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.

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

]]> http://www.grainofsalt.com/2011/10/saltworks-first-ever-salt-sweepstakes/feed/ 0 http://www.grainofsalt.com/2011/06/bonfire-extra-bold-smoked-sea-salt/ http://www.grainofsalt.com/2011/06/bonfire-extra-bold-smoked-sea-salt/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:19:01 +0000 admin http://www.grainofsalt.com/?p=98 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!

Fusion Fresh Flavor Trio: Spanish Rosemary, Thai Ginger, Lime Fresco

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?

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?

Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder

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.

Welcome to the brand new SaltWorks blog, Grain of Salt! A number of us here at SaltWorks will be sharing news, articles, tips, recipes—anything and everything sea salt-related along with all of the cool things going on here at our Woodinville, Washington headquarters. With over 100 varieties of premium gourmet and bath sea salts available we should have plenty to talk about, but what we’d like to know is what questions you have for us. Wondering what grey salt is? How to use Kala Namak? Looking for some good bath salt recipes? Let us know, and we’ll probably provide you with way more information than you ever though existed on the subject of sea salt. And since we’ve been America’s Sea Salt Company™ since 2002, we hope you’ll take our information with just a little more than—yep, you guessed it—a grain of salt.

We can’t wait to hear from you!