Issue #01 (October 2023)
Welcome to the first Salt List - Your Guide to What We’re Eating, Drinking, Pining For and Listening To in Northeast Harbor.
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Playing: The Salt Market’s Autumn Playlist on Spotify
Eating: Chocolate Olive Oil Cake in Skull Molds
Reading: Make Way for McCloskey
Drinking: Negronis (The Salt Market’s recipe below)
Recommending: Wonderland
The Salt Market’s Autumn Playlist on Spotify
Our autumn playlist is full of big band ballads like Henry Mancini’s Moon River, jazzy standards like Billie Holiday’s Autumn in New York, and cozy lofi beats by Bequem and softy. It’s our answer to slower to rise mornings and earlier sunsets in the evening. It’s the kind of music that makes us want to sip a latte and curl up on the benches outside in the yellow sunlight.
Chocolate Olive Oil Cakes in Skull Molds
Now we can't give you all of our culinary secrets (you’ll have to wait for our cookbook one day), but I highly recommend investing in some of these skull molds. We’re not really cutesy holiday people at The Salt Market, but these are so chic. We make a luscious and dense chocolate olive oil cake, and in these molds? Phew. A little powdered sugar sprinkled on top by our baker? Heaven.
Come have some spooky cake at The Salt Market through November.
Make Way for McCloskey
This spring I put a copy of my favorite book (of all time) Time of Wonder by Robert McCloskey on the Salt Market counter. Every day we turned a new page and began a tradition of displaying Robert McCloskey books. We’ve done Time of Wonder, Burt Dow Deep Water Man, and we’re currently paging through One Morning in Maine.
This treasury is on my wishlist! It would make a beautiful coffee table book or, if you have children, and I speak from my own childhood experience here, a fabulous bathtime book.
The Salt Market’s Negroni
Maybe it's the color that puts me in the mood for negronis come fall, or maybe it's the more bitter taste with a lovely warming effect that's so welcome when the leaves start to turn, but I believe firmly that October is negroni month. Here is a tried and true favorite of mine from The New York Times. I recommend investing in the hard to track down Ohoro gin, a London dry gin from Japan, and serving in a fancy glass while listening our Spotify playlist.
Yields: 1 drink
1¼ ounces gin
1¼ ounces Campari
1¼ ounces sweet vermouth
