Garum from Lusitania
Our traditionally hand harvested sea salt is a
totally natural unprocessed product. It is produced from our salinas (salt
pans) using age-old methods – methods put to practice by the Romans some
2000 years ago.
In ancient Rome, garum ibericum, a salty
paste, was manufactured with a brew of salt, fish and herbs and used througout
the Roman Empire as a sauce to season all kinds of dishes.
Just a few miles
distance from Necton’s facilities, you can visit at Quinta do Marim
the well-preserved ruins of one of those Roman garum producing sites.
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Beautiful roman mosaics at the
luxurious Villa of Milreu - just 15 km distance from Necton |
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The Portuguese Atlantic coast has been renowned for
its highest quality sea salt for quite a while.
But ignoring its importance for Nature and for the
communities of the sea-side, during the last century the majority of the
traditional salt fields was converted into huge evaporation ponds for
industrial salt production.
In short time we almost lost a centuries-old
tradition, changing the pure and rich sea salt our ancestors fed their
children, for a new salt (that whilst extracted from the sea) lacks the
majority of natural trace elements found in sea water. |
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