Maldon sea salt is cultivated in Essex, England. A favorite of British chefs and cooks everywhere, it has a crisp, bright taste and large, jagged pyramid-shaped crystals that make it a nice finishing salt.

Legend has it that salt has been cultivated on the British coast since Roman times and the first evidence of salt manufacturing in Essex dates back to the 11th century. But today just one salt-panning company remains, Maldon Crystal Salt Company. Believed to be located on the site of a medieval salt factory, it has been producing the salt for more than 200 years.