When Ben Jacobsen was living abroad in Scandinavia during the late 2000s, he fell in love with high quality sea salt. However, once he returned to his native Oregon in 2011, he realized that no one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Nolan Calisch Photo / Jacobsen Salt Co. / Oishii Whenever someone I know goes out of town, the only item I ask them to ...

Move over Morton. Ben Jacobsen is handcrafting flaky sea salt from Oregon coast waters in what may be the state's first commercial salt production in over a century. Three months ago, the 36-year-old ...

Ben Jacobsen and his team at Jacobsen Salt Co. in Portland, Oregon are one of the few companies in the United States that hand-harvest salt from seawater. “Anybody can make salt, it’s of course very ...

This year, the Beaverton Farmers Market added a dozen new booths to its vendor lineup. One of those is Jacobsen Salt Co., which offers flake finishing sea salt straight out of Netarts Bay near ...

Ben Jacobsen started making salt in 2011, and it didn’t take long for the former Vancouver resident to land on some important radars. The New York Times wrote a story about him in 2012. Noted chefs ...

The two greatest food groups: Wine and anything salty. And now the two have meshed in extraordinary purple crystals to form a singular super food you can sprinkle on everything from blocks of cheese ...

Ben Jacobsen learned to appreciate good salt while living in Scandinavia, first as an MBA student in Denmark and then as a marketing professional in Norway. So when he moved to Portland a few years ...

Ben Jacobsen showing off his beloved flake salt Image courtesy of Jacobsen Salt Company Last winter, salt farmer Ben Jacobsen opened a saltworks on the grounds of an old oyster farm stationed on a ...

Courtesy of Nolan Calisch Photo / Jacobsen Salt Co. / Oishii Whenever someone I know goes out of town, the only item I ask them to bring back is locally harvested salt. Before I became a chef, my ...