Jacobsen Salt Co.
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Jacobsen Salt Co.

Portland, Oregon

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A salt company that hand-harvests sea salt from Netarts Bay on the Oregon coast. The Pearl District shop doubles as a tasting room where you can sample infused salts, salt-preserved honey, and salt caramels that will ruin you for the commercial stuff. It's the kind of place that makes you realize you've been seasoning wrong your entire life.

Insider tip

The salt tasting flight. Try the pure flake, the black garlic, and the ghost chile side by side. The infused honey makes an unreasonably good gift.

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