Spice Mix for Tzatziki with a Wooden Spoon 40gr

€1,99

There is no more ideal -small- gift than a package containing the most fragrant and tasty mixtures for you and your loved ones. Comes with a spoon with the inscription "Greece" to remind you, wherever you are, of this beautiful Mediterranean country!

The spice mix for Tzatziki contains spice mix 98% (curry, thyme, oregano, turmeric, basil) and salt 2%.

On the back of the package you will also find a recipe that, if you follow it, will surprise you with the result!

HISTORY "FROM GOLD" BEHIND THE PRODUCT

Salt, which along with olive oil claims the title of "gold" of the earth, historically has its roots in its birth, almost synchronized with the birth of the human species. "YOU are the salt of the earth," Jesus said to his disciples . (Matthew 5:13). In Chinese papyrus, in 2700 BC. we find the first recipe for salt while in historical reports we learn that the Egyptians used it as a basic ingredient for embalming the dead. The Romans, in their exchange society, used it as a salary for the legionnaires, using the word sal they coined from an anagram of the word alas (<salt, salt). Thus came the English word "salary" and the word ("sales").

In the Greek area, in Messolonghi it has two salt pans near its lagoon, the largest known to the locals as the "White" salt pan and capable of producing 50-80% of the salt produced in Greece. The second is Mavri Aliki, with a total area of 12,500 acres and which took its name from a species of seabirds that existed there, the "turlids". The quality and purity of the salt that Messolonghi gives us is now recognized by the world's greatest connoisseurs!

Extractt from the movie ( ''A touch of spice'', Turkish: Bir tutam baharat), produced in 2003, directed and written by Tassos Boulmetis.

The grandfather used to say that the word "gastronomus" hides the word "astronomus". That's how I got my first astronomy lessons through spices "

GRANDFATHER: Now I will tell you and then you will think, and you will answer to me. Tamam? Pepper. It is hot and it burns.

GRANDSON: Sun.

GRANDFATHER: Sun. Correctly. In the middle is the sun. And what does the sun see?

GRANDSON: He sees everything.

GRANDFATHER: That's why pepper is everywhere. In all foods. Then Aphrodite.

GRANDFATHER: Cinnamon.

GRANDFATHER: Aphrodite was the most beautiful woman. That is why cinnamon is both bitter and sweet. Like all women. Then there is the earth. Here we are. And what on earth?

GRANDSON: There is life on earth.

GRANDFATHER: What does life need?

GRANDFATHER: To eat

GRANDFATHER: And what does the food want to be more tasty?

GRANDFATHER: Salt.

GRANDFATHER: And our life needs salt to be tasty.

GRANDSON: But the salt is not visible.

GRANDFATHER: Does it bother you if you can see it, when your food is delicious? It does not come to you. That's the important. The salt. Food and life need salt.