Artisanal Scented Fragrant Smoked Salt with Aromatic Berries

✓ Crafted by Chef Philippe Bellan in Tarare, France
✓ Made with quality ingredients: no preservatives or artificial colors
✓ Environmentally friendly
✓ 100% artisanal

Ingredients
Salt pearls from Lake Assal (Djibouti), Malam berry (Zantoxylum fagara), kororima seed (Aframomum cororrima), organic orange peels.

A bit of history
Smoking salt is a very old method common to food preservation.
We have recently learned, thanks to archaeologists, about Viking salt, a salt flavored with spices and slowly smoked over a wood fire.
These formidable navigators brought spices from other continents aboard their Drakkars long before Vasco de Gama, a Portuguese navigator, discovered the Indies in the 15th century.
On the northwest coast of the Pacific, the Salish Indians, a Native American people established long before the arrival of the English on the North American continent, practiced smoking salt in the same way as the food they wished to preserve.
Nowadays, preservation methods have greatly evolved.

What's in my smoked salt with fragrant berries?
I I called it Afar salt in reference to the Afar people, inhabitants of the Horn of Africa for thousands of years. They were nomadic harvesters of this salt for a long time.
The salt pearls come from a lake known to be the saltiest in the world. 
A liter of water from this lake, the lowest on the African continent, -150 m below sea level, contains 10 times more minerals than sea salt.
It is located in the Afar Depression in Djibouti, sandwiched between Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia.
Salt pearls of different sizes from a few millimeters to several centimeters are formed on the edge of the lake by the currents and then the waves under the effect of strong evaporation.
The Afar, multi-millennial inhabitants of the Horn of Africa, have long been nomadic harvesters of this salt.
A long and gentle smoking with beech wood colors the flavored salt pearls brown.
The lemony Malam berry from Cameroon, the fruit of a shrub of the Zantoxylum family like the Sishuan berry, is associated with the seeds of kororima also called "false cardamom of Gabon".
These fruits are roasted, pounded and smoked with the salt pearls and orange zest.

How do I use my smoked and flavored salt?
This unique salt enhances all foods, such as grilled meats or soft cheeses. Its uses don't stop there, and salting your food with this special spice depends on your interest in smoky flavor.
Sprinkle it over all kinds of raw vegetables or a few salad leaves to enjoy these small, crunchy, fine pearls as a substitute for flavorless refined salt.
Make an amazing salted butter to accompany smoked fish or cold meats. Add my smoked salt to softened butter and mix vigorously.

Why choose our artisanal spice blend?
Spices are part of my expertise, acquired over the course of my professional experience.
I've created my own blends to share them with as many people as possible.
The manufacturing methods and the balance of blending quality, organic ingredients are what make them unique and distinctive.
Discover my recipes, created in my workshop, with the first purchase of a sample.
Get started with simple recipes with a few tips in their descriptions.
Vary your menus and enjoy cooking for the whole family or your guests.

Packaging
Glass jar with mechanical closure and 4-panel cardboard label attached with a linen string
Kraft bag with zip closure labeled with a QR code to access the product on the online store.
Sample presented in glass jar with mechanical closure.