Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Gros Sel de Guérande: the pure pelagic essence

Great food takes great ingredients. You can't expect to build a splendid palace using dung-bricks, can you?

Gros Sel de Guérande, is unrefined hand-raked sea salt from Brittany.Nothing added, nothing removed, it is pure essence of the ocean and all the extra minerals give my cooking that extra edge.

Hand-raked, by the way, does not mean that hapless Breton peasants rake it with their bare hands. In fact, it is women with their light touch, who are trusted to scratch off the upper layer of
crystallised salt with rakes.

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