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

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Notre-Dame la Blanche Church. Listed building in 1910. Built in Gothic style in the 14th century under Jean de Montfort, is the oldest building in the medieval city. 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. Every Friday in July and August, the Saint-Aubin collegiate church hosts the La Voix des Orgues music festival with various concerts.

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. Cooking with sea 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).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. 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! Salt forms part of many religious ceremonies and is a sign of hospitality when it is placed on the table.

Salt and fleur de sel are formed by wind and sun, however, fleur de sel is a little more capricious. 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. 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.

Salt, also called gray salt or more colloquially coarse salt, does not have the same uses as "fleur de sel" salt or even the same harvesting method. 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. For cooking, Guérande salt is the most appreciated by cooks and great chefs in France and abroad. It can be used with a wide variety of dishes and preparations.