Salt & Wind is a food and travel website created by food and travel expert, Aida Mollenkamp, in December 2014. The sister company, Salt & Wind Travel, launched in 2017 to provide boutique group travel services for fellow food lovers. Through our editorial work and our trips, we're on a mission to help you travel in good taste!
We live by the philosophy that every rule has an exception and one such exception was at Rancho Pescadero where we fell head-over-heels for this juice. A little sweet, totally refre...
We first came across this ceviche on our trip to Rancho Pescadero and we're totally obsessed. This watermelon shrimp ceviche has all the hallmarks of Baja cuisine but with the unexpe...
Pretty much all our favorite green curry flavors — kaffir lime, chili, and lemongrass — come together in these salty, spicy peanuts, which are pretty much our favorite bar snack as of r...
St. Pat's falls on a Thursday, which could either bum you out for lack of being able to celebrate or cause you to get creative. In the spirit of keeping things positive (and since we're always...
Between the holiday card writing, menu planning, and events, the “to do” list just doesn’t quit this time of year. And rather than waiting to see friends at more formal festivitie...
The new holiday tradition we're all about? Hosting a tamalada! It's like a cookie-making party but for tamales. And you get tons of amazing food as a result!
On the latest edition of our Global Kitchen series with our friends at KitchenAid, we're sharing one of our favorite ways to make baked eggs, Shakshuka. This classic Middle Eastern dish is mad...
Sometimes the simplest recipes are our favorite -- case in point these Meyer Lemon Chive Crab Bites that are as familiar as your favorite crab salad yet fancified enough for your holiday cocktail p...