We Have Moved!

SaltWorks is excited to announce our expansion into a new state-of-the art salt facility! As of December 2011, we have officially moved to our brand new, 100,000 square foot gourmet facility located at 16240 Woodinville-Redmond Rd NE Woodinville, WA 98072. With increased storage capacity of up to 4 million pounds of salt, we are excited to be here. Please update your records, and feel free to visit our showroom weekdays from 8:00am – 4:30pm PST. As always, visit www.seasalt.com or call 1-800-353-7258 for the highest quality specialty salts and great customer service.

SaltWorks First-Ever Salt Sweepstakes

Just in time for fall, when we all spend more time in the kitchen, SaltWorks has delicious news for you! We’re excited to announce our first-ever SaltWorks Sweepstakes! You could win an exclusive SaltWorks prize box containing 22 jars (over $340.00 value) of our most popular salts! It’s easy to enter, Simply click here. Sweepstakes closes 10-28-2011, so enter today!

Prize includes full jars of: Mineral Essence™ Dead Sea Bath Salt Lavender Vanilla • Mineral Essence Dead Sea Bath Salt Tangerine Sage • Artisan Salt Co.® Durango® Hickory Smoked Sea Salt • Fusion® Spanish Rosemary Sea Salt • Fusion Habanero Sea Salt • Artisan Alaea Hawaiian Red Sea Salt (fine grain) • Artisan Bolivian Rose Sea Salt (coarse grain) • Bonfire Extra Bold Smoked Sea Salt • Artisan Yakima® Applewood Smoked Sea Salt • Artisan Cyprus Black Lava™ Sea Salt • Snowflake Pacific Northwest Sea Salt • Fusion Thai Ginger Sea Salt • Artisan Sel Gris Grey Sea Salt (coarse grain) • Fusion Black Truffle Sea Salt • Artisan Fleur de Sel French Sea Salt • Fusion Vintage Merlot Sea Salt • Artisan Himalayan Pink Salt (fine grain) • Artisan Cyprus Flake Sea Salt • Fusion Wild Porcini Sea Salt • Artisan Fumée de Sel™ Smoked Sea Salt • Artisan Murray River Pink Salt • Artisan Hiwa Kai™ Black Hawaiian Sea Salt

Bonfire Extra Bold Smoked Sea Salt

We here at SaltWorks are proud to announce the debut of Bonfire, our brand new Extra Bold Smoked Sea Salt! Already creating a buzz, we have been working for some time on smoking with the perfect wood combination to achieve a bold and delicious taste, and are happy to say we have found it. We can’t get enough of this delicious sea salt on or off the grill! Bonfire is naturally smoked for 14 days with a blend of 7 carefully chosen woods to create a uniquely hearty smokehouse flavor. Crafted with our own Northwest-harvested Snowflake sea salt and our proprietary real-wood smoking process, Bonfire is all natural, and deliciously rich. Bonfire will instantly transform your dishes with its deep, mouth-watering savory taste.

Our favorite discovery so far? This recipe for Bonfire Blue Cheese Burger! Tested and perfected on our own grills, this is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Especially with Dad’s Day approaching, this is the perfect burger to grill up at your next backyard BBQ. Mmm! Check out Bonfire online and purchase at SaltWorks. We can’t wait to hear what yummy recipes you discover with Bonfire!

Serves 6

INGREDIENTS

• 2 pounds ground beef

• 2-3 cloves garlic, minced or 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

• 1/4 cup minced onion or 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

• 3/4 cup crumbled blue cheese

• 1 pinch of Bonfire™ Extra Bold Smoked Sea Salt

DIRECTIONS

1. In a large bowl, mix together the beef, garlic, onion.

2. Preheat grill for high heat.

3. Form 6 burgers into 1/2 inch thick patties. Lightly oil grate. Place burgers on grill. Cook for approximately 6 minutes, turning once.

4. Add Bleu Cheese a few minutes before burgers are done.

5. Top with Bonfire Extra Bold Smoked Sea Salt.

6. Add your favorite condiments to a toasted bun and enjoy!

Introducing Fusion Flavored Salt Trios!

Our Artisan Salt Trios have been really popular for some time now (can’t decide on just one sea salt? Go with three! Need a last-minute hostess gift? Trios to the rescue!), and it was just a matter of time until we wised up and realized the Fusion salts would make for some knockout trio collections.

The brand new, just released Fusion Salt Trios are a delicious way to try out some of our all-time favorite Fusion Flavored Salts, from bright citruses to savory mushroom and truffle flavors to hot and spicy pepper blends. Each trio includes a selection of three full-size Fusion all-natural flavored sea salts, a glass serving tray, and three salt spoons. They’re the perfect way to give the gift of flavor to your favorite home cook, chef, or salt fanatic. Get a head start on the holidays and pick up a few to stash for those sneaky last-minute gift needs—you know one will pop up sooner or later!

Still feeling partial to the classic Artisan Salt Trios? Good, because they’re looking better than ever! Newly packaged in a clear display box, our smartly edited collections—Exotic Salts, Finishing Salts, French Salts or Smoked Salts—make for great gifts for those with sophisticated salty tastes.

Which Trio will be your favorite?

What does “with a grain of salt” even mean?

At some point we’ve all been told to take some bit of information “with a grain of salt,” usually by Aunt Janine when the info is coming from Uncle Jack after one too many cold ones. We generally take the phrase to mean accepting a statement but holding a degree of skepticism about its truth, but where did the phrase come from?

In an ancient text entitled Naturalis Historia, Roman author Pliny the Elder writes of the discovery of a poison antidote that includes a grain of salt as an ingredient. The grain of salt was meant to be the element that would help the less-than-savory-sounding recipe go down, thus ensuring protection against the poison.

This being pumpkin season, I can’t help but also mention the related Italian phrase “avere sale in zucca.” This means “to have salt in your pumpkin,” (with pumpkin loosely translating to “head”) or to have intelligence, making “grain of salt” a reference to a small bit of intelligence. With a grain of salt is also a literal translation of the Latin phrase cum grano salis, which is often used with a statement that should be taken moderately, with care, or not too literally.