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Salt — Gourmet Status




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Salt — Gourmet Status

Gourmet chocolate, gourmet coffee, gourmet tea, gourmet olive oil, gourmet cookies . . . you can now add "salt" to the luxury list of specialty foods/exotic ingredients!

Pick up a magazine or newspaper and you'll discover yet another article on designer salt. (A recent one: "Salt, That Essential Flavor," Los Angeles Times — April 6, 2005)

"Salt: A World History," by Mark Kurlansky, has sold a quarter of a million copies. To buy this book, click: salt

Salt, make that — gourmet salt(s) — is big these days — huge in concept and selection. (Look for ads of celebrities with salt-flecked lips that mimic those "milk mustache" ads.)

(For details on a "salt sampler," click: Six compartment shaker)

The names of these specialty salts are as varied as the roles they play in cooking:

fleur de sel
smoked fleur de sel
Himalyan pink
Danish Viking Smoked
Hawaiian red
Black Salish smoked
Peruvian pink
Black coral
Balinese coarse
Tunisian pink
sel gris [A negative for your editor — "Muddy appearance and taste."]
Australian pink
California sea
fume de sel
Cyprus black lava flake
Halen Môn
Kosher salt
La Baleine
Maldon

Colors include: white, pink, red, gray, golden and black

Textures include: fine, coarse, flaky and chunky

Prices include: $30 - 4 ounces — Japanese Jewel of The Ocean


Want to sample several designer salts without busting your budget?

Dave's Insanity Gourmet now offers Dave's 6 Gourmet Salts: Six compartment shaker contains Hawaiian Red Salt, Eurasian Black Salt, Grey Salt [sel gris], Fleur de Sel, Smoked Salt and Italian Sea Salt. (3.75 ounces)
Product number: DASAL
Price: $5.99

For an illuminating selection of gourmet food salts, visit:

Salt Traders
The Spice House
SaltWorks
Salts Of The World

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