Artisan Salt Co. Fumee De Sel Chardonnay Oak Smoked Sea Salt, 7.5 Ounce Jar

We had first tried the Salish Alderwood Smoked Sea Salt and REALLY liked it. Based on reviews I decided to try this one as well. In our opinion they are both great but I would have to say at this point the Alderwood remains my favorite but I'm sure that is just due to personal taste.

I use these salts on just about anything you can imagine. I put it in soups, on salads, on vegetables and without question meat.

My husband travels so I eat alone a lot. I can take some chicken breast meat or a few pieces of shrimp toss it in a small skillet and sprinkle a little of this salt on it and it's just about as good as having it grilled.

Definitely worth trying!

This is a great smoked salt, naturally smoked over oak Chardonnay wine barrels. This is the third variety of Artisan smoked salt I have purchased and all have been exquisite. I use this salt as a gourmet table salt that has really positively complimented every dish I have tried it with. I tried a different brand in the past that appeared to be made with liquid smoke (trashed it). That is definitely not the case with this salt. I highly recommend this Artisan salt.

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The flavors in this product are absolutely fabulous. Naturally smoked lending a delicate, natural flavor of smoke. The only reason why I didn't rate a 5 star is that I find the little pellets do not dissolve well into cold dishes unlike the flaked style salts.

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We use this salt almost every day in some thing. It's great on oven roasted veggies, scrambled eggs, or something on the grill. I plan on getting more of these for the holidays to give to all of my "chef" friends!

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When someone told me about smoked salt, it sounded nuts. Then I read about it in my favorite cooking blog, the author had thought it sounded nuts also, until he tried it. So I gave it a shot, and absolutely love it. I have shared some with friends who are also very pleased with it. One friend told me that she likes to open the lid just to get a whiff of it... now I do too.

The grains are a bit large for me when I use it on steak or veggies, so I put a bit of it in a salt grinder that I have used when sprinkling it on meat or grilled asparagus.

I read about many varieties of smoked salt, and this sounded the best to me. I am sure I will try others.

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Lazzaroni Amaretti Cookies Snaps 7oz

I happened to run across these cookies by accident, once I ate them, I looked them up on the internet and ordered them through Amazon, you can never just eat one. They are sooooooooooooooooooo good.

I had a recipe for a raw kale salad that used these cookies, raw kale, parmesan cheese, sliced pears and pepper. The only other ingredient was olive oil. What a fabulous taste/texture experience. The salty cheese with the crunchy, sweet crushed cookies and the sweet soft pears and the curly kale. Delicious!

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Ordered these for a topping that was needed for a Thanksgiving dessert. So yummy good that I was eating them plain. Also I have crushed them up with roasted pecans and am putting them on my Vanilla ice Cream.

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Australian Shiraz (World Vineyard)

Over the past seven years I've made several shiraz wines from various wine kits. The "Australian Shiraz" in the World Vineyard series put out by Winexpert turned out to be surprisingly good. Although the World Vineyard series is not one of their high-end series (the Eclipse series taking that honor) the wines of this more affordable series are excellent in their own right. Moreover, they're really easy to make and shouldn't require more than three hours of your time over the four week period from the initial mixing to bottling. Plus, they are designed to be ready to drink fairly quickly. Winexpert suggests a two-month minimum aging prior to drinking. (Of course, it's always a good idea to let some of the bottles age for longer, since the wine will continue to develop for as much as a year after bottling.)

The Autralian Shiraz is a dry medium-body read with light oak intensity. A full-flavored wine, one will notice the flavor of black fruits and spice on the palate. Serve with full-flavored beef dishes.

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Whole Duck Foie Gras w/ Sauternes Torchon Style, Hudson Valley, 1 lb

I was happy with this product and I will order again. It was a bit pricey; I lived in France and I guess I got spoiled.

With all respect, I implore you to use your own judgement and conscious when buying this product, but please understand what it is.

These animals have been force fed by sticking metal tubes down their throats until their livers become 10 times their normal size. They frequently have gashes all over their beaks and throats. The ducks are so frightened of humans that even the few that have been rescued will never let a human touch them again.

Please don't be allow these companies to hide the facts from you, and the facts are unsettling, to say the least. Use your own judgement, but please don't be blind.

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Disgusting and cruel. Do not buy this, please. These poor animals are tortured their whole life by being force fed through tubes for the sake of a "good meal"! Please have a heart and do not contribute to this industry. It is barbaric. Learn more and sign a petition here:

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Grand Edition Gourmet Food and Snacks Gift Basket -Multiple Sizes

Received this for Fathers Day and found the basket contained mostly stuffing and over-sized boxes. The very decorative box of Angilina's "Sweet Butter Cookies" looked like it could hold 6-8 ozs.of cookies. Inside there were 2.2 ozs of tiny ordinary cookies laden with palm oil and made in Indonesia. The 2 oz."California Pantry" gourmet water crackers were edible with the Wisconsin cheese but had a lot of trans-fat and were made in Hong Kong. The 4 oz. "Focaccia Crisps Tuscan Style Crackers" were ho-hum, slightly not-crisp crackers, made with palm oil in Indonesia. A 2oz. slice of "Italian Rasperry Cake" was dry. The most weight in the basket came from the 3.75 oz. pack of cheese, the 5 oz beef salami and a small jar of mustard. All 3 were ok, but at what price?

I have purchased a number of different food gift baskets over the years online, and its always a little difficult to determine which one to get. You have to carefully read the content descriptions, as some baskets have a lot of "filler" items. This makes it appear that you are getting a lot of food, but its crackers and condiments. My father liked this basket, he said the salami and other things were of good quality, so I would recommend it to others.

I would really like to see more food gift baskets that were filled with more "hard" food items like meat & cheese and less "fluff"

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Sent this to my dad for Father's Day and got a note a few days later saying, "some of the items in it were pretty tastless. The formaggio e vino had no trace of vino whatsoever. Some of the cookies and crackers had no taste to speak of and were only useful to scoop up the formaggio which wasn't remarkable. Whoever sold this to you may want to rethink their source. The basket is nice, however!"

So much for a nice Father's day gift!

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I purchased this for my sister for Christmas, because she loves receiving food and gourmet baskets. This was my first order from this company. My sister said it was mostly filled with "fluff," and most of the products were stale. I would like to get a refund on this gift or send her a new one. She said she didn't want to hurt my feelings, but she thought I would want to know. Nice basket, sis but almost everything was stale. Could this be last year's left overs? I would not reccommend this product. I give it an F for fraud advertising!

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I just received this "Grand Edition Gourmet" food basket for Christmas, and am totally disappointed. For all the goodies found inside, I can purchase all of them at a supermarket for less than $10, and better quality ones too! The most ridiculous is the "White Chocolate Amaretto" wafer cookie, which sure enough contain only one 2 1/2" thin wafer cookie! Then the Cajun Mustard is of size where the restaurant would just give it to you when you order a sandwich. The "Sweet Butter Cookies" packed in Indonesia is of unknown origin and contains ten one-inch size of very ordinary Danish butter cookies. The "Double Chocolate Raspberry Cake" comes in a big flat box, but the cake is only a quarter of the box size, and no bigger than a regular piece of brownie. Other items also come in such small quantity that will amaze you! Something does come in sizable quantity: paper stuffing! The only good that comes out of this gift is the heartfelt thoughtfulness of the sender. Anything more than 1 star given is so that the sender will not feel that their money is being ripped off!

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