Azalai Tuareg Salt

DESCRIPTION TUAREG SALT FROM AZALAÏ Origin: Mali Net volumes and weights: 50ml / 62g / 2.18oz Table salt Azalaï salt is extracted from the mines of Taoudeni, in the heart of the Mali desert 800 kilometers north of Timbuktu. Result of the evaporation of the seas that covered this part of the continent African 250 million years ago this salt of a quality exceptional has always been preserved from the slightest pollution. Its transport to Timbuktu is provided by timeless caravans of dromedaries seeming to emerge from the mists of time. conducted by the Tuareg caravanners, undisputed masters of these regions sorry, these slow-moving cohorts have inherited the name Azalai. Until the middle of the last century, the Azalaï only took place twice times a year and brought together tens of thousands of animals. "Modern" caravans have split up and can count from 15 to 300 camels. It takes them 20 days of walking to bring the precious salt bars from Taoudéni to the shores of the niger river. An exhausting journey, punctuated by too few rests around some drinking water wells. The beasts, tied head to tail, each carry, hanging along their side, four bars of salt weighing, in total, nearly 120 kilos. It has always been so. It will be like this for a long time yet. Azalaï salt is, according to the nomads of the Sahel, the best that of the world. Great flavor food salt, it is also used by desert peoples as medicine, beneficial for the respiratory system. It is one of the rare rock salts containing iodine (3.5 mg/kg). It is composed of 98.6% chloride of sodium; but it is also rich in calcium (0.38 g/100g), magnesium (0.005 g/100g) and copper (0.500 mg/kg). In Taoudeni, some 600 miners work 6 months a year to earn enough to support their families back in the village. armed with some rudimentary tools they dig up to 5 meters deep depth to expose rock salt veins. At level inferior, the white salt is pure, the first quality, that which we offer you. A precious commodity that they must release skilfully by plate of one meter long and about ten meters thicker than a skilful blow of a chisel separating it in two. He ... not all that remains is to cut them to transport dimensions and store, marked with the signature of the minor owner in waiting for the caravans of merchants. USAGE TIPS This salt is very pure, iodized with frank salinity. It will be used ideally with white meats, poultry, fish, vegetable dishes, pasta and rice. RECEIPTS * Homemade buns with poppy seeds and sesame [https://www.compagniedespoivres.com/blogs/recettes/pain-buns-maison-aux-graines-de-pavot-et-sesame]