"TableSalt" news and stories

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of tidbits from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week.

• Candy corn face-off! YumSugar puts Hershey's up against Brach's to see whose candy corn reigns supreme.
• Debunking the myths around cooking mussels.
• It seems that table salt has gone AWOL from many restaurant tables.
• Did you know that you can now order pizza through your Facebook account?
• Lobster prices have fallen drastically this season, leaving many Lobstermen in the financial lurch.
• Spice up Halloween morning with these spooky pancake molds.
• Next time you have a craving for deep dish pizza, consider trying this polenta version.
• It appears that Bennigan's is back!

Do you know your Black Salt from your Celtic Salt? Me neither. I only have Maldon sea salt in my kitchen - big flakes in a pot, some in the grinder and pounded into a fine powder by the pestle and mortar - but as this page shows there are plenty of different types with various uses.

As well as detailing various types, there are some interesting background snippets. For example did you know that table salt, which is refined, is mostly iodized in America and has been since the 1920's. This was to prevent a goiter (an enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by iodine deficiency). We require less than 225 micrograms of iodine a day; sea salt contains the iodine naturally. It is only mined salt that requires the addition.

[Image Andrew Barrow]

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