REDMOND Real Sea Salt - Natural Unrefined Gluten-Free Fine Grain Salt, 26oz (1 Pack) - Perfect for Cooking, Baking & Seasoning

Unofficial transcript of a conversation between Amazon founder and world's wealthiest man, Jeff B., and Amazon Prime member Bradley N. (The "Yelp Whisperer" ), head chef and co-founder of The Redwood Bistro.(Recorded live in San Mateo County, California on July 1, 2019).Jeff: Well, thanks for the invitation to visit with you. What a lovely spot!Bradley: Well, Jeff, thanks to you for coming out here. I'm glad that there was room for your helicopter to land nearby. With all these redwoods around, it's not so easy to find level, open ground.J: Not a problem. My pilot is the best!B: I'm really excited to be part of this new program, in which you invite Amazon Prime customers to talk with you about one of the products they've purchased recently on Amazon that has literally changed their lives for the better.J: Well, I'm really excited, too. This is an amazing opportunity for me to witness up close and personal how the products we feature on Amazon are impacting people's lives by reshaping consumer buying habits that they have built up over years, often decades, of prior practice.B: You are definitely doing that! In fact, the product that I want to talk with you about is an absolutely prime example of how Amazon is reshaping the average American consumers' shopping habits at the most basic and fundamental levels.J: Tell me more. I'm all ears!B: Salt! The real kind. Redmond Real Salt®.J: Real salt, you say? Isn't all salt real?B: Not really. Most of it is highly processed and comes from unspecified countries of origin where labor laws and environmental protection regulations are murky, at best. I'm talking about Redmond Life's amazing tasting, unrefined mineral salt that is mined in America, in Utah, where the company is based. They've been around since 1958, actually.J: That's a lot longer than Amazon!B: True, Jeff. True. But look around you, at all these old trees that surround The Redwood Bistro. Most of these here are probably only a few hundred years old, but if you explore the property, you'll find stumps of some that were clearly much, much older.J: How old are we talking?B: Over a thousand years in some cases, even 1,500 years or more. A few misshapen giants that escaped the logger's saw blade still exist in the open space preserves that protect much of the remaining forests in the Santa Cruz Mountains from further development. But guess what? Redmond's ancient pink sea salt is even older. Like millions of years older, when salty ocean water covered the land that is now today's Utah. It's been protected by layers of ash and sediment and has never been polluted or messed with. That's why this salt tastes so amazingly good. I use it with almost everything I cook here at The Redwood Bistro.J: Like what?B: Each winter, I purchase whole king salmon fillets directly from local fishermen who operate their vessels out of Half Moon Bay. I prepare Scandinavian style salt cured gravlax with organic sugar, dill, and dried juniper berries that we collect in autumn from select sites in the Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park. I serve it with oven baked rye bread, a wonderful local goat cheese from Harley Farms in Pescadero, California, freshly grated horseradish, and pickled vegetables from our summer garden. And we pair it with a West Sonoma Coast cool climate Chardonnay from Littorai.J: Yum! I hope you'll invite me to dine with you next year! Can I bring a friend?B: Sure. That's the best part about the 6-pack value bundle of Redmond Real Salt® in the big, 26 ounce packages. You can easily stock up on a year's supply of salt with one easy order on Amazon Prime. And when you do the math, your cost per ounce is so much better than what you'd expect to pay in a brick and mortar grocery store. Even at Whole Foods, if you don't mind me saying so.J: No, that's fine! My concept for Whole Foods isn't to try to compete with box stores or our online business partnerships, like the one we maintain with Redmond Life that allows us to offer such a great deal on their products. Whole Foods is more about the customer shopping and dining experience. That's why we're adding craft beer and wine bars, themed food mini-restaurants, and lots of appealing fresh produce and things like that. But even I must admit: we've got nothing like the view you have here at The Redwood Bistro!B: Yes, these redwoods are really quite special, aren't they? And the view of the Pacific Ocean isn't all that bad, either. Maybe you should consider buying a place in the neighborhood, Jeff. We're