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If we’d been born 120 years earlier, we’d probably have been rum runners, smuggling our intoxicating products to grateful customers. Even now we think you’ll agree that our products are the “real McCoy”—all natural and only the highest quality.
Old Salt Merchants is a family run nautical provisions company located in the Victorian Seaport of Port Townsend, Washington. Anika is a designer, caramel maker, and iced tea junkie, and Joshua is a publisher, sailor, and rum drinker who loves old-time radio. Between them they’ve been involved with associated maritime trades and businesses for more than two decades.
Our mission is to be the best “olde shoppe” in port, offering superior, natural, nautical provisions and gifts to customers who appreciate the same.
If you call and it’s noisy, that’s just the kids, the dog, or the fog horns.
Our merchant sailor and delivery skipper. His is a life of trade winds, tea traders and trade routes, rhumb lines, dock lines, rum and lime. Venturing into lesser known ports of call, Dutch regularly returns with the finest nautical provisions on the globe.
Dutch has put a lot of miles under his keel. Our line includes ingredients from places as varied as Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Australia and Port Townsend. Like any proper old salt, Dutch is also a teller of colorful sea stories. Sometimes they get so colorful we have to send the kids away, but mostly we ask for more. It’s fun to work with someone who refers to people as “pollywogs” or calls them ”half-cocked” and says things like “full to the gunwhales.”
Visit our ship’s blog for sea stories, recipes and other tall tales.
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Summer is almost here! All winter I’ve been collecting perfect deck and backyard cocktail recipes in anticipation. Fruity Watermelon Margaritas — from Martha Stewart Rasberry & Key Lime Margarita — from Toyko Terrace Pineapple Sangria — from Erin’s Food Files Cherry Margarita — from Sweet Life Apricot Margarita — from Babble Food Herbal Peach Lavender [...]
I was going to say something cute and nautical about how happy we are to be selling on Scoutmob.com, but I didn’t want to go overboard with salty phrases. Then I realized I just used overboard – oops, nautical phrases are always floating around here!
So beyond my typical obsessions: tea, salt, chocolate and Instagram – I’ve been making this coconut chocolate chip cookie every weekend for kiddo lunches.Since one of my littles cannot have chocolate, her half of the batch has butterscotch chips. It’s the butterscotch version pictured above. Well, I can have chocolate so I decided to [...]
Looking for a new obsession? I’ve got one to share: jalapeno tequila. It’s super easy to make. Keep a batch in the fridge to keep you warm before summer hits! Jalapeno Tequila 3 cups silver tequila 2 sliced jalapenos Directions: Add tequila and sliced jalapenos to a large jar or pitcher. Keep covered and let [...]
Did you know coconut water, which is usually sterile, is quite similar to intracellular fluid and has been used as an emergency substitute for blood plasma? Coconut –water IVs were reportedly used by the British and Japanese during World War II and by Vietnamese soldiers on both sides. And we can’t think of another fruit [...]
Happy New Year! Looking for a quick idea to use your Jamaican Ginger Sugar? I whipped up some homemade granola (that part wasn’t quick-wink), topped it with greek yogurt and sprinkled with ginger sugar. Quick, easy and delicious.
What started as an off hand request turned into a holiday baking experiment which has now become product development. So watch for our Sea Smoke Salted Hot Chocolate Mix later this winter. Oh my. I’m super excited. It is in the hand of testers now. Merry, Merry to all!
**** Miss Kristin Carman for the Win ***** Feels like a good day for a contest! We’re giving away a set of our three teas: Rum and Cola, Tempest, and Equator – plus a homemade anchor ornament. How to win: 1) Leave a comment answering: Do you have a favorite ornament – what is [...]
