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Salt — Gourmet Status

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Mobile Foodie Survival Kit - with Rosemary

(Totally cool — and the people employed to assemble it? Guaranteed feel-good!)

Pocket-size set of organic seasonings essential for any foodie on the go, including 13 flavorful, USDA Organic herbs and spices.

Organic: basil, cayenne, curry, dill, granulated garlic, ginger, cinnamon, oregano, thyme, granulated onion, sea salt, black pepper, rosemary.
Price: $26.00
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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!

"Salt, That Essential Flavor," Los Angeles Times — April 6, 2005

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



A exotic specialty salt requires its own "keeper."
Sur La Table offers a handsome addition to your kitchen.
Berard Olivewood Salt Keeper — Keeps up to 8 oz. of cooking salt within close reach beautifully. Carved from olivewood, each keeper has a unique grain pattern. Features magnetic swivel lid that allows for one-handed access.


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)

For an illuminating selection of gourmet food salts, visit:

Salt Traders
The Spice House
SaltWorks
Salts Of The World

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