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Salt — Gourmet Status Looking for restaurants featuring counter/bar dining? Click: eating at the bar Interested in restaurants featuring communal table dining? Click: eating with others 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 Return to Top Planning a trip? Visit our sister website. Click here: SoloTravelPortal.com If you have questions or comments about this Web page or site, e-mail: webmaster@SoloDining.com. © 2009 SoloDining.com Return to To