Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Pat fish dry. Fill a sheet pan large enough to fit fish with a ¼-inch layer of salt. Place fish on top and mound remaining salt so it completely covers fish. Roast fish in ...

Baking a whole fish in a crust of salt is a culinary illusion of the highest order. On the table, it is not only delicious, moist, and tender but also absolutely stunning — a show-stopping centerpiece ...

As it emerges from the kitchen, the white glistening oblong gives no hint as to what it is, but it is carried so gently and with such a sense of reverence you could imagine it had some religious ...

What was quite possibly the single best dish I’ve eaten this year came to my table as a bleak white mound that looked less like food than some kindergartner’s art project igloo. That it was wheeled ...

The effect of salt-baking is similar to baking (steaming) in parchment paper, Stewart writes in her newest cookbook, "Martha Stewart's Cooking School." The salt absorbs steam and becomes a hard shell ...