A study of salt....Himalayan pink rock salt

Ciao, darlings, and are my little readers feeling better with that extra hour of sleep last night?! Ahh, La Diva does! I suppose one deserves a bit of a perk for the loss of an extra hour of daylight.

So this last week I continued my journey of discovering the gourmet salts of the world. La Diva's fave salt is Maldon, as it's just so light and flaky and easy to crush between your fingers over your food. I use it every day on everything and now was out.

So, La Diva hopped on her bike and headed up to the local gourmet market and was dismayed to see that the Maldon salt had gone up yet again to $12.50. When Diva started shopping at this store, Maldon was $7. That was three years ago.

Naturally, La Diva being a very, ahem, vocal gal, expressed my displeasure to the clerk. Since there was no way I was going to get out of paying double digits for salt in the store, she suggested I try something else that would give great flavor for the same price.

The salt was Himalayan pink salt from, the Himalayas of course! I must admit, the color and the packaging attracted La Diva also. The salt comes in a 7 oz. jar and is a pale peach-pink, looking like seven large rose quartz crystals. Oh, and it came with a nifty tiny grater. La Diva was sold.

Yeah, well, when I cooked next and went to grate the salt, it was not so cute. In fact, the salt was damn hard to grate, especially on the tiny grater! After attempting to get more than dust (for a lot of hard work) each time I wanted to season food, I gave up! La Diva spied her trusty, old-school mortar and pestle and grabbed it, tossed in a large crystal and crushed the salt into pink dust. Now, I could use it when I wanted without the tedious grating and managed to get a fair amount out of the salt rock.

Coming from an advertising/sales/marketing background, La Diva is always amazed at clever product packaging and quite often is suckered into buying something frivolous just because it's "cool" or "pretty." But, the salt was much more practical purchase thankfully!

Hmmmm....interesting! Chocolate covered caramel with Himalayan pink salt from Purdy's chocolates in Canada. Click on photo for more info!

So, how does the salt taste? Yep, the clerk was right, it is super salty. I liked it as a little would go a long way. However, even though I had crushed the salt to make it user-friendly, I still prefer the light, flaky crystals of Maldon! I'll use the Himalayan salt until it's gone. But by then, I'm sure I'll find from my next trip to the gourmet grocery the Maldon will be $13!! (But, it's fabulous, darling, and you deserve it, don't you? Of course you do!)

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