CRISTAL SALT

In Sicily, between Trapani and Marsala, within an environmental oasis protected by the WWF are the ancient salt mines wich were already in use two millenniums ago. In this wonderful context high quality salt is still collected BY HAND. It embraces the food's flavours, exalting them and accompanying them ia a way that only a top quality food can do. A saline is made un of the succession of different tanks where the sea water becomes salter and saltier due to an increase in salt concentration. In the last tank the salt contained in the highly saturated water falls to the bottom of the sea. Once the tank is empted from the remaining water, the salt crust is split manually as it used to be thounsand of years ago. The salt, racked and stacked in piles, is then left to dry in the warm sun of Sicily. No mechanical means are used at any stage on this process, everything is carried out in the silence of a protected nature which is not only respected but also guaranteed and strongly defended. In return of such love and respect, nature gives us a wonderful salt, whose taste makes you forget the effort required to collect it.