Portland Culinary Alliance

Mark Bitterman, self-styled Selmelier, and his wife, Jennifer Turner, have become stars of the small screen. Computer screen, that is. Bitterman and Turner, who own The Meadow on Mississippi Avenue, are featured in a business video at CNN Money.

Check out this video, “Marketing on a Shoestring,” which shows a happy group of customers sampling ice cream garnished with some of the 50 or so gourmet finishing salts that Bitterman and Turner sell at their charming shop. In the video they talk about how they have built up a clientèle for their wondrous array of salt.

Following their appearance on the CNN Money web site, they were invited to appear on KATU-TV’s “AM-NW.” Here’s a clip from their August 2 television interview.

The couple hosted PCA members in April for a “Salt ‘N’ Pepper” program at which we sampled about half a dozen salts from around the world.

Congratulations to Mark and Jennifer for their well deserved fame.