The salt tasting that Saltistry held at Food Court LA on Monday night was a great success. So successful in fact we had a crowd that sampled and tasted every morsel of food that we prepared! The duck rillette was devoured in a matter of an hour and the albacore tataki had even less of a chance and was gone in thirty minutes. Anyone who knows me knows that I always cook for more people than ever show up but Monday made my culinary head spin. We served up fifty pounds of pee wee potatoes in two hours! Of course we owe the success of each dish to the magic of the salt pairing and the pee wee potatoes with Truffle Salt was no exception.
For Denise and I the event was very exciting because it's always wonderful to meet new people and challenge new palettes. But, we usually model our Salt Parties after the old school throwback Tupperware Party. Because we were looking for a striking venue to release our newest Sampler Flavor Sets (coming soon to our website) we asked my friend, Rich Jhin to host us at Food Court LA. Unlike our previous no-cost parties this one had a $25 entrance fee to cover Rich's costs. We will be returning to the more intimate free salt party model for sure. Monday's party was so crowded it was very difficult for me to advise and explain the ideas and philosophy behind the Sea Salt Infusions and the food they are paired with. Although it was intense and exciting I yearned for the smaller more intimate events where I could make sure people dipped frugally as to not burn out their palette's. To explain to our enthusiastic guests that although the salts appear so beautiful and candy-like they are in fact Salt and are Salty.
I found it alarming and upsetting that several people who attended were overheard declaring something was "SALTY"! This reason alone is why we will return to the smaller more intimate salt party...so I can, as the inner chef in me demands, guide people along the salty road of of a tasting and make sure they are not all running for the Spa Water!