only a 30 minute ride from your Amazon offices in Palo Alto.J: That's an interesting thought. But we're talking salt, not real estate. Tell me a bit more about how ordering Redmond Real Salt® using your Amazon Prime account has literally changed your life for the better.B: Well, Jeff, that's kind of obvious, don't you think? I mean, it's salt we're talking about. Salt! Salt that I'm no longer buying at the grocery store. I am ordering an annual supply at a great price that is delivered directly to my doorway here at The Redwood Bistro. It has virtually replaced all my other salt-related purchases. No Maldon flakes. No salt mixes from Penzey's or McCormick or Trader Joe's.J: Actually, now that I think about it, ordering Redmond Real Salt® on Amazon is a perfect example of how we're changing America's consumer buying habits. You're right. It's salt! What is more elemental and essential for the human diet than that? As a species, we've been buying salt in small quantities from local grocers and merchants for thousands of years. Tens of thousands, probably. And usually it was produced locally or else was shipped from far away in bulk. But now you're enjoying unrefined, ancient pink sea salt containing dozens of trace mineral elements from the state of Utah, and my company is helping make that happen. Amazing!B: Actually, Jeff, it goes even deeper than that. Having all this great tasting, American made, ancient fine sea salt at my disposal has changed the way we cook here at The Redwood Bistro.J: It's actually changed the way you cook?B: Definitely! Redmond Real Salt® has such an amazing, distinctively pleasant taste that I use less dried spices, sauces, and other ingredients when I am finishing a meal or plating dishes. And as I mentioned earlier, I'm salt curing things like king salmon, which in the past I might have purchased from a gourmet foods purveyor like Williams Sonoma or Dean & DeLuca - at a massive markup on their ends. And, since I recently acquired a copy of Sandor Katz's fantastic book, The Art of Fermentation (around $30 on Amazon), I've also been making sauerkraut and other pickled and fermented vegetables and even fruits, using Redmond Real Salt®, of course.J: Very cool! Very cool, indeed.B: But it gets even better! On a recent visit to your new Amazon 4-Star store in Berkeley - which I reviewed positively on Yelp, by the way - I also picked up a copy of The Noma Guide to Fermentation co-authored by René Redzepi, founder of the 3-Michelin starred Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, and David Zilber ($21.99 on Amazon, quite the discount from the $40 listed retail price). And that book, too, has really been a revelation. Now, I go into the woods on food foraging expeditions all the time. When I return, I make simple salad dishes with things like redwood sorrel, wild nettles, mushrooms, berries, and miner's lettuce prepared with raw apple cider vinegar and a sprinkle of Redmond Real Salt®. That's it! People just love it. They respond to the freshness, the simplicity, the purity of it all.J: Well, you've convinced me! I better check with my personal chef and kitchen staff to see if they're using Redmond Real Salt® in the foods they prepare for me and my guests. And I’ll also make sure to gift them copies of those fermentation cookbooks you mentioned. In fact, I'm going to call them right now. Let's wrap this conversation up, Bradley. It's been fascinating, but all this talk about food has made me extremely hungry. I'm really looking forward to trying the dishes you've made using Redmond Real Salt® for us and the "Jammin' with Jeff" recording crew. So, what's on the menu?B: Local pasture raised pork tenderloin from Markegard Family Ranch with morel mushrooms, red flint heirloom polenta, early girl tomatoes, Armenian cucumber, and freshly foraged miner's lettuce with garden-grown arugula. All prepared using Redmond Real Salt®, of course. And a wild olallieberry coffee cake for dessert, which also has a 1/2 teaspoon of Redmond Real Salt® in the ingredients list.J: And to drink?B: A local Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir from Big Basin Vineyards. And a 2017 vintage Chardonnay from Woodside Vineyards, just down the road from here in Menlo Park. Because this meal will definitely pair well with both.J: That all sounds so delicious! Let's get started. I can't wait! And remember, folks: when you're jammin' with Jeff, you're always “primed and ready for a really great time.”