Gift Box
Profile Box — The Island Traveler
Five condiments that crossed an ocean to land in your kitchen.
$105
Five condiments that crossed an ocean to land in your kitchen. For the cook who collects the trips as much as the flavors. Papua New Guinea vanilla opens a room Madagascar doesn't occupy: grate it over a warm chocolate, into a dark-sauced poultry. Voatsiperifery, hand-gathered from…
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Spice · Vanilla
Papua New Guinea Vanilla
Sepik, Madang and Morobe provinces, Papua New Guinea
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Pepper · Black pepper
Voatsiperifery Pepper
East-coast rainforest, Manakara and Mananjary districts, Madagascar
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Salt · Rock salt
Persian Blue Salt
Semnan province, central desert mines, Iran
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Salt · Seasoned salt
Hawaiian Red Alaea Salt
Hawaiian Islands, island of Kauai, United States
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Pepper · Long pepper
Long Pepper
Java and Sumatra, Indonesia
The gift box in detail
For the cook who collects the trips as much as the flavors. Papua New Guinea vanilla opens a room Madagascar doesn't occupy: grate it over a warm chocolate, into a dark-sauced poultry. Voatsiperifery, hand-gathered from a wild vine in Madagascar (the only uncultivated pepper vine in the world, wild from end to end), signs game, mushrooms, and brown stocks. Persian blue salt — mined from Iranian deposits — flashes visually on a white sashimi; its taste is more mineral than sea salts, well matched to raw fish. Hawaiian red Alaea salt, blended with volcanic clay, on ceviche and Polynesian raw-fish plates. Long pepper from Java, a whole catkin, grated over a squash risotto or steeped in a chocolate syrup — a camphor-chocolate-pine note. Five trips, five islands, five distinct uses. The box ships with a five-page notebook, one island per page, telling the producer and the local use. The catch: the colored salts — Persian blue, Hawaiian red — earn their keep on the eye, not the heat. Their crystals dissolve and lose the color the moment they hit a hot pan. Use them raw, as a finish on cold or just-warm plates, where you actually see them.
“Five island condiments, each told by its producer, with a travel notebook.”
Who & when to give it
Recipients
- traveler
- curious cook
- home cook
Occasions
- christmas
- birthday
- housewarming
- thank you
Budget
$90 – $150
Level: intermediate
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