The Deli Dish

Category: Pantry Staples

  • Tunisian Pimento Cheese Recipe

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Handmade Tunisian Harissa combined with handcrafted Creamery Cream Cheese Fifteen years or so ago, we did a T-shirt at the Roadhouse to promote our then-new Pimento … Continued

  • Orange Blossom Honey from Mieli Thun

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Creamy, aromatic, and an amazing way to start your new year Back in 1938, when written recipes for Key Lime Pie were just starting to appear … Continued

  • Balsamic Vinegar: A Buying Guide

    Ever wandered around the Deli and wondered what food could possibly be so valuable that it would be locked inside that little glassed off section of shelving near the olive … Continued

  • Kamā sumac from Jordan

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews Kamā gets us world-class sumac The beautifully aromatic Za’atar spice blend we get from Jumana Jacir and her team at Kamā working at the artisan workshop … Continued

  • Enzo Olive Oil at the Deli

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A fourth-generation farmer works to bring excellent oil from Fresno to market The story of the Enzo Olive Company begins back in 1914, when Vincenzo Ricchiuti … Continued

  • Introducing Marqués de Valdueza

    It’s not every day you get to buy a craft product from a family business in Spain that started up a thousand years ago. Their farmland is known as the … Continued

  • Sesame Seeds from Northern Greece

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A tiny ingredient makes the leap to star status As I have found far more times than I can count over the last forty years, I … Continued

  • Introducing Regalis Foods

    Artisanal food purveyors of some of our favorite Spanish brands We love to stock our shelves with small producers who are creating superior products, but it’s not always easy to … Continued

  • Fire Parched Wild Rice

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A Salute to Really Wild Wild Rice If you’ve never tried really wild wild rice–I mean the real thing, not the commercial replica—you’re in for a revelatory … Continued

  • Za’atar Spice Blend from Jordan

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A wonderfully aromatic new arrival from a creative women-powered company My initial experience of za’atar came when I visited Jerusalem for the first time many decades … Continued

  • Cauliflower and Harissa Salad

    Excerpt from Ari’s Top 5 enews A terrific taste of Tunisia to make at home Local heirloom tomato season is coming to an end for 2022, but cauliflower is still going strong! … Continued