“Celtic sea salt” is a term coined by an American company to market gray sea salt from France. French gray salt, is a solar evaporated salt made just south of Brittany on the west cost of France. It is made by allowing salt crystals to form in the pans where seawater is evaporated. The crystals precipitate to the bottom of the pan where they are raked off to a pile on the side. Most Americans use an interesting term for French gray salt: Sel Gris. What I like about the term “Sel Gris” (which I use freely when I am on this side of the Atlantic, following the same set of values that beget the pronunciation of “croissant” as cresant, rather than the overly passionate French pronunciation, ckRRRAAWWsaunt) or Celtic salt, for that matter, is that nobody except we Americans call it that. The French actually call it “gros sel,” which translates as coarse salt. You can find some of the Gray Salts we carry at The Meadow here: http://www.atthemeadow.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_85 . The French “Sel Gris” are all excellent representations of the classic French gros sel.

It’s very informative and I’m surprised with the wide range of variety of salts available from the different places on earth.

The bottles in the picture… are they collections of these different salts you’ve mentioned? Quite an amazing collection there!