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

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This village is situated in the heart of the salt marshes. Like Clis, there are many typical houses of salt workers. 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." Tanneguy Lehideux, Combats d'un Chouan: Terrien coeur de lion, colonel de Chouans, Chevalier de Saint-Louis or La Chouannerie in Upper Brittany and Anjou, La Crèche, Geste éditions, 2009, 443 p. (ISBN 978-2-84561-509-0, notice BnF no FRBNF41454424).

In the heart of this medieval city, the Saint-Aubin collegiate church has also been classified as a Historic Monument. Built partly in the 12th century, it was strongly redesigned in the 15th and 16th centuries. One can in particular admire there very beautiful stained-glass windows representing the history of Margaret of Antioch or even Saint Dominic receiving the rosary. The crystals obtained are completely different: small inversed pyramids, crumbly and transient for flower of salt, and clumps of harder cubes, depending on the time they spend in the water, for coarse salt. 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) Our flower of salt is harvested with the same tools that have been used for centuries and we use no additives. It therefore has nothing to compare with refined industrial salts which are harder and more aggressive. TRAD Y SEL Guérande salt is natural and rich in minerals (magnesium, calcium, potassium, trace elements), its taste is fine, without bitterness or spiciness. The Balzac novel Béatrix is set in Guérande, concerning Calyste, son of the Baron de Guenic, and his relations with characters based on George Sand, Franz Liszt, and Marie d'Agoult.In our case, flower of salt is crystallisation from a saturated saline solution, which occurs, like many changes in physical states, in the colder zones. For flower of salt, this happens on the surface where the air is colder than the sun-heated water, whereas for coarse salt, it is at the bottom where the clay is cool. To enable production in the salt marshes, it is necessary to have shallow crystallisation ponds, of small size to avoid ripples, which if there is wind, would cause the flower of salt to sink. According to the classification established by the INSEE in 1999, Guérande is now classified as an urban district, 1 out of 9 forming the urban area of Saint-Nazaire. Heritage [ edit ] Guerande map, vieille ville Medieval town [ edit ] Ramparts (15th–16th century) [ edit ] Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.

Fine salt also comes from gray salt, it is not a product that occurs naturally in salt marshes, it is coarse ground salt.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. The Celtics of Guérande take place in August. It is an opportunity to attend concerts, old games, fest-noz or traditional re-enactments.

According to local legends, a Viking band arrived in Guerande in 919 determined to pillage the city. The Guerandais apparently took refuge in the collegiate church praying to St Aubin who apparently sent a sign giving courage to the locals who took up arms and drove out the invaders. [4] Viking warriors landing at Guérande on the coast of Brittany in 919 A.D. French manuscript illumination on vellum, c1100, Life of Saint Aubin / Miracula Sancti Albini, Abby de Angers Middle Ages [ edit ] Eating Guérande salt rather than refined salt meets our need for seasoning food whilst preserving us from the harm of certain refined products, recognised as being potentially dangerous for health in he long term.Our Celtic salt carries a certification from Nature and Progress, a French organic and environmental standard, which ensures its purity, quality and sustainability. Our Guerande salt has carried this certification since 1989. 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 second Treaty of Guérande (1381) established Brittany's neutrality in the Anglo-French conflict, and was accorded between Duke John V of Brittany and King Charles VI of France. 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. Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.

The Guérande Peninsula overlooks two contrasting landscapes: the "Pays Blanc" (White Land), because of its salt marshes, and the "Pays Noir", with the Brière peat bog. The town's salt marshes have made it a renowned producer of salt, and it is the traditional source of fleur de sel, a type of garnishing salt. Whilst flower of salt cannot be produced by heating brine in an oven, after long periods of hot weather, when the clay bed is as hot as the water, our salt works produce a great deal, as the coarse salt no longer crystallises and the salt marshes are covered with flower of salt. Sea, sun, wind and craftsmanship come together to create this exceptional sea salt in a wetland long ago wrested by man from the Atlantic. Out of the clay soil came not only the salt marshes, glistening in the sun with their 7,000 crystallisation ponds, but all around them this ecologically unique, natural landscape with its very own protected flora and fauna. Between the headlands of Pen Bron and the coast of the quaint fishing village Le Croisic is a large reservoir that the supplies the ètiers, the channels of the salt marshes, with water in tandem with the tides. In the harvesting ponds known as oeilettes, the sun and wind cause the water to evaporate and the sea salt begins to crystallise on the bottom of the ponds. The salt farmer or paludier uses a kind of shovel known as a cimauge to drag the salt to the edges of the 10-40 cm-deep pond, where it is allowed to dry in direct sunlight for another day in special recesses. The bottoms of the oeilettes themselves must never be allowed to dry out completely, and therein lies the great art of the salt farmer: he works continually to regulate the water level perfectly and maintain a constant salt concentration in the channels and ponds – taking into account the weather, number of hours of sun and wind strength. Harvesting begins in June at the earliest and lasts until September, throughout the rest of the year the farmers are busy keeping the ponds clean and level. 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.

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!