Le Guerandais Coarse Sea Salt In Bag, 1kg ( pack of 3)

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The best salt to use depends on what you’re cooking, and whether you’re using the salt as a seasoning during cooking, or as a finishing touch before serving. These are the best salts to use for different purposes: Sea salt– use sea salt during cooking and as a finishing salt. Add it to stews and soups, pour it into boiling water when cooking pasta, or add a pinch to a dish before serving.

Salt is actually critical for life you can’t live without it. It also features in various mythologies. It is a fact that an excessive quantity of salt will get the blood pressure to rise. Salt with a bigger grain size may have a stronger flavor and last longer on your tongue. Next, you’re want to switch up the kind of salt you have from normal table salt that simple enhances the flavour of your food to a salt that in fact supplies you with minerals. Table salt differs from Himalayan salt because of the variety of minerals. As a result, if you opt not to eat regular iodine-enriched table salt, then make certain you’re eating several other foods that have a lot of iodine, like fish, dairy, eggs and seaweed. Our Celtic salt carries a certification from Nature and Progress, a French organic and environmental standard, which ensures its purity, quality and sustainability. Our Guerande salt has carried this certification since 1989. The Guérande Peninsula overlooks two contrasting landscapes: the "Pays Blanc" (White Land), because of its salt marshes, and the "Pays Noir", with the Brière peat bog. The town's salt marshes have made it a renowned producer of salt, and it is the traditional source of fleur de sel, a type of garnishing salt. Blue Salt - use the mellow and mild flavour of blue salt for seasoning delicate flavours, such as white fish or carpaccio. This dry salt has a corse texture so is ideal for use in a grinder - it's blue hue will catch the light when added to dishes at the table. Guérande is in the heart of the peninsula called "Presqu'île guérandaise", along with other towns, such as La Baule, Le Croisic, Pornichet, Batz-sur-Mer, Le Pouliguen, or Piriac.

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Pork belly is a comforting addition to a wintry salad, and pork belly cured in smoked salt is even more enticing. Salt is a mineral compound, and one of the oldest forms of seasoning as well as a traditional method of food preservation . There are numerous varieties of salt, from fleur de sel to sea salt to Himalayan pink salt . Each type has its best uses, whether that’s seasoning a dish, or sprinkling at the end for a finishing touch. Where does salt come from? During the Middle Ages, the town had a very rich history, with many important events. It was also the capital of the Pays Guérandais, an ancient region of the Duchy of Brittany.

French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1km 2 (0.386sqmi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Unlike refined industrial salts, Le Guérandais Guérande Salt does not undergo any form of washing or chemical treatment, and nothing is added (anti-caking agent, flow improvement agent, fluorine, iodine or nitrite). It was not until 1488, or 145 years later, that the ramparts, by then complete, were inaugurated during the reign of Francis II, Duke of Brittany (father of Anne of Brittany), only a few months before his death. The old walled town (known in French as vieille ville) is surrounded by nearly intact ramparts and has four fortified gates (the largest of which is a 15th-century châtelet known as Porte Saint-Michel) as well as ten towers. The pond of Mès, a smaller area, to Mesquer. It is the pond salicole most well known in northern Europe. The second Treaty of Guérande (1381) established Brittany's neutrality in the Anglo-French conflict, and was accorded between Duke John V of Brittany and King Charles VI of France.

Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Guérande, EHESS (in French). Traditionally harvested Atlantic Sea Salt from the Celtic Sea coast of Brittany. Natural crystals of sea salt that has not been ground, and as such appears as a coarse grey Celtic sea salt. Umami and sodium-rich, the katsuobushi magically lifts a dish. Spoon a little over ramen, or really anywhere else at all – instead of anchovies in a lamb dish, a few teaspoons in a winter vegetable soup, and so on. The main towns around Guérande are Saint-Nazaire and Nantes to the East (19km (11.81mi) and 80km (49.71mi) away), and Vannes (70km (43.50mi) to the North). Salish smoked salt has both a rich smoky flavour, but also gives a welcome salty crunch sprinkled over the top of caramels.

Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.Notre-Dame la Blanche Church. Listed building in 1910. Built in Gothic style in the 14th century under Jean de Montfort, is the oldest building in the medieval city. The Balzac novel Béatrix is set in Guérande, concerning Calyste, son of the Baron de Guenic, and his relations with characters based on George Sand, Franz Liszt, and Marie d'Agoult. The majority of the salts are alike, composed of sodium chloride and very small amounts of minerals. Sea salt is created by evaporating seawater. Healthwise, sea salts are thought to be beneficial due to the mineral content. Himalayan sea salt may also be found in slabs of different shapes and sizes. Since Celtic sea salt is full of mineral content it’s considered more healthy. It is expensive, but having a healthy body sometimes cost you a little more. Celtic Sea Salt Celtic Salt is a significant salt harvested from the present ocean.

The salt of Guérande used to be traded throughout Brittany, tax free until Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte decided to tax it resulting in the beginning of a decline of salt activity. The seawater carries on its journey until it has evaporated enough and only the natural grey salt crystals are left behind. These crystals are raked up by hand. The people here in Le Guerandais region have made their living this way, in harmony with their environment, continually for many centuries. Le Guérandais Guérande Salt is produced in Brittany by the ocean, sun and wind and is hand-harvested by salt workers, using skills and a method that are over a thousand years old. This small village between Guerande and La Turballe has many typical houses of salt workers. There are many monuments of interest such as the Sainte-Catherine church (built during the 15th century), Requer's Cross ( listed building in 1944) as well as parts of an old Roman wall. Tanneguy Lehideux, Combats d'un Chouan: Terrien coeur de lion, colonel de Chouans, Chevalier de Saint-Louis or La Chouannerie in Upper Brittany and Anjou, La Crèche, Geste éditions, 2009, 443 p. (ISBN 978-2-84561-509-0, notice BnF no FRBNF41454424).Leung AM, Braverman LE, Pearce EN. History of U.S. iodine fortification and supplementation. Nutrients. 2012;4(11):1740-1746. doi:10.3390/nu4111740 The Guérande Peninsula is surrounded by water. It stretches out from the Atlantic Ocean (west) to the Brière Regional Nature Reserve (east), and from the river Vilaine (north) to the Loire estuary (south).