Hawaiian red salt, or alaea salt, is a natural sea salt primarily harvested on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. It comes in red, green or black varieties. The volcanic red clay gives the red variety ...

In the never-ending search for foods to be snobby about, gourmets have finally got to salt. Like wine and chocolate, salt is fetishized by region, and the snootier salts sell for as much as $25 a ...