The term is also found in “fleur de l’âge” (in the prime of life), defined by the Larousse dictionary as: “the freshness and spontaneity of one’s beginnings”. A real flower is transient and fragile, which gives its beauty.

The Celtics of Guérande take place in August. It is an opportunity to attend concerts, old games, fest-noz or traditional re-enactments. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the city was transformed, with bourgeois houses in granite replacing the houses of the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1686, at the Saint-Aubin public place, a new building was built called Les Halles; which was notable for its large auditorium. These mansions and houses represent about 50% of the buildings still visible today in the sector called the intra muros. 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. La bouderie en amour est comme le sel ; il n’en faut pas trop (Proverbe Sanskrit) (Sulking in love is like salt; you don’t need too much of it: Sanskrit proverb).

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. 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. Sel de Guérande” and “Fleur de Sel de Guérande” have been specially protected by the European PGI (protected geographical indication) label since 2012, which guarantees the origin and quality of salts from Guérande. Accordingly, the salt farmers of the “Les Salines de Guérande” co-operative produce unwashed, additive-free, regional sea salt by hand and under strict controls. Guerande Fleur de Sel (Flower of the Salt) - this rare white French salt is the finest grade of guerande salt and it is rich in minerals.Fleur de sel is naturally white and isn't crushed or washed so keeping its incomparable flavour. Not to be confused with thegrey Gros Sel Guerandewhich we also sell.

the Namnetes, further South, whose frontier was the Loire river. As a seaboard people, their fortunes increased as they sided with Rome. that which forms on the surface of a liquid” is the definition given in most dictionaries, as opposed to that which falls within the liquid or to the bottom. Guérande salt also contains extreme halophile (salt-loving) micro-organisms (link to glossary), which contribute to its colour and aroma. The dunaliela salina is a micro algae which gives the characteristic pink colour to the mother waters, feeds artemias, which themselves give the rose colour to salmon and flamingos. 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. In tests this Celtic salt has been shown to contain approximately 70% sodium chloride, leaving approximately 30% to be other minerals etc. This type of salt contains all the natural minerals that occur in the sea. Nothing is removed. It is said by some that even the act of grinding the salt can cause the loss of certain gases from inside the crystals. (from - Seasalts Hidden Powers by Jaques De Langres)

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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. To salt cooking water properly, you have to taste it! Once the salt has completely dissolved (!), well salted hot cooking water should remind you of seawater - well salted cooking water often saves you adding salt later and really enhances the natural flavour, e.g., of pasta or vegetables! Storage and transformation methods for TRADYSEL flower of salt and grey sea salt enable the natural, nutritional qualities of the sea salt to be preserved. By Yan Gauchard (Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), correspondent) Published on June 15, 2022, at 4:00 am (Paris), updated on June 15, 2022, at 4:00 am Around 848, under the reign of Nominoe, 1st King of Brittany, the city became the head of a temporary bishopric.