TASTES OF THE SEA

‘We can think of few ingredients that change dishes in the same way as salt does. What would life be without a smooth caramel punctuated by salt crystals, a perfectly cured bacon rasher, or a warm handful of glistening, salted potato crisps?

‘Our life has centred around sea salt – making it, perfecting it and travelling the world selling it – for over 20 years. We use seawater drawn from the Menai Strait around Anglesey. Before the water even reaches our saltcote (an old French word for a building by the sea), it has already passed through two natural filters: a mussel bed and a sandbank. We then gently heat the seawater in a vacuum so it boils at a lower temperature. Gradually, the water releases steam and turns into a very salty brine. When the concentration of the salt in the water is high enough, we release it into shallow crystallisation tanks and leave it there overnight to allow the incredibly beautiful sea salt crystals to form. Every single flake is then harvested by hand before being rinsed in brine until it shines. While the majority of our sea salt is kept plain, some of it is blended with a range of the finest ingredients to make our seasoned range – chilli salt, vanilla salt, celery salt, to name a few,