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Gourmet/General Resources
This section is the home for resources that offer such an extensive variety of products that we cannot place them in any one catagory. Excellent resources for ingredients, wonderful cooked products, unique gifts. Your taste buds will thank you for just looking at these sites! We have combed through resources to find the best for our readers.
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DITALIA - DITALIA began as a wholesaler & distributor of fine Italian foods supplying fine foods. They created an online marketplace for Italian gourmet food specialties, to reach food lovers worldwide. We sampled their Frutto d'Italia Olive Mix, a 5 Lbs tub shipped directly to you from family owned olive groves in Italy. Wonderful green & pink olives with a oil/spice dressing. A standout value.
Chef's Warehouse - A wholesale supplier to chefs, this resource is now available to consumers online! Gourmet ingredients, meats, cheese,grocery, baking, etc.
Chef's Resources - Check out their gourmet foods and ingredients section for several very hard to find ingredients. One example - Japanese Yuzu juice.
Gourmet Foods International - Gourmet food restaurant supplier sells to the public for only slightly above wholesale. They also list recipes for all skill levels, beginner to professional.
Gourmet Food Store - Foods from all over the world. Caviars, truffles, cheese, fresh European butters and creams, pates, fois gras, specialty meats, Squid Ink (!), baby eel, fresh anchovies and more!
Surfas Chef's Paradise - Chef's paradise.
Zingermans - Great selection of extraordinary, traditionally-made foods/food gifts.
Market Hall Foods - While some products are from faraway places like Spain, Italy, France, and Thailand, most products for sale at Market Hall come from Northern California - the finest California merchants all in one location.
Honest Foods - A great selection of gourmet foods, many hard-to-find brands. Many have been hand made, in small batches, from the very finest ingredients. Wholesale Pricing on many items.
Jacksonville Mercantile - A European style market with the world's finest specialty foods, herbs, honeys, mustards, spices and chocolate, even french flower syrups!. The owners, Constance and David Jesser, select each product based on taste, quality and uniqueness.
Fine Food Now - Features McArthur's hams,turkeys, bacon, links, Seyco preserves and pickled watermelon and Brown's Family Syrup and Grafton Village Cheddars and much much more!
Hello Delicious - Gourmet boutique focused on "what's new, what's next"- offers the innovative, unique and artisan of the gourmet world and kitchenware design.
Mackenzie Ltd. - Authentic British specialties foods, 350 gourmet items including hors d'oeuvres, caviar, vinegars, sweets, prepared meats.
1800Gourmet - Fresh pasta, a large array of unique gourmet items, fresh fish, foie gras, mousse, over 1,000 items
Dean & DeLuca - Epicurean treats for cooking, eating and entertaining. They now offer a terrific feature, create your own custom gift basket. First, pick the basket or container you like, then pick a theme for the basket - the software tells you how many "spaces" are available to fill in your basket and shows all the options to fill the basket. Ingenious!
Foodzar - Gourmet food products from companies and everyday people who make unique, award winning gourmet foods.
Le Village - Oasis of french and other gourmet foods; Grocery, butcher, cellar, gifts
Gourmet Outlet of America - Handpicked items from the world's freshest farms.
The Grateful Palate - Artisan made foods and wine; wonderful gifts; they find delicious things and share them.
Fairway Market - A NYC gourmet institution - they offer a variety of baskets for nationwide delivery.
Citarella - Gourmet food store, even meals delivered.
Eli's Manhattan - Eli's Essentials. A collection of the old-fashioned unique pantry staples, baked goods, hearth-baked breads , that are made & sold in the New York stores. Eli's original recipes, developed over 30 years. Meat, poultry and cheese are also available.
Paul's Pantry - Quality southwestern staples.
Food Locker - Hard to find Specialty, regional and international foods. Many unique products and small producers
Savour Gourmet - Purveyors of hand selected fine foods and table accents from around the world.
AG Ferrari - From artisan olive oils and balsamic vinegars, to rustic pastas and sauces, their products are carefully selected to represent the quality and diversity of Italy's 20 regions. Dedicated to finding Italy's best "artigiani," small, artisanal producers . These artisans have generations of commitment and passion to making the best, authentic products possible, using traditional techniques.
