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Bringing Salt Back to Salt City: Syracuse Salt Company on History, Harvesting, and Flavor-Infused Salts Host Noah Chrysler interviews David and Libby of Syracuse Salt Company, a family business started 11 years ago that harvests brine from a ~280–300-foot well in Syracuse, evaporates it into flake salt, and infuses flavors to help “bring salt back to the Salt City.” They explain Syracuse’s salt-industry peak from the 1700s through about 1920 and its decline due to railroads, coastal production, and reduced Erie Canal use; the local brine is about three times saltier than the ocean and originates from an ancient sea. They describe filtering, settling out iron, evaporation tables, drying racks, sifting for grain size, and zero-waste practices. They compare their salt to iodized table salt, discuss finishing salts and cooking uses, do a taste test, and highlight collaborations (Hobey Honey salted honey, Speech Candy brittles/chocolates, Syracuse University “Cuse” salts) plus local sourcing. They share where to buy (local Wegmans, shops, online), invite pickle collaborators via info@syracusesaltco.com, and mention restaurants using their salt. 00:00 Meet Syracuse Salt Co 00:35 Why Syracuse Is Salt City 01:59 Ancient Brine Underground 02:52 Drilling Their Own Well 03:30 Old vs New Saltmaking 05:17 From Brine to Flakes 06:46 Batch Variations and Texture 08:44 Flavored Salts and Cooking 09:02 Table Salt vs Local Salt 11:18 Finishing Salt Tips 13:30 Pickle Salt and Partnerships 17:10 Collabs Honey Candy and SU 20:08 Taste Test Cinnamon Brittle 20:44 Peanut Brittle Reactions 21:22 Sampling Flake Salt Basics 21:47 Why Flake Beats Table Salt 22:53 Pinch of Umami Tasting 23:54 Lime Salt and Pairings 25:03 Cuse Salts Orange Chipotle 27:42 Cardamom Salt Uses 29:32 Where to Buy and Visit 32:09 Restaurants Using Their Salt 35:08 Wrap Up and Thanks
Bert the Shirt has been selling vintage Syracuse gear since 2019. One of his favorite parts of the job is seeing people wearing his finds around town. Scholars & Champs is now at 742 S Crouse Ave, in the parking lot behind Faegan’s. #GoodNewsYork #Syracuse More
David explains why not all salt is created equal. He compares heavily processed table salt, loaded with iodine and anti-caking agents, to a high-quality sea salt that delivers better flavor with less sodium. While iodine fortification made sense decades ago, modern diets already include enough of it year-round. Using better ingredients means better taste and […] More
Can you identify every costume? Kids and families dressed up alongside their birds for this year’s New York State Fair Youth Poultry Costume Contest. Lady Liberty won best overall, but who would have gotten your vote? #GoodNewsYork #NYSFair More
David reveals that if you drill deep enough in Syracuse, you will hit an aquifer full of saltwater. It is a leftover from a massive ancient ocean that stretched from Albany to Michigan and down to West Virginia, roughly 700 million years ago. The salt from that prehistoric body of water is still sitting underground […] More
Did you know Syracuse was once one of the largest salt producers in the entire country? David breaks down the history of how the city earned its "Salt City" nickname, from the booming salt industry of the 1700s all the way through its decline around 1920. As railroads replaced the Erie Canal and coastal salt […] More
GNY EP.204 | feat. Syracuse Salt Co. Did you know Syracuse sits on top of a 700-million-year-old ocean? In this episode of Good News York, host Noah Chrysler sits down with David and Libby from Syracuse Salt Company, a father-daughter business that’s bringing salt production back to the Salt City after nearly a century. David […] More
Does your business actually need more content—or is “we need more content” covering up a bigger problem? In the first episode of the Click Stream Studios Podcast, Danny Tripodi puts Noah Chrysler in the hot seat for a conversation about what businesses should actually be trying to accomplish with their content. They dig into why […] More
300,000 cookies? We made a batch of fresh with the incredible Bake Lab by @thesweetpraxis #freshcookies #thebakelab #thesweetpraxis #nysfair More
Don’t be mad, you know it’s true ♥️ #peacheysdonuts #nysfair More
Did you get your cup of milk this year? The NYS Fair Milk Bar still sells a cup for just 25 cents, and they serve about 350,000 of them during the fair. Chocolate is the clear favorite, outselling white milk about three to one. #GoodNewsYork #NYSFair More
Expensive cameras won’t save boring content—and “we’ll fix it in post” might be some of the most dangerous words you can say on a video shoot. In Episode 2 of the Click Stream Studios Podcast, Noah Chrysler turns the tables and puts Danny Tripodi in the hot seat to unpack what he’s learned from years […] More
Alison Altafi walks through her yarn-making process from start to finish. It begins with raw fiber from a sheep, which gets cleaned and processed through a drum carder to align everything in one direction. The resulting sheet is then fed into a spinning wheel for a two-pass process that produces a plied, bubbly yarn with […] More
We found the youngest maple expert at @NYMaple at @The Great NYS Fair. Thank you to Scarlet and her family at @walters family sugar house. Visit the incredible stand with local vendors and grab a maple soft serve while you’re at it. More
The New York State Fair has corgi racing now. Run by a fifth-generation circus family, The Fast and the Furriest Corgi Races is the first traveling corgi race show in the country. Catch the free show inside the Exposition Center every day at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. through Labor Day. #NYSFair #Corgi […] More
Election season has followed New Yorkers all the way to the New York State Fair. Harvey’s Garden is asking fairgoers to choose between two wine slushies: Betty Blueberry, the all-American candidate, and Peter Pickle, a revolutionary who wants pickles to take over the Fair. Voting runs through September 7 at the Empire Room, with the […] More
Noah Chrysler and Alison Altafi discuss the underground art scene in Syracuse, a community that thrives on exclusivity and caters to a select audience. Alison recalls her first time showing work at one of their events and questioning whether she was cool enough to be there. They agree: the scene is special and the people […] More
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