In our opinion, gourmet salt is the quintessential ingredient during the holiday season. This festive time is filled with food and family, and so to enhance the experience, we recommend replacing lifeless, processed, table salt with all natural, flavor-forward, gourmet salts. Our salts are each packaged in beautiful, hand made, glass jars that we import from Italy to truly show off the splendor and natural color of our products. In addition to individual jars, we have gift sets available, which make a thoughtful and unique present for just about anyone on your holiday list.

Our premium salts are divided into two categories – Pure Foundation and Beyond Blends. The Pure Foundation collection highlights the wonderful variety of salts from around the world in their natural state without any additional ingredients. This is a good place to start, and if you are looking to move beyond table salt, we would highly recommend trying the pink flakes of Murray River or the deep brine flavor of Sel Gris.

The Beyond Blends collection is our exclusive line of chef-inspired, hand blended, gourmet salts. As a base, each of these blends uses one or more of the Pure Foundation salts, and then our salt chef incorporates only the finest premium ingredients to further enhance the flavor of the salts for a variety of culinary applications. Our focus is organic and locally-derived ingredients in our blends, and certainly you will experience the difference the moment you open the jar! Some of our most popular salts from the Beyond Blends collection during the holiday season are the sweet and smokey Hickory Maple Blend and the dill powerhouse Dill-icious Blend.

And while you are checking off gifts for the holiday season, do not forget our unique variety of Saltwares!

We love when others love our salts! Recently we met Amanda, who writes a blog called the Nutritionist Reviews, which is filled with wonderful food product reviews and exciting giveaways. Amanda also earns extra points because she lives in Michigan!

Anyway, we provided Amanda with a few of our various unrefined salts and salt blends for her to reivew, as well as one of our Top Seller Sets for a giveaway item. We just heard back from Amanda, and the good news is that even though she does not use a lot of salt in her cooking, she is a huge fan of our distinctive products. Check out the review here!

Amanda’s giveaway is a great opportunity to try some of our most popular salts so we encourage you to check out her blog, and try for a chance at winning our Top Sellers Set. Good luck and thanks again Amanda for the awesome review.

Tyler with Beyond the Shaker Salts

It was fantastic working with Jennifer Youssef and her photographers at the Detroit News on this article and we are proud to be part of the vibrant Michigan economy as it continues to transform itself. Maybe instead of “Pure Michigan” as a slogan, the state should adopt the tagline “Moving from Cars to Cuisine”?! We will see….

And as an update there are many exciting things in the works at Beyond the Shaker which we are rolling out for the holiday season including some fantastic gift ideas and new salt sets. Get ready.