Episode 1: Ibiza’s Longest Running Trade
Episode 1: Ibiza’s Longest Running Trade

Welcome to the very first episode…
of my new series, ‘Ibiza with Mike’. In this first episode, we go back to the Phoenician times to when Ibiza’s longest running industry first began, the Ibiza Salt Trade.
Flavouring many of the meals you´ll be munching while on the island, as well as assisting in the preservation of food for hundreds of years, The Ibiza Salt is a special commodity both here, and internationally, to date, still the island’s main export.
I actually captured this footage years ago when I was shooting the Love Food Ibiza youtube series, collecting salt for Tess Prince to cook salt baked sea bass for the Mambo family, but a week later I was in a pretty serious roadside accident, so I am excited to finally be sharing this story with you. Carlos from Los Salineros takes us to back in time on a trip down history lane as we get further information and insight on how the extraction process works, from start to finish, and how things have changed over the centuries.



Special thanks to Pepe Torres for assisting with access to the Ibiza Salt Flats and his friends at Salineras Espanola S.A. Thanks also go out to Tess and Dan Prince, Brett Taylor, and the Mambo Family for the collaboration on our Love Food Ibiza ‘Salt Baked Seabass Episode’, as well as a huge thanks to ALL my family, friends, clients, doctors, physiotherapists, police workers, lawyers and everyone who helped me through my 2015 Salinas Roadside accident recovery.



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A Lucky Life Production
Made by Mike @mikeparryibiza
Film – Present – Script – Interview – Edit – Graphics
Soundtrack:
‘Sun Theory’ – Burudu – Seamless Recordings
‘One day the ocean swept me away’ Stephen Webster
STREAM IT
‘Push’ – Daniel Brooks – Lucky Life Music
In Collaboration with:
Pepe Torres
Salineras Espanola S.A.
Love Food Ibiza
Villa Mercedes
Seamless Recordings
Love Food Ibiza – Salt Baked Seabass Episode Full Episode
People and Places featured:
Mike Parry – Lucky Life
Carlos Tur Zornoza – Salineros Ibiza
Tess Prince – Love Food Ibiza
Alberto Mari & Joan Torres of El Carmen
Eats Everything
Tony at Balafia
Maarten La Bella Verde
Veronica Roig Torres – Can Mussona
Sonny & Mika – Pikes Ibiza
Alan, Christian and Javier Anadon – Cafe Mambo Ibiza
The Ibiza Salt Flats & Salinera Española S.A.
Salinas Ibiza
Villa Mercedes
Footage captured by:
Mike Parry
Vila Mercedes Footage & Edit by:
Brett Taylor
Lucky Life Logo Design Dice Animation:
Rufus White
‘Ibiza With Mike’ Logo Design & Ident Animation
Mike Parry