Santa Fe School of Cooking - Southwestern foods, spices, chilies.
Napa Style - Gourmet foods/seasoning/oils/cooking tools.
Gourmet Sleuth - Unusual/hard to find cooking tools, ingredients, and ethic specialties.
Farmer's Market Online - Online virtual farmers market.
Savor California - Gourmet specialties from local California sources.
A Gourmet's Pantry - Gourmet food items for the beginner or advanced cook.
Gourmet Food Finder - Large selection of high end gourmet food products that are hard to find in your every day store.
Chefs Resource - Tools, ingredients for the serious home chef.
Earthy Delights - Chef's resource; unusual item.
Fauchon - Leading Paris gourmet company; from sweets to Foie Gras.
The Golden Egg - Exceptional gourmet foods shipped direct from the producers; shop the deli, the butcher, produce and pantry.
Chef's Prep Blends - Bounty Blend Seasoning, Menu Makers & Sauce Preps. They let you turn meats, vegetables, and just a little bit of water into Asian delights, delectable seafood creations, mouth-watering ribs, meat dishes and satisfying soups/ side dishes.
Gourmet @ Home - Gourmet pantry items.
My Brands - Hard to find brands grocery/gourmet.
Pacific Rim Gourmet - Resource for the exotic ingredients of the Pacific; and clay pots, hot pots, rice baskets, mortar & pestles, sushi supplies.
JR Mushrooms & Specialties - Dried mushrooms, spices, extracts, white truffle flour, honey, paste, etc.
Le Village - Epicurean grocery, butcher, wines.
Appetizers to go - Large variety of catering quality appetizers.
Good Wives - Frozen handmade hors d'oeuvres.
The Perfect Bite - Savory, sweet and seasonal hors d'oeuvres that are made by hand from scratch using only the freshest ingredients. Delivered frozen and uncooked in a disposable baking tray. We tasted the caramelized onion and feta at the Fancy Food Show and were very impressed. You can pass yourself off as a five star chef!
CAVIARetc.com - Gourmet foods web boutique featuring specialty foods such as caviar, cheese, foie gras, oils and vinegars, smoked salmon, specialty meats, truffles.
Bien Manger - A french website (can be translated) thousands of authentic French and Italian artisan products.
French Gourmet Store - Regional gourmet products from France.
Amazon - Gourmet Food - Large assortment of foods and food gifts (more than 25,000 listings).
Chef Shop - Searching the world for the best artisan-produced, sustainable foods and ingredients.
Site of the Month
Culinate
For excellent, informative food website - an ongoing conversation about eating well. Articles, cooking tips, interviews, recipes, podcasts, resources, blog posts - will help you put real food into your life. We are big fans of the site!
Editor’s Pick
Effie's Homemade Oatcakes
The "perfect" extra for your tea/coffee. Nutty, crunchy but flaky and not too sweet. We LOVE these cookies. They are extremely addictive.
Featured Products
Redwood Hill Goat Cheese
Their French-style California Crottin with its wonderful rind, and robust, earthy flavor is our favorite. Redwood Hill produces the least processed goat milk products available anywhere. A family farm, they we use a natural approach to animal husbandry to hand craft their award -winning goat milk cheese and yogurt.
AJ Gourmet
Stuffed manzanilla fina olives from Spain, handpicked and stuffed with the finest ingredients, available at AJ Gourmet.
Featured Sites
Jacksonville Mercantile
JacksonvilleMercantile.com is a must see gourmet and specialty foods store. Awesome selection!
Lillie Belle Farms
One of America's Top Chocolate Artisans. Always Organic, Natural and Preservative free.
Chocolate Cravings
Poco Dolce
Their bittersweet tiles are impossible to forget - they are a perfect creation for real chocolate aficionados. Tiny dark chocolate tiles topped with grey salt - each with its own wonderful bits of ingredients such as Aztec chile, ginger, burnt caramel toffee, etc. Their creator Kathy Wiley has master the art of simple chocolate perfection.
