The original, bestselling book that focuses on salt block cooking, with seventy recipes designed for using this unique cooking tool. A precious mineral mined from ancient hills deep in Asia has stormed the American cooking scene. With hues ranging from rose to garnet to ice, Himalayan salt blocks offer a vessel for preparing food as stunningly visual as it is staggeringly delicious. Guided only by a hunger for flavor and an obsession with the awesome power of salt, award-winning author Mark Bitterman pioneers uncharted culinary terrain with Salt Block Cooking, which provides simple, modern recipes that illustrate salt block grilling, baking, serving, and more. Everyone who loves the excitement and pleasure of discovering new cooking techniques will enjoy this guide to cooking and entertaining with salt blocks. The introduction is your salt block owner’s manual, with everything you need to know to purchase, use, and maintain salt blocks with confidence. The chapters that follow divide seventy recipes into six techniques: serving, warming, curing, cooking, chilling, and of course, drinking. You’ll find recipes ranging from a minty watermelon and feta salad to salt-tinged walnut scones, beef fajitas served tableside, salt-cured candied strawberries, and salt-frozen Parmesan ice cream! This book is the definitive text on Himalayan salt blocks, written by the man wrote the definitive text on salt. Enough with salting your food—now it’s time to food your salt!

Over seventy recipes for grilling traditional & nontraditional dishes on a Himalayan salt block from the bestselling author of Salt Block Cooking. Mark Bitterman is the foremost salt block cooking expert and one of the largest importers and distributors of Himalayan salt blocks. Everyone who loves grilling will find this guide from the author of Salt Block Cooking indispensable to such an innovative, powerful form of outdoor cooking. Salt blocks, made of a precious pink mineral mined from the ancient hills of Pakistan’s Punjab province, are available at specialty retail stores around the world, promising new adventures in searing, roasting, and baking on a grill. The introduction is your salt block owner’s manual, with everything you need to know to purchase, use, and maintain salt blocks with confidence. The six chapters that follow are divided into more than seventy recipes organized by key ingredient: Meat, Poultry, Seafood, Vegetables and Fruit, Dairy, and Dough. You’ll find recipes for Bacon Browned Pork Belly Burgers; Lamb Satay with Mint Chutney and Spicy Peanut Crumble; Salt-Seared Tuna Niçoise; Hot Salted Edamame with Sesame, Shiso, and Sichaun Pepper; and Salty-Smoky Walnut-Chocolate-Chunk Cookies.

A James Beard Award–winning field guide to artisan salts, with profiles of 80 varieties and 50 recipes that showcase the versatile ingredient. In Salted, Bitterman traces the mineral’s history, from humankind’s 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 it—and becoming familiar with the primary types of artisanal salts available—you will be better equipped to get the best results for your individual cooking style and personal taste. Whether he’s 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, Bitterman’s 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 salt’s crystalline beauty, is as varied, or as storied.” Winner – 2011 James Beard Cookbook Award – Reference & Scholarship Category IACP Cookbook Award Finalist in two categories

The James Beard Award-winning author of Salted presents more than sixty recipes showcasing a range of natural, healthful, hand-crafted salts. Today, our planet is home to hundreds of craft salts, each reflecting its own native ecology and culinary traditions. In terms of flavor, nutrition, and sustainability, these salts are a world apart from your typical iodized, kosher, or even industrially manufactured sea salt. Now salt expert Mark Bitterman offers a master class in craft salt—from rock salt and fleur de sel to the many smoked and infused varieties—in this unique and enlightening cookbook. Mark introduces the different varieties of craft salt with convenient charts that make it easy to find the right salt for the right food. The recipes cover everything from Meat, Poultry, and Seafood to Sweets, Cocktails, and more. You’ll enjoy mouthwatering dishes like Colorado Beef Burgers with Mesquite Smoked Salt; Truffle Salt Smashed Roasted Potatoes; and Salted Latte Ice Cream with Lemon Espresso Drizzle. Plus, Mark’s the tips, techniques, and suggestions will help you elevate your own favorite dishes with the magic of craft salt.

A GORGEOUS, FULL-COLOR GUIDE TO CRAFTING UPSCALE AND CREATIVE MEALS WITH THE WILDLY POPULAR HIMALAYAN SALT BLOCK Revealing the tasty dishes you can make with your Himalayan salt block, this book details how to get the most out of this hot, new chef ’s tool. With The Simple Art of Salt Block Cooking, you will become the master of savory and inspire guests with professional techniques and mouthwatering recipes. •CURE Block Cured Salmon •BAKE Garlicky Soft Flatbread •SEAR Rib-Eye Steak •SEASON Scallop and Shrimp Ceviche •ROAST Salt Roasted Radishes •SERVE Charcuterie Plate Including tips on how to prep, care, and cook with the Himalayan salt block, this book serves up flavorful and eye-catching appetizers, vegetables, meats, seafood and even desserts.

Guaranteed to answer all your questions, this book is the definitive guide to Himalayan salt and Himalayan salt lamps. Written in an easy to read and understandable style and packed with useful, important, and powerful information, it will show you how to unlock the potential and harness the power of Himalayan salt.

Compelling and vivid, the stories in Bread and Salt use the metaphor of salvage to consider the reclamation of the natural environment, human relationships, and material objects. The characters in these stories live and travel in Tunisia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Turkey, France, and the United States and consider their individual agency in both local and global contexts. The characters' conflicts reveal how family and friendships are enriched by differences.