By Adrienne Smith
Mix up your pantry with these 10 small-batch food companies we love. You'll find nut butters, pickles, coffee and granola. All these food companies use local, organic and traceable ingredients when possible.
Added bonus: you can get them all in our webstore. Add anything on a week-by-week basis to your standing weekly package of fresh, local produce.
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Calcutta Kitchens
Founder Aditi makes dinner easy with her Indian simmer sauces. Just slather over meats and oven roast or mix into rice or cooked vegetables. Our webstore features the Bengali coconut cardamon sauce, with warm cardamom and cinnamon flavors.
Katchkie Farm
Katchkie Farm is a year-round organic farming operation tucked onto 60 acres in Columbia County, NY. The farm, owned by the NYC-based catering company Great Performances, sells small-batch tomato-based goods like its fresh salsa and savory tomato jam.
City Saucery
This New York City-based food operation brings a taste of Italy to the tri-state area. City Saucery cooks up tomato-based sauces from the best of the best: New Jersey vine-ripened tomatoes. Each sauce is vegan and gluten free. Plus, they each feature ingredients from NYC- and NJ-based farms, as well as City Saucery's own organic urban farm. Try Nonna's Smokey Sauce, which shines the spotlight on roasted eggplant, tomatoes and fresh parsley.
HerbNZest
HerbNZest is a line of vegan and gluten-free condiments hand crafted in small batches. Primary ingredients, like the spoonable curry ketchup's New Jersey tomatoes, are locally sourced. Each condiment is brimming with unique flavors, from the basil peach raisin chutney to the curry pumpkin pesto.
Sour Puss Pickles
Sour Puss Pickles makes small-batch pickles from right here in Brooklyn. Every ingredient, down to the vinegar, comes from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania farms. Their classic pickle spears are chock full of garlic, dill and peppercorns.
Granola Lab
Brooklyn-based Granola Lab concocts inventive granola flavors with all-natural, preservative-free, often organic ingredients. Pick between their classic elemental formula, gingersnap and Mediterranean mix - the last of which combined sesame seeds, almonds, pistachios, date molasses and apricots.
Bjorn Qorn
The Hudson Valley's Bjorn Qorn pops its small-batch popcorn directly from the sun itself, using low-energy kettles. Each of Bjorn Qorn's kettles can save as much electricity as an entire house on a bright day. The sun-popped kernels are coated in nutritional yeast, which add a savory "umami" flavor.
Better Off Spread
Rosemary, chocolate and peanut butter with a dash of lemon - need we say more? Better Off Spread, started by the couple Jenny and Jonny, uses organic, non-GMO nuts. All organic and vegan spreads are also preservative free and incredibly inventive, as their product page will show you.
Stony Brook Wholehearted Foods
This Finger Lakes-based company makes vegetable oils from roasted squash seeds. No squash is left behind - Stony Brook Wholehearted Foods uses pumpkin, acorn, delicata, butternut, and kabocha (buttercup) squash in its small-batch oils. Each bottle contains locally sourced seeds of 11 squash, gently roasted, expeller pressed and bottled by hand. Grab butternut squash seed oil and roasted pumpkin seed oil in our webstore.
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Brewklyn Grind Coffee Roasters
Brewklyn Grind Coffee Roasters very carefully sources fair trade, single origin, 100% certified Arabica coffee beans. All beans are roasted in small batches in Red Hook, Brooklyn. What's more, Brewklyn Grind just opened up a its first coffee shop in Clinton Hill!
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