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James Beard Cookbook Award Winner. IACP Cookbook Award Finalist in two categories.
In Salted, Bitterman traces the minerals history, from humankinds first salty bite to its use in modern industry to the resurgent interest in artisan salts. Featuring more than 50 recipes that showcase this versatile and marvelous ingredient, Salted also includes a field guide to artisan salts profiling 80 varieties and exploring their dazzling characters, unique stories, production methods, and uses in cooking; plus a quick-reference guide covering over 150 salts.
Salting is one of the more ingrained habits in cooking, and according to Bitterman, all habits need to be questioned. He challenges you to think creatively about salting, promising that by understanding and mastering the principles behind itand becoming familiar with the primary types of artisanal salts availableyou will be better equipped to get the best results for your individual cooking style and personal taste. Whether hes detailing the glistening staccato crunch of fleur de sel harvested from millennia-old Celtic saltmaking settlements in France or the brooding sizzle of forgotten rock salts transported by the Tauregs across the Sahara, Bittermans mission is to encourage us to explore the dazzling world of salt beyond the iodized curtain.
Mark Bitterman is a man truly possessed by salt. As selmelier at The Meadow, the internationally recognized artisan-product boutique, Bitterman explains the promise and allure of salt to thousands of visitors from across the country who flock to his showstopping collection. Salt can be a revelation, he urges, no food is more potent, more nutritionally essential, more universal, or more ancient. No other food displays salts crystalline beauty, is as varied, or as storied.
Winner 2011James Beard Cookbook Award Reference & Scholarship Category
