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Article: Sprinkle, sprinkle, little star: whether you're jazzing up seafood, cha-chaing a chicken, or adding new zip to desserts, flavored sea salts will shake your world.(great food)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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NO INGREDIENT IS MORE SALT of the earth than plain old salt. But add a pinch of this and that and you elevate the humble mineral, bringing out hidden flavors in food and transforming even the simplest dish into something extraordinary. Seasoned salts combine the briny taste of the ocean with pungent assortments of fresh herbs, citrus, tea, seaweed, peppercorns, vanilla beans....
A mixture of sea salt (the most rarefied form of this basic ingredient), lavender, basil, thyme, rosemary, and grated lemon rind turns a plain steak into a dish straight out of a Provencal country kitchen. And while most people don't seek out salt in their desserts, when it's infused with ...