twenty times the cost. The marketing speaks of ancient purity, dozens of ...

You can make a decent corned beef dinner by buying a corned beef brisket, simmering it in a pot of water for a few hours, and adding vegetables at the end of cooking. But you can make superb New ...

Curing meat is why humans could stay put when there was nothing to grow, kill or steal. It is how conquerors and discoverers lasted while they traveled the world. But the refrigerator and the modern ...

I thought it took patience to smoke a brisket for Texas-style barbecue. Then my husband and I started making pastrami, a sliced meat staple of American Jewish delicatessens. Piles of the thinly sliced ...