HALEN MÔN BLOG
Expect interesting and delicious articles on everything from how to use our pure sea salt to eco-friendly gift ideas, how to season like a chef to flavoured salt recipes.
Our Christmas Gift Guide 2015
Though we're sure that any food-lover will be pleased with a gift from Halen Môn this Christmas, we know that sometimes choosing can be difficult, so we've put together a quick festive guide for the different people in your life. FOR YOUR SECRET SANTA Our exclusive...
A Panad with… Do Lectures Co-Founder David Hieatt
Together, David Hieatt and his wife Clare have founded three of our favourite companies. First came Howies, a clothing brand with brochures so beautifully engaging that we couldn't bear to throw them away. Our favourite page was always the 'library', which listed the...
Salt, flowers, bitters and chocolates: The Meadow
'The Meadow celebrates the elemental essentials of the table by exploring the variety and nuances that ennoble and inspire us. We welcome our customers with expertise, passion, and a desire to share our interests in food and culture. Through this simple mission we...
The Telegraph: How Salt Had a Gourmet Makeover
'"Pass the salt' is a tricky request these days. Pink crystals or grey? Truffle or Christmas tree flavour? Crunchy flakes or lustrous pearls? From the sea or the earth? Or maybe you’d like to grate your own? Salt has never been so abundant in so many different...
Christmas Shopping Events at Ty Halen
As the weather gets colder and the nights get darker, we're looking forward to bright festivities. As well as being jam-packed with our world-famous sea salt, our contemporary shop is now full of Christmas gifts from other producers, from both near and far. From...
4 Things We Loved About Nantucket
“Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shore, more lonely than the Eddystone lighthouse. Look at it—a mere hillock, and elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.” - from Moby...
A Panad With… The Mushroom Garden’s Cynan Jones
Cynan is, without a shadow of a doubt, THE mushroom man in our eyes. Ten years ago he decided to dig further into the fungi kingdom - something which had always interested him - and his business The Mushroom Garden was the result of his foraging. He and his wife June...
3 Memorable Meals in The City That Never Sleeps
A week in a city that never sleeps visiting customers, chefs and friends meant a week of serious eating and drinking. In the words of George Eliot, 'one can say everything best over a meal', so how better to do business? In the first of four blogs on our trip, we have...
A Panad with…Food Photographer Jonathan Gregson
Now that so many of us have a good camera on our phones, and even Halen Môn's co-founder David has got to grips with instagram, we are surrounded by photos in a way that we never have been before. In an ocean of imagery, it takes something special to stand out....
Forty Years in Cookbooks
I was asked recently for a list of cookbooks that have been influential in my life, by a friend writing his own book. As I flicked through many heavily-laden shelves, I realised how much these books have influenced how my family and I have lived for the past 40 years...