®[end of transcript].YOU WANT NATURAL ? YOU WANT PERFECT BLOOD PRESSURE AND REDUCED INFLAMMATION ? YOU WANT EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE ? Well then Redmond Real Salt is the salt for you. Those who complain about occasional hard pieces of grit, or sand, or rocks somehow don't realize this is where minerals come from. So ignore them and simply continue on with using Redmond. Most table salts and those which claim to be sea salts contain flow agents. Usually silicone dioxide or aluminum silicate. These compounds are supposedly natural, but in most cases are synthesized and are responsible for the joint pain and arterial hardening which so many people develop after decades of eating chemical laced foods. Redmond Salt is your chance to reject chemicals and instead choose natural flavor directly from the earth. One last thing: Is Redmond Salt expensive ? Well, can you afford to start a salt mine, and buy tractors, and crushers, and sifters, and packaging machines ? No, so relax and pay just a little more for Redmond instead, because they're doing all the hard work for you.What a hoot!!! Is the flavor good? Sure, tastes like salt!!! Freshness??? Absolutely!! Couldn't be less that 10 million years old from what I understand.. I guess that is pretty fresh, in salt terms, right!!! Value for the money? Yelp, I guess so.. I really don't know, but, other people thought it was priced right, so, I took their word for it... I have used very little of it at this point, but, seems nice.. I am glad I got it... And, I like the packages... Over all, I think I did okay.... Maybe in a year I can give a better report, but, for now, I think this was the right thing to do.. I have done the pink salt before, it was good, but, I heard this might be just a hair better, so, I gonna try it!!!!!!I bought this salt based on youtubers I follow and on reviews.I actually bought the coarse Kosher salt this week, which I think I will like even more.I also bought it based on the fact that it is mined in the USA. It’s expensive for me-I live on Social Security-but am willing to pay more because of where it is mined.I am very satisfied with this product.You don’t know what you are missing until you use this salt. I have been using this salt for years. When I am out eating and I have to use regular salt my meal is not as good regular salt just tastes really salty. Real salt salts your food but it’s better than regular salt. Can’t really explain itI never knew there could be such a thing as delicious salt. I thought salt was salt - boy was I wrong. This stuff has beautiful sweet and smoky notes, but not like smoked salt or sugar - it just has a depth of flavor unlike any salt I've ever tasted. I often put a couple of tablespoons in a little glass dish and just throughout the day dip my finger in and savor the lovely taste. My tummy thinks that I'm eating a delicious salty snack while I'm really just keeping my electrolytes up, curbing my snacking, and enjoying this fantastic product. Thank you so much.This salt is the only salt I use; fine groundI have used Redmond Real Salt for over 20 years. It is an excellent pink salt.Don't listen to the moaners, so it has a little sand in it, it's a natural product.They're probably the kind of people who wash their sandwiches at a picnic, on the beach. Look at the good stuff it has in it, it's delicious too, far more flavour than that awful table salt. Waiting for my second delivery this year. It's a bit pricey but I think it's worth the extra.The Salt Fix book by Dr James Dinicolantonio who is a cardiovascular research scientist altered my perception of the benefits of using this particular salt. Feeling great!In researching and following a full keto and carnivore natural and proper human way of eating I discovered Redmond Real salt and have been using it for two years. It has helped to correct my high blood pressure to the extent that after only three months I didn't need any more blood pressure medications. My doctor was curious as to what I was doing yet when I explained to him all he would say is "Well it clearly works for you so keep on doing what you are doing!" I fully trust Redmond real salt for all my cooking needs.I bought it so long ago I can't remember - it has been six months now. I use a lot of salt when cooking daily and I barely used up one pack by now. It tastes great, the nutritional profile is pretty solid and the sweet-talk one the back of the pack is charming, not that it matters though. I haven't ever thought that buying this salt would make me save money in the long run, haha.Redmond salt joins my multiple salt types for more precise and effective seasoning of food prep. To date, it is just as described....flavourful and lends my dishes a full taste, enhancing the flavours of the ingredients. I will repurchase.