| The husband/wife team of Nigel and Sarah are the founders and creative impetus behind Coastal Goods. While armies are known to march on their stomachs, Nigel and Sarah tend travel the world with a keen culinary eye for those gastronomic idiosyncrasies that define their destinations. In fact, their romance as well as entrepreneurial collaboration began during a winter sailing jaunt around the islands of the French Caribbean. Inspired by the vibrant seasonings of the West Indies and the ease with which these herbs and spices infused the limited provisions of shipboard living with intense flavor complexity, the couple hatched a plan to bring a bounty of equatorial spice back to warm their wind-whipped Nantucket Island kitchen.
After over a decade of success in introducing unique seasoning concepts to specialty food markets, Nigel and Sarah sold their original company to start Coastal Goods in 2002. From the get-go, the idea behind Coastal Goods was to begin by focusing on what they had come to see as the world's most important as well as popular seasonings: salt and pepper. Indeed, Sarah's Sea Salt - one of the couple's first and best-selling seasoning creations - became both the anchor and inspiration for Coastal Goods expansion into the new product lines of Salt Sensations and Pepper Perfections.
With distribution in many of the best specialty food shops and gourmet groceries nationwide, the Coastal Goods collection has expanded over the past couple of years to include a cinnamon-infused Sweet Sensations line, three Brine Time blends for easy one-step brining, and an internationally-extensive, pantry-specific array of organic herbs and spices.
Passionately believing that both spice and living by the sea make life taste better, Nigel continues to design and develop new products from the family's home base on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Sarah, a nationally known cookbook author, food writer, and enthusiastic mother, serves as Coastal Goods' resident culinarian, devising delicious new recipes with the fruits of her husband's ever-inventive labors.
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The Malabar coast of India for the plumpest peppercorns. Vietnam for the world's most fragrant cinnamon. Grenada for great nutmeg, and the South of France for the crunchiest sea salt.
At Coastal Goods, we travel to ports of call hither and yonder to unearth the most sublime flavors and ingredients to make our sensational seasoned salts and peppers, organic spices, and other artisanal foods.
Our philosophy is to start with the best in order to end up with the very best products. Along the way, we've encountered persnickety customs agents, tremendous five-hour vineyard lunches, and a stubborn sheep that wouldn't grant our Fiat the right of way in Italy. Whether fiasco or good fortune befalls our route, it's always well worth it when we arrive back home to recreate the most unique and memorable tastes from our travels.
You don't need to be a globetrotter to experience the most outstanding flavors the world has to offer. We bring them to you in all their intensity. Tastes and seasonings that will transport you in a flash to faraway locales. Right in the comfort of your own kitchen.
