If your idea of salt is limited to what comes in a shaker, a trip to the West Village will rock your world. The Meadow, which just opened Wednesday on 523 Hudson Street, sells over 100 kinds of salt, from coarse to flaky, volcanic to rose-colored, Mesquite smoked to salt mixed with truffles. Some taste strongly of mineral, others taste fresh from the sea. Shop owner and cookbook author Mark Bitterman wants you to toss your box of iodized salt. "Our focus is on finishing salts," Bitterman told the News. "We suggest using more complex salts at the end of the cooking process rather than adding in the middle." Each salt can be paired with a certain foods. He recommends a flake salt for salad dressings. The silvery-gray sel gris is ideal for finishing meats. A Fleur du Sel makes butter pop. Taster size salt bottles (1.2 oz) start at around $4 and go up from there. Two and half pounds of their multipurpose sel gris will run you about $14.
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Got this from a recommendation from Anna. The chocolate wasn’t super milk chocolate, but still an amazing chocolate flavor that kept be coming back for more. I will be ordering online if I can
We're so glad you enjoyed it, Ashley! You can definitely order to your heart's content online and we're happy to help if you need anything.
I'm eating this one as I write. I really like nearly everything about this combo - the caraway is nice, the garlic, onion, and general saltiness is great, and it really tastes like everything bagel! I'm sure the % of chocolate was tested and there's a reason why it's 52% milk chocolate. In my opinion, it could have been a little darker; I think something just a little more bittersweet would have balanced out the savory flavors nicely. That said, the milk chocolate here is still really good.
My dad was really thrown off by the caraway and didn't like the experience. To each their own, haha.
Gee! Thank you so much for this review. Our Everything Bagel Bar is definitely one of our more wacky Meadow creations for sure, and we love that you can appreciate it in all its uniqueness and weirdness.
My partner is the chef of our household and couldn't stop talking about how good this was. We used it in a homemade dressing for a southwest chicken salad and it was delicious!
So happy to hear this Amanda! Our staff consistently rave about this paprika - it's chef's kiss!
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