French coarse sea salt from Guerande Le Guerandais-gros sel de Guerande - 1000 gr

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Table salt must include these two characteristics to excite the flavours of food on the tongue. Taste comes via the taste buds, but if you eat a salt which does not melt, or is hard, it won’t have a taste effect. TRADYSEL fine salt is suitable for this use. Former, the town of Guérande has experienced a dwelling since prehistoric times, and the one that today is called the Guérande peninsula alone has nearly half of megalithic monuments remaining in the department. But we must wait until antiquity for the city to exist as such, including the presence of several farms. The activity of salt marshes, but also viticultural, began during the Middle Ages, in the fourteenth century, and made the city famous over the centuries. Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022. Human organisms can ONLY absorb Bio-available minerals, meaning minerals which have been FIRST digested by a plant or animal (Prof Maurice Jaubert). The minerals and trace-elements in the Celtic sea salt are Bio-available which means they can be ABSORBED by the body.

We've come a long way. Considering using explosives for an organic label, that's not what you dream about," Christophe Annaheim pointed out. Based in Guérande, Mr. Annaheim is a salt worker who chairs the Association Française des Producteurs de Sel Marin de l’Atlantique (French Association of Atlantic Sea Salt Producers), comprised of nearly 600 skilled workers. He anticipates the proposal's final version, due by the end of 2022, with a heavy heart. "We must remain vigilant because each state will want to amend the text before the European Parliament votes." 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. Occurs in early August each year. This festival crosses multiple origins and styles of dance music, traditional singing tales, from the most authentic blend of culture forms.

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If it does reach the bottom, it continues to crystallise, in a similar way to a coarse salt, in hard cubes, but in an organised way and not in clumps. It is a coarse salt crystallised around a flower of salt embryo. This product, however, does not correspond to the definition of flower of salt!

History is an eternal cycle. In Guérande (Loire-Atlantique), salt producers are long-accustomed to fighting to defend their craftsmanship. After thwarting a bypass project in the early 1970s that threatened many of the salt marshes, more than 200 salt workers joined together in 1988 to form a co-operative aiming to make Guérande salt the leading salt in France. Obtaining an "organic" label for Atlantic sea salt (Guérande peninsula, the islands of Noirmoutier and Ré) is in their sights, but competition in Europe is fierce and the ongoing lobbying is intensifying. 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. The market of Guérande is held every Wednesday and Saturday morning inside the ramparts. A fish market is also organized every day except Mondays and Thursdays. 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.At the end of the Breton War of Succession, peace was finally concluded before the high altar of Saint Aubin, ( Albinus of Angers) on Holy Saturday in 1365. In this the first Treaty of Guérande, Joanna of Penthièvre abdicated her disputed claims to the Dukedom in favour of John V of the House of Montfort. A modified form of Salic law was introduced in Brittany as a result. Salt and fleur de sel are formed by wind and sun, however, fleur de sel is a little more capricious. At a certain point in the year the conditions become just right for the salt to crystallise on the surface of these lagoons, rather than at the bottom. This is the time that the skilful "Plaudiers" carefully gather up these delicate salt crystals. This is the origin of the precious Fleur de Sel. When a salt crystallises over a long period of time, it becomes hard and pure. When the crystallisation is recent, the grain is crumbly, porous and moist. The other elements contained in the moisture are trapped when it dries. The salterns of Guérande are a swamp of salt water about 1 700 hectares in size. The current saltmarshes began before the 9th century and lasted for several centuries. Around the year 1500, the marshes reached 80% of the current surface. The latest were built around 1800. In the middle of the 19th century, a gradual decline started for different reasons: competition from a salt mine, lower consumption of salt as a product of conservation and improvement of transport by land.

A cooking salt can be dissolved for cooking food, vegetables, fish, pasta or rice; for this we use coarse salt or grey sea salt. To obtain a heterogeneous salting in small drops of water or grains which melt on your tongue, this salt must readily melt, which is the case with TRADYSEL coarse salt. The pond of Mès, a smaller area, to Mesquer. It is the pond salicole most well known in northern Europe. Salomon ("Selyfan", "Salaun", "Tudwal Mwyn Fawr", "3rd King of Brittany", "857–874",) built a canon college that was a benefit to the city's development. At the turn of the second millennium, a fortified town was built and a political and administrative organization could be established thanks to the existing castle. The Bretons of the prince of "Vannes" ( Waroch II (577–594)) may have built the first parish. Waroch is supposed to have created a baptistery in place of the actual choir of the collegiate church "Saint-Aubin".Charming medieval city, Guérande takes place in the heart of the Pays de la Loire, in the department of Loire-Atlantique. Surrounded by salt marshes that have made its reputation, the town is located about fifteen kilometers from Saint-Nazaire, not far from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Fortified manor house registered in the Historic Monuments, the castle of Careil dates from the end of the fourteenth century. It presents a Renaissance Breton style and still unveils today medieval elements like loopholes or paths of round. In the salt marshes, the salt’s composition varies with the brine’s composition. The mother waters, in the dead end where the salt crystallises, change over the season, as the concentration of different cations increases up to saturation. At the end of good seasons, magnesium can be crystallised for example. 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.