Flower of Salt
A Mother’s Day reflection on the pandemic’s toll on women.
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7 min readMay 7, 2021
A friend of mine recently returned from quarantining in France and brought me a present — a small jar of fleur de sel.
Fleur de sel, directly translated into English as “flower of salt,” is a rare and expensive form of sea salt hand-harvested mainly in Brittany, along the northern Atlantic coast of France.
