Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Emperor's New Diet?

How much would YOU pay for "Gourmet Salt"?

I recently read an article that detailed a "salt sampler rack" (like a spice rack but with different salts) that sold for over $100.00. I just can't imagine who's buying over $100.00 in gourmet salt. I could see spending 5 bucks on some cool looking black salt, but I imagine that's probably still a pretty hard sell for most people.

Maybe I'm missing something.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did it look REALLY cool?  I bet that sampler rack would've been a super stylish kitchen accessory.  At least it better be, for > $100...

~mike said...

Actually, it looked a bit...dowdy?

I can't find the article talking about the salt rack, but this is the product: $165 at Red Envelope!!!

http://www.redenvelope.com/re/gifts/product_display/product_information.jsp?nc=48879&BV_SessionID=%40%40%40%401762570903.1186698159%40%40%40%40&BV_EngineID=cccladdlikklmkecefecefedfgfdfmf.0&refPg=endeca_srch&N=0&Nr=searchable%3A0&Ntk=search&Ntt=salt&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial&initSrch=search&oid=24197480&nc2=1

Patti said...

I'm not sure what is says about me, but I would consider purchasing the salt rack. Not at the price though. Are they for real? The salt rack looks very apothecary-ish. Also, I recently purchased a Whirley Pop. http://www.popcornpopper.com/24000.html

Katy Bowser said...

Mike, what a wonderful blog you have! As for salt- Julia Child's feeling was that salt is salt and that she (the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking) could care less.