美食界新潮流：賣你一瓶海水自己在家曬鹽吃？還不便宜
Time to up your salt game. You can now harvest artisanal sea salt right on your countertop.
是時候提升你的“鹽藝”了。你現在可以在自家料理臺上收穫手工海鹽了。
Gourmet salts are having a moment. Sure, on one hand, table salt is just sodium chloride, and don’t let anyone tell you differently. On the other, the crystalized, colorful finishing salts used by gourmet restaurants will often contain surprising flavors resulting from unique, localized minerals from where they were sourced.
美食家級別的鹽現在迎來了風口。當然，在一方面，食鹽只是氯化鈉，這毫無疑問。而另一方面，美食餐館裏用的結晶彩色鹽通常由於其產地獨特的局部礦物質而風味驚豔。
Much like wine, these salts capture terroir—which is why the $1 billion gourmet salt market is seeing moderate but steady growth, projected to reach $1.5 billion by 2023.
和酒很像，這些鹽有着獨特的地方風味，這也是10億美元的美食鹽市場小幅而穩定增長的原因。到2023年，預計市值將達到15億美元。
Now, you can bring rare salt production home. SAL⊥, created by Boir Studio, is a personal, gourmet salt making kit.
現在，你可以在家裏生產罕見的鹽了。Boir工作室出品的SALT是私人美食鹽製作套裝。
The system is a beautiful heirloom unto itself. It’s a ceramic tray, wrapped in one of two finishes of hand-carved oak or walnut. Boir includes a small bottle of concentrated salt water from the Mediterranean.
這一整套東西本身就漂亮到可以做傳家寶。一個陶瓷托盤嵌在橡木或胡桃木製成的手工雕刻木板中，這樣的木板共有兩塊。套裝還附贈一小瓶地中海產的濃縮鹽水。You pour in a very thin layer of water, set the tray in the sun or oven, and the crystals will form all on their own. (In the oven, the process is downright quick: It takes just 25 minutes.)
在托盤中倒上薄薄一層鹽水，然後將其置於陽光下或烤箱中，晶體就會自動形成。（製鹽的過程在烤箱中特別快：僅需約25分鐘。）
“Inspiration for this kit came to my husband, Ivan, when he noticed the small pools of seawater trapped in the rocks at the beach,” says Boir cofounder Vlatka Leskovar. “He saw the water evaporate, leaving little nuggets of natural salt.”
Boir工作室的合夥創始人Vlatka Leskovar說，“我丈夫注意到沙灘上的岩礁會圍住小灘海水，那時他靈光乍現。他看到那些海水蒸發，留下小塊的天然海鹽。”
SAL⊥ is available now for $107. Additional sea water is sold in four packs for $29. And if that sounds expensive, well, you clearly haven’t dipped your toe very deeply into the world of gourmet salt.
SALT目前的售價是107美元。（約合人民幣747.6元）四瓶裝的海水補充裝售價29美元。（約合人民幣202.6元）如果你覺得貴，那你顯然還沒有深入美食鹽界。
翻譯：李然
