for globe trotting groceries

Meal prep with a difference!

Kiwi Café proprietor Lynda Flinn also enjoys stocking very special globe trotting ingredients for sale.

New Zealand grows
a "clean, green pedigree"

New Zealand honey and solar-harvested New Zealand Pacific sea salt is a source of pride to the restaurateur. "It's so clean and unpolluted in New Zealand, there's very little spraying and a heavy emphasis in organically grown produce," she says.

New Zealand's primary produce has a reputation for excellence and is in demand the world over. Internationally, consumers have declared their preference for produce with a "clean, green" pedigree.

Honey New Zealand offers a unique range of products 100% pure with active components due to naturally occurring high levels of health- giving properties found in native plants and trees.

New Zealand produces the highest rating UMF Manuka honeys in the world which can assist your body against harmful bacteria.  Propolis products have significant levels of bioflavanoids which boost the immune system. New Zealand Bee Pollen is an excellent, nutritious food source. It contains all the amino acids, minerals and almost all vitamins essential for human nutrition.

Honey New Zealand combines the health benefits of Bee Venom with the goodness of other natural products. Their creamy-white Royal Jelly has extraordinary food value. In the bee-hive, Royal Jelly is the queen bee's only source of food. To produce more bees, she must be in the best of health.

New Zealand's Marlborough province is renowned for sunshine and strong, drying Nor'Westerlies.

The same region where Pacific's Natural and Flaky salt is harvested, dried and packaged, is also famous for its award-winning Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay white wines.

Pacific Natural Sea Salt is harvested from the deep clear waters of the great southern oceans sweeping between New Zealand's North and South Islands and into a solar salt field. At the end of each summer, the Pacific Natural Sea Salt is gathered to maintain its fine balance of minerals.

Tea Forté

Our teas are the highest quality, all natural, whole leaf teas. With our herbal blend, we use fresh harvested rough-cut herbs. Our infusers are filled at the tea gardens in Asia, and sealed for freshness. We are confident the flavors you experience with Tea Forté will surpass all other teas you have tasted.

Our unique Silken-Tea-Infusers are individually hand crafted, and provide the world's finest method to brew a cup of tea. The open weave of the fabric allows the water to flow freely around the teas, allowing the tea leaves to unfurl and the flavors to mingle in the large open form of the infuser. This design allows the subtle flavors of our fine teas to infuse into the water.

It's like brewing a pot of tea in your cup!

Dagoba Organic Chocolate

Dagoba is dedicated to full circle sustainability: crafting exquisite chocolate that blends quality, ecology, farmer equity and community. They seek fine flavor, organic and sustainably grown cacao through direct, equitable partnerships and produce small batches with great care. This approach has garnered high regards:

• Food & Wine - 2005 Tastemaker Award
• EPA - Green Power Leadership Award "World's Best Chocolate"
• "Best Dark Chocolate" - SF Chronicle
• "Best Organic Bars" - Food & Wine

Pasta pleasure

Since 1887, bronze drawn and slowly dried Dececco pasta has been appreciated for its full taste, rough texture and al dente dependability. Today, Dececco continues their love for tradition while improving their production technologies.

Mackays marmalades & preserves

Since 1938, this family business has turned out high quality preserves, marmalades and curds. The last marmalade producer from the Dundee area, 'The Home of Marmalade,' they deliver more varieties of orange marmalade than any other manufacturer.

Their preserves are made using only Scottish soft fruit. MacKays is the largest producer in Europe still using traditional copper bottomed open pans and slow boiling method.

In 2004, Mackays' outstanding achievement in international trade earned them a Queen's Award for Enterprise. Their impressive track record at home and particularly overseas has been built by creating strong brands in tune with consumers' desires. All products are 100 per cent natural and acceptable to all known world markets.

San Pellegrino lingering at tables for over 100 years

First discovered in the Alps in the 13th century, the waters from the town of San Pellegrino Terme were deemed excellent for the health of body and spirit. From its first analysis in 1782, San Pellegrino Sparkling Mineral Water has remained remarkably pure and consistent. It contains 14 important minerals and trace elements to keep body fit and skin glowing.

The town of San Pellegrino in the mountains north of Milan was first made famous by quenching the thirst of Leonardo da Vinci. S.Pellegrino's sources are three deep springs which emerge at 69.8 degrees F. The waters come from an aquifer 1,300 feet below the surface, where limestone and volcanic rocks impart unique minerals and trace elements.

Essential Indian spices

When preparing Indian food, there are the basic spices which go into most dishes. In a pot, add ghee (clarified butter), cumin seeds or mustard seeds and asafetida till they sizzle, then red chili powder, coriander seeds and turmeric powder.  Next come the vegetables and steam.

Cumin seeds (jeera, jeeragam, jilakara, black cumin, kala jeera, royal cumin, shah jeera) is mainly used in North India for its strong, but pleasing flavour, and for digesting foods.  They can be fried whole in oil, or ground, or roasted and ground, or ground and then roasted, all with different results.

Turmeric (haldi), a basic Indian spice is mainly used for its medicinal properties, and a lovely color it gives to dishes.

Coriander seeds (dhaniya) is basic Indian spice is used for its fresh, cooling and soothing taste.

Black mustard seeds are popular in South and West India instead of, or along with, cumin seeds for its strong, but very pleasing, flavor and assistance in digesting foods.

Asafetida (hing, heeng) is a basic Indian spice is used as a digestive and for its strong sulfur taste on the lines of garlic.