Archive for December, 2008

Travel the World Through a Salt’s Crystal

Ever wonder what the world tastes like?  Finally you can find out for yourself.  With our collection of salts stretching close to 90, we have distilled the list down to 50 or so of the most distinctive salts and offered it as a giant collector’s gourmet salt set: The World Tour.The Meadow’s new and improved World Tour Salt Set

The set includes a guaranteed 50 artisan salts selected from a master list of the salt that best exemplify the cultural, culinary, creative, artisanal, geographic, oceanographic, and economic character of their origins.  If you look hard enough you can literally explore the world through each crystal of salt.

Alaea Volcanic (coarse) Hawaiian sea salt; Aguni Koshin Odo Japanese sea salt; Amabito No Moshio Japanaese seaweed salt; Andes Mountain Rose (coarse) Bolivian rock salt; Atlantic Mesquite Smoked Maine sea salt; Bali Reef Fleur de Sel Balinese sea salt; Bali Kechil Pyramid Balinese sea salt; Bali Taksu Pyramid Balinese sea salt; Bamboo Leaf Hawaiian sea salt; Barrique Chardonnay French sea salt; Bengal Blue Bangladesh sea salt; Black Truffle infused sea salt; and Cyprus Silver Mediterranean sea salt.

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Himalayan Salt Blocks

Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto  generally has to satisfy his penchant for preparing and serving his zany, mouthwatering foods on Himalayan salt blocks with the more modest 8 inch by 8 inch by 1.5 inch slabs of pink rock salt.  These are fine, most of the time.  But, with back muscles aching and biceps tingling, I am elated to announce that we have just finished unpacking a full container of the most unusual new and renewed sizes of Himalayan salt plates, salt platters, salt bricks, and salt cubes.

Extra Large 8 x 16 x 2 inch Himalayan Pink Rock Salt Platter

My favorite by far this time around has to be the imperial super mondo extra big and fancy and fun Himalayan salt platters (it’s tempting to call them Himalayan salt boards, or salt planks, or salt joists…), which measure a solid 8 inches by 16 inches in size, with a thickness of 2 full inches.  They are begging to party.  Some ideas that come to mind:

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