Salt
The ocean on your table
For ages, the best salt in the world has been harvested from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. A kind of film forms on the surface of the water, the so-called fleur de sel. Each day, this thin layer is manually removed before it sinks to the bottom in a rather time-consuming process. For every 100 square metres (4,300 square yards) of water, only three kilos (six-and-a-half pounds) of salt are produced. When the water evaporates, the salt crystallizes. And so it has been done for thousands of years.
Then came refined salt, which reduces most of the minerals found in sea salt to levels that our body can barely absorb. As a result, excess salt remains in our bodies, and then attracts water and settles into our muscles and onto our bones – which can lead to health problems. The solution: back to unrefined salt.
That is the specialty of a company run by Rui Neves Dias in Tavira, on the southern coast of Portugal. “It’s actually very simple,” Neves Dias explains. “For salt you only need sea, sun and wind. There’s plenty of that here.” Every day the exposed layers of salt crystals are carefully removed from the surface of the sea, then dried in the sun before they’re packaged and sold under the brand name Flos Salis. The salt, which crumbles between your fingers and melts on your tongue, can be used as table salt or for salads, meat and fish.
Neves Dias’ aim to mine salt the traditional way is more than a nostalgic desire to hang on to tradition. Neves Dias wants to prove that it’s still possible to offer the authentic taste and color of sea salt. And he takes pride each time his salt passes with flying colors the annual tests of Nature & Progrès, the European mark for “exceptional quality and purity”. This proves Flos Salis is free of chemical substances like metal and nitrates.
Neves Dias’ family has been mining salt in the region for 120 years. He’s never wanted to do anything else. “This is my hobby,” he says. “It’s never been about work. To earn money, I’ve only done what I enjoy.”
Available in: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and the United States
URL: www.flor-de-sal.com
From Ode Magazine
The ocean on your table
For ages, the best salt in the world has been harvested from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. A kind of film forms on the surface of the water, the so-called fleur de sel. Each day, this thin layer is manually removed before it sinks to the bottom in a rather time-consuming process. For every 100 square metres (4,300 square yards) of water, only three kilos (six-and-a-half pounds) of salt are produced. When the water evaporates, the salt crystallizes. And so it has been done for thousands of years.
Then came refined salt, which reduces most of the minerals found in sea salt to levels that our body can barely absorb. As a result, excess salt remains in our bodies, and then attracts water and settles into our muscles and onto our bones – which can lead to health problems. The solution: back to unrefined salt.
That is the specialty of a company run by Rui Neves Dias in Tavira, on the southern coast of Portugal. “It’s actually very simple,” Neves Dias explains. “For salt you only need sea, sun and wind. There’s plenty of that here.” Every day the exposed layers of salt crystals are carefully removed from the surface of the sea, then dried in the sun before they’re packaged and sold under the brand name Flos Salis. The salt, which crumbles between your fingers and melts on your tongue, can be used as table salt or for salads, meat and fish.
Neves Dias’ aim to mine salt the traditional way is more than a nostalgic desire to hang on to tradition. Neves Dias wants to prove that it’s still possible to offer the authentic taste and color of sea salt. And he takes pride each time his salt passes with flying colors the annual tests of Nature & Progrès, the European mark for “exceptional quality and purity”. This proves Flos Salis is free of chemical substances like metal and nitrates.
Neves Dias’ family has been mining salt in the region for 120 years. He’s never wanted to do anything else. “This is my hobby,” he says. “It’s never been about work. To earn money, I’ve only done what I enjoy.”
Available in: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Sweden and the United States
URL: www.flor-de-sal.com
From Ode Magazine
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