Heirloom Peppercorns and Himalasalt Zen Cube Highlight New Products from Sustainable Sourcing

One of my favorite companies, Sustainable Sourcing, the producers of Himalasalt have some new products worth checking out.  

Founder Melissa Kushi has gone to great pains to ensure her products are both ethically sourced and environmentally sound.  She was telling me how she calculated the environmental impact of her company in terms of carbon footprint and devised a plan to offset significantly more.

Kushi has added a whole line of heirloom peppercorns to her product lineup as well as solid 1lb blocks of pink Himalayan sea salt. 

New products include:

- Organic Heirloom Long Pepper is shade grown in Bali and hand-harvested in the monsoon forest.  With delicious notes of cardamom, nutmeg, and a hint of chocolate aroma, this highly prized heirloom is exquisite ground heavily in melted garlic butter as a dip for steamed artichokes, works beautifully to bring out flavors in fish, game, and vegetable grills, and is heavenly in the most delicate sauces, soups, stews, and for flavoring clear broth

- Organic Heirloom Cubeb Peppercorns are from the 1500s spice trade. Cubeb has the highest essential oil content of any pepper, with highly aromatic, flavorful notes of pine, cinnamon, and fine pepper.  Delicious in tea as an alternative to sweet chai, superb in gravies, sauces, in rice pilafs and biryanis, curries, soups, and grilling fish and vegetables.

- Himalasalt Zen Cube - Artisan Carved from the purest selected pink Himalayan sea salt crystals, the HimalaSalt Zen Cube brings elegance, tranquility, and a bit of zen fun to your meals, in addition to being the perfect finishing salt for edamame, salads, steamed greens, pastas, bread dipped in oils, and more! Kushi offers the blocks individually or with a stainless steel grater.  Each cube is hand-carved and varies in size, yet each one weighs approximately 1lb.

Kushi uses sustainable packaging in all of her products.  The clear plastic like film used in much of her packaging is actually a biodegradable film made from corn called Earthfirst PLA.

Sustainable Sourcing products are available directly from the company at their website as well as at a number of retailers across the country.