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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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Jacksonville Mercantile
The Jacksonville Mercantile is a food lover's paradise. A specialty and gourmet market displaying one of the world's finest selections of gourmet foods and gifts. Find vanilla and other unique extracts, olive oil, vinegar, avocado oil, saffron, sea salt, pepper, balsamic, herbs, honey, mustard, dipping sauce, jams and jelly and much more. The quality and variety of their specialty products is a chef's dream. Visit them today...
Epicure Pantry - Olivier Wittmann is bringing to consumers many of the same products that he imports for top chefs around the country. Wittmann has developed relationships with artisanal producers all over Europe, Asia and the United States. Condiments, oils, vinegar's, spices, speciality items. One example are french preserves by master Christine Ferber - she is renowned for her confitures!
Jacksonville Mercantile - A European style market with the world's finest specialty foods, herbs, honeys, mustard, spices and chocolate, even french flower syrups!. The owners, Constance and David Jesser, select each product based on taste, quality and uniqueness. Wonderful people, great products.
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.
Savor California - Gourmet specialties from local California sources. Jane only selects the very best of California for this excellent website
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.
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! Goodwives homemade appetizers and much more! Excellent resource for gifts and stocking your own kitchen.
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!
Culinary District - They are stocked with thousands of items for the professional chef or home use for food enthusiasts. You will find with imported and domestic food items, high quality ingredients, commercial cookware, equipment, cutlery, specialty tools, china and glass ware, table top, packaging for food products, bakeware & ideas for using all of these items. Culinary District will be offering all of the items sold at Surfas Restaurant Supply and Gourmet Food in Culver City,California.
Chef Shop - They Search the world for the best artisan-produced, sustainable foods and ingredients.
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.
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.
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.
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). We list this only because of the wide array of items offered only- you must determined if quality/company is worth ordering from. They pay amazon to be listed so quality is not a given.
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TasteSpotting
A visual pot luck! If you love food, you will be mesmerized by this website. The user community submits images/links from around the web and the editorial team reviews the submissions. What finally gets served up on the site is a beautifully refined set of the community's contributions. You will spend hours on this site!
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Elikan Harvest Olive Oil
3 Greek-American sisters share olive oil from their family's farm in southern Greece! Produced in limited quantities using traditional artisanal farming methods. We thoroughly enjoyed the delicious, peppery (wonderful aroma) and taste of this special olive oil.
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