Fleur de sel (`flower of salt` in French; flœʁ də sɛl), flôr de sal (in Portuguese), or flor de sal (in Spanish and Catalan) is a hand-harvested sea salt collected by workers who scrape only the top layer of salt before it sinks to the bottom of large salt pans. Traditional French fleur de sel is collected off the coast of Brittany, most no..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleur_de_sel