There, on Page 108 of the cookbook, renowned American chef Jonathan Waxman shows how to stuff a whole striped bass with blood oranges and fresh tarragon and bake it in a salt crust.
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In dry conditions these solutes rise to the surface to form a hard salt crust, impeding all plant growth, though hardy grass species such as " Vulpia myuros " can later colonise it.
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When meat, fowl or fish is trapped inside a salt crust, it bastes itself with its own juices and, protected by the salt barrier from direct contact with intense heat, the flesh becomes velvety.
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I'm always surprised when a house specialty is less than terrific, and that's the case with the night's prime rib _ gray and tasteless, as if that salt crust sucked the life out of it.
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Bob Carr, the premier of New South Wales, took us to one of his favorites, Lucio's, an artists'hangout where Lucio Galletto, who comes from La Spezia, near Genoa, served us a whole fish beautifully roasted in a salt crust.
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Featured are Marinated Olives, Shaved Artichoke With Fava Beans and Parmesan, Shaved Raw Mushrooms, Endive and Parmesan and Asparagus Carpaccio along with Skillet-Roasted Mussels, Cioppino, Roasted Fish in a Salt Crust, Stuffed Focaccia, and Goat Cheese and Roasted Pepper Pizza.
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If you covered only the part of the Earth that is land, the salt crust would be a whopping 400 feet thick; that's nearly the height of Boston's Customs House tower and more than half as tall as the John Hancock building!
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The plants are halophytes and grow at the shores of very saline flat lagoons and inland saltpans, often on thick salt crusts, together with few other halophytes, tolerating extreme salinity during the dry season . " Microcnemum coralloides " is a rare species.
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The only living organisms in Lake Hillier are microorganisms including " Dunaliella salina ", which causes the salt content in the lake to create a red dye which helps produce the colour, as well as red halophilic bacteria present in the salt crusts.
