Back in stock!!
Even with my terrible picture, you can see how delicious this looks!
Smoked Salmon from Ann Arbor, Michigan
Usually the best things we find for our store are products that don't come looking for us, they are products that we go looking for them. Durham's Tracklements Custom Smoked Provisions is one of those products. In fact, we have been trying for months to sell their salmon in our store. They kept telling us that they cannot keep up with demand at this point and they are not taking on any more accounts. Our begging finally paid off and we our on our 3rd shipment, Supply is limited.
Durham's Tracklements
OUR ORIGINAL HIGHLAND SMOKED SALMON - half pound packages
Inspired by a stay in the Northwest Highlands and Islands of Scotland, a genuine hand-rubbed dry cure of salt with a bit of brown sugar, lightly smoked over our own blend of select hardwoods. Mellow fresh flavor with moist, firm yet buttery texture
Best of the Best in 20 years of Tasting
"unanimous...no comparison" - Marian Burros, The New York Times
Salmon just doesn’t get any better than this.
--Sylvia Rector, Detroit Free Press
More info on Durham's Tracklements
Custom smoked provisions using the finest ingredients available, Since 1992.
We cure and smoke in small batches with the careful, hands-on attention essential to providing outstanding freshness, flavor and texture. For our Salmon Specialties we use only farmed Atlantic salmon raised in the cold waters of the Bay of Fundy, where strong tides assure excellent growing conditions and make the regular use of antibiotics and algaecides unnecessary. Salmon are selected at the optimal size, and flown fresh direct to us each week!
No additives of any kind, always dated for superior fresh flavor. The finest genuinely hand-crafted quality available--anywhere.
$19.99 / half pound (sounds like a lot, but it is not. The smoked salmon you buy at the grocery store is a lesser quality and it is $8.99+ per quarter pound.) Check it the next time you are shopping. *** I have stopped by Schnucks and Deierbergs to check their prices -- see bottom of post.
*** Here is a picture from Schnucks for their Smoked Salmon.
$9.69 for 4oz and $9.29 for 4oz.
7 comments:
Disagree with the price comparison. For example, Costco has a full 1 lb smoked sockeye for $15 (twice the fish for $5 less). TJ's has 1 lb smoked sockeye for $19. Approaching false advertising levels on this one.
Sorry, I guess I was being too general. I was referring to the common brands that you see at Schnucks and Dierbergs. I stopped by tonight and took a picture of the signs and prices to be more specific. See the blog post again. They are $9+ per 4oz. I am sure you can find cheaper smoked Salmon. I don't shop at Costco or TJ's myself so I can not comment on those. There was no intention to be misleading or for false advertising.
The bottom line for me is that I love smoked salmon and to my taste this is the best that I have had and I was just trying to point out that the price was not too expensive compared to some of the other smoked salmon out on the market.
Also, there is a huge difference between wild and farm raised. No organization recommends purchasing farm raised salmon because of the environmental implications. Another concern is the coloring that is added to give grey farm raised salmon that nice, pink color.
Yes, and as it states in Durham's Tracklements business description within this post: "We use only farmed Atlantic Salmon."
I remember reading somewhere that almost all Atlantic Salmon is now farm raised because "wild" Atlantic Salmon is very endangered. I could not find that article, but found on wikipedia that less than 1 percent of Atlantic Salmon sold is wild, the rest is farm raised.
"wild fish make up only 0.5% of the Atlantic salmon available in world fish markets." - wikipedia.
This is why pacific salmon is best. the farm raised fish come up lacking in pretty much every category.
i do wish they said what wood they use to smoke as well. it makes a massive difference on salmon (and trout)
Alder smoked is where its at!
even though we don't agree on this product specifically, i really enjoy your store.
Travis,
The bottom line is always the taste, not where it is from or how it is raised. And taste of course is subjective. I am by no means an expert on Salmon, but I think the taste and texture is amazing on this one.
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