Extra-thin, crunchy artisan crackers made with stone-ground wheat flour, olive oil and grey sea salt from Guérande. No additives, no colourings, no palm oil. Vegan. 100 g.
Who Lady Joseph was
Josephine Bernaud was French, from Bordeaux, and she settled in the Rioja town of Haro. In 1926 she opened a tea room there and baked biscuits and crackers for the passengers travelling the Haro–Bordeaux railway line — the food reminded her of her own childhood. Her friends called her Lady Joseph. The bakery in Haro is now in its third generation and still working from her recipes, still grinding the wheat on traditional stone wheels, still shaping the crackers by hand.
Why Guérande salt is grey
Guérande sits on a peninsula on the Atlantic coast of Brittany, where salt has been harvested from clay-lined evaporation pans since the ninth century. The salt is raked out by hand — the paléurs still do it with wooden tools — and it is never washed or refined.
That is where the colour comes from: fine grey clay from the pan floor, carried up with the crystals, along with the magnesium and calcium salts that refining strips out of white table salt. It is the same reason it tastes rounder and less harshly saline. Grey salt is unrefined salt — the colour is the evidence, not a decoration.
Contains wheat — not gluten-free
These crackers are made from wheat flour. You will sometimes see "gluten free" attached to them among a block of stray keyword text; it is simply wrong. Nothing in the Lady Joseph cracker range is gluten-free. If you are coeliac, please do not buy these.
One more thing, about shipping
The manufacturer's own trade text for these crackers ends with a long tail of unrelated keywords and a promise of free shipping to seven countries. That describes their shipping, not ours, so it does not appear here. Shipping from Só Verde is whatever our own checkout tells you at the time you order.
Lady Joseph
LA SABLESIENNE
Go Pure
Go Pure
