Showing posts with label The Meadow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Meadow. Show all posts

Friday, May 22, 2009

Give the gift of .....salt?

If it's one thing I enjoy more than receiving a really cool gift, it's giving one (I'm pretty confident this goes for my wife as well).Maybe it's just a sign that I'm getting older, but I can assure you this wasn't the case when I was a kid.

Whatever the reason, I can say that as we've delved deeper into the food realm it is obvious there is no shortage in cool gifts to spend your money on.

Since Regina's birthday was coming up on the horizon I knew that I had to get my gift giving wheels in motion. Imagine my surprise when I was nosing around Michael Walsh's A View from the Kitchen and clicked one of the purveyors he had listed. I noticed a link to The Meadow.

The Meadow? What they hell do they sell?

Jackpot! The Meadow is a shop out of Portland, Oregon that offers a massive number of salts. It would be the perfect gift for my self diagnosed saltaholic wife.

For the past year she has been spooning her sea salt with a tiny glass bowl and spoon. Effective? Yes, but not much to look at in the decorative sense. That being said I knew she would love the hibiscus salt dish with dainty leaf and twig spoon.

What would go better with a hibiscus salt dish than some volcanic sea salt from Hawai'i?

The dish was a huge hit. At first the blackness of the salt freaked her out, but I think it's grown on her.

Mission accomplished. Cool gift given.