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Mississippi Ave Visitors Guide
Mississippi Ave has a culture all its own, combining originality, variety, and excellence with style and energy. Almost every businesses is locally owned and operated, making it a welcome break from the corporate fare found elsewhere.

Hudson Street and the West Village Visitor's Guide
The Meadow's New York location lies on a bustling thoroughfare of Manhattan's West Village: Hudson Street. Permeated by a romantic air, it is distinctive for its many stately historic homes and buildings, tree-lined streets and delectable offering of boutiques, restaurants and bars.

Our Blogs

Salt News
Exploring the world of salt, including recipes that artisan salts and how-tos for cooking with Himalayan salt blocks.

Chocolate News
The world of artisan chocolate - chocolate bars, chocolate news, and chocolate musings.

In The Cupboard
In The Cupboard is a blog by The Meadow that celebrates cocktail bitters and a well stocked cupboard.

Maker Profiles

Amabito No Moshio (Seaweed salt)
Moshio is the earliest known sea salt produced by the Japanese, dating back to nearly 2,500 years ago.

Askinosie Chocolate
Askinosie believes that making the best chocolate requires cultivating a direct relationship with cacao farmers.

Bad Dog Bitters
Making bitters inspired by Texan flavors and the Austin bar scene, including Sarsparilla Dry and Fire and Damnation.

Bitter End Bitters
Want to add regionally-inspired spice to your cocktail? Check out The Bitter End.

Byrne and Carlson Chocolate
Through tempering, mixing, shaping and coating a brilliant chocolatier may produce something truly transformative. Ellen Byrne and Christopher Carlson are such artists.

Dandelion Chocolate
Dandelion makes bean to bar chocolate in the heart of San Francisco.

Dick Taylor
Adam Dick and Dustin Taylor got their start building boats by hand, turning straight wood into beautifully curved boat hulls. Today, they mold cacao into transformative dark chocolate with the same passion and attention to detail.

Hella Bitters
Hella focuses their business on the salt and pepper of bars – Aromatic and Citrus bitters. This laser-like focus on these two flavors have made them some of the best around.

Icelandic Flake Sea Salt
Icelandic Flake salt is perhaps the world’s only artisan salt produced with 100% geothermal energy, and one of the best flake salts available anywhere to boot, making it the flake salt of choice for consumers looking for excellent salt made in an environmentally sustainable way.

Gourmet Salt Guide

An Introduction
Salt is the prism through which the ingredients, dishes, and people of the world can be experienced in all their fullness and variety.

How to Salt for Explosive Flavor
An in-depth explanation of why finishing salts work and how-to guide for salting your food.

Sea Salt vs. Table Salt
The difference between an artisan sea salt and regular table salt is about as big as the difference between a high-quality fresh mozzarella and Cheez Whiz.

Guide to Types of Artisan Salt
Each type of salt works best in different applications. Flake salts for salads, sel gris for steaks, and fleur de sel for caramels. Find the right salt here.

How to Salt a Salad
The single easiest way to make your salad taste better is to use a better salt. Read about how to use artisan flake salts on your salads.

What is Fleur de Sel?
This classic gourmet salt has four distinctive characteristics that make it the best all-around finishing salt.

What is Flake Sea Salt?
A sea salt with a pantheon of different salt crystals, from hollow Aztec pyramids, to trapezoidal shards, and fine shavings.

What is Sel Gris?
Sel gris is distinguished by its coarse crystals, high moister content (typically around 13%), and minerally flavor. A classic salt for cooking and some finishing.

Guide to Curing with Salt

Guide to Hawaiian Sea Salt
Hawaii has one of the most fascinating and longest-living salt traditions in the United States.

Radiation and Japanese Sea Salt
We're often asked if the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor disaster in March of 2011 affects our Japanese salts.

Himalayan Pink Salt and Salt Blocks

Guide to Pink Himalayan Salt Blocks
An overview of how to use pink Himalayan salt blocks.

How to Cook Steak on a Himalayan Salt Block, with Pictures
A step-by-step guide for cooking food on a Himalayan salt block.

Minerals in Himalayan Pink Salt
A comprehensive list of the the trace minerals, electrolytes, and elements contained in a typical sample of Himalayan salt based on a spectral analysis.

Chocolate

How to Eat a Great Chocolate Bar
Eating a well-made chocolate bar is not just about taste. Quality dark and milk chocolate bars invite all five senses to the experience them.

What Makes the Best Dark Chocolate? Great Cacao
The very best chocolate is not just the result of expert craftsmanship on the part of the chocolatier, but also on the genetic variety of the cacao bean, soil and weather conditions, harvesting knife work, and skillful and attentive fermentation and drying.