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The artisan World of Gourmet Salts




Today we have thought to write a few lines about the Gourmet Salts, from all around the World. The exclusive collections and blends that you can find can vary from pretty much every texture to a whole expression of tastes and aromas.


In fact, we would like to make a short note about one leading Salt, ultimate reference - SaltWorks®, and you can check and even buy their products on SaltWorks.com. Their proud themselves with a great variety of salt collections, from all over the world, starting from France to the Himalayas. The company is using high production excellence and processes for best qualities.


And if we speak about Gourmet Salts, we should know first what a great importance can give to hand-harvest the salt in order to keep its natural forms. Gourmet salts are rare, artisanal created. It can be smoked and can have different textures and sizes, all these are very important when we think about layering the salts on food. This will give a special taste and finish to the dish. Crystal salts, river salts and mixtures with pepper or other spices will become that one particular touch on the plate. It is that one thing that makes it unique and amazing.


You can discover some of the blends, such as the African Pearls, from Namibia / Atlas Mountain (Morocco), the Black Lava from Hawaii, or the Red Alaea. All exotic blends with fine taste. See another great source, the gourmetsalts.co.uk. If you would like a touch from Asia, the Matcha blends are amazing to try. Amazing and healthy at the same time.


You can read a cool article about the History of the Gourmet Salts, on Beyond the Shaker’s website, ‘’Our modern-day uses of salt are a culmination of centuries-worth of cultures who coveted salt as a precious, rare, and indispensable commodity. To have salt readily available is a very recent luxury—a luxury by which Egyptian pharaohs and European kings would have been astonished. […] Salt, for much of human history, has been a highly-valued commodity that served many purposes, but perhaps the most useful and powerful purpose is preservation. Salt has an uncanny ability to preserve just about anything be it a vegetable or even a human cadaver!’’ http://beyondtheshaker.com/pages/salt-guide/salt-guide-history.html



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