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.
St David’s Day at Fortnum & Mason
'To be born Welsh Is… privileged. Not with a silver spoon in the mouth, but music in the blood & poetry in the soul' - so tweeted BBC Wales on St David's Day. The only thing we felt lay forgotten was 'good food in the stomach', because we have such a bounty of...
The Latest Innovation from Halen Môn?
The latest variety of Halen Môn is a rather unusual one, but then, you wouldn't expect something ordinary from us, would you? For our newest product, we have hand mixed our infamous pure white sea salt with the blackest Welsh charcoal. Our charcoal is made for us by...
Halen Môn Celebrates New Law with DEFRA
Following the news that Halen Môn is to join the likes of Champagne and Parma ham as a Protected Food Name (Protected Designation of Origin, to be exact), we were invited to a reception yesterday to help celebrate the fine food the UK produces, at DEFRA's Westminster...
Halen Môn Joins the Likes of Champagne & Parma Ham to become Protected Food Name
From today (January 15th) the Halen Môn, Anglesey Sea Salt names are protected by the European Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status, which is one of three special European Protected Food Name (PFN) designations. Under the EU’s protected food name scheme...
What have London black cabs, bovine semen and Halen Môn got in common?
The answer, of course, is that Britain exports all of them across the globe. Others on the list of 'Britain's Oddest Exports' included haggis, lemon curd and London Bridge. The following is an extract from the article, published in The Huffington Post: Britain is...
Popping the Question (and the Halen Môn Lid)
Earlier this year, we met a couple of Halen Môn fans from across the pond. Theo told us that he had asked his now wife to marry him by presenting her with an exquisite ring nestled in a tube of our Pure Sea Salt Smoked Over Oak. The couple have now been happily...
Seriously Beautiful Chocolate
We have been supplying Rococo chocolates with our sea salt for longer than we care to remember, and we thought it was about time we raved about what a fine company they are. Chantal Coady founded the now world-famous and multi award-winning business in 1983, in a bid...
The Best Salt on Earth?
The following is an extract from an article by Samuel Muston, published in The Independent in May 2013 Only the finest flakes will do for the likes of Heston and Ferran – not to mention the makers of posh chocolate bars. Samuel Muston goes in search of the white...
Salted Caramel is Sticking Around
Every time you think the Salted Caramel fad is over, another recipe, product or variety pops it’s irresistible head onto a pudding menu, drinks list or deli shelf. In fact, it seems to have stuck around here in the UK (sorry) for long enough to exceed a passing phase....
Where did our tubes go?
We used to package our salt and pepper in foil lined cardboard tubes with metal or plastic ends. They were sturdy and looked very nice. They were also very hard to recycle and so mostly ended up as landfill. We weren't happy about that. Our new pouches use 50% less...