Dolce di Cervia Coarse Italian Sea Salt

Limited edition - collector's item! Super limited - salt pans are closed indefinitely due to flooding, and we happen to have snagged some of this fantastic Italian sea salt just in time.  Dolce di Cervia is a coarse Italian sea salt, ground to a jumble of crystals and shards of all sizes. It has a faint harshness on the tongue that's accompanied by mild, mineral-sweet undertones. This salt's color hints at the warmth to come. Amber light flickers through the crystals of this sweet salt as if forever illuminated by the flames of a cozy hearth fire. But the salt's flavors come through with another sort of warmth altogether - more of a midsummer rain felt through a linen shirt than a cup of hot cocoa between chilled palms. Italians call salt from the region of Cervia sale dolce, or sweet salt. The salt makers credit this unique fruity-sweet flavor to lower than normal magnesium and potassium levels - even though the sweetness is often a distinctive characteristic of some of the uber-magne