Add a little something sweet and smoky to your day. All photos courtesy of Many Kitchens.
There are pantries all over the country filled with the kind of small-batch, handmade, locally procured foodstuffs Valentina Rice has been after for years. The founder of Many Kitchens, an online marketplace showcasing specialty jams, chutneys, teas, truffles, breads, bitters and biscuits, celebrates the best of American tinkering in the kitchen. In her new book, Recipes from Many Kitchens, Rice curated recipes from some of her favorite makers, and it reads like a global feast.
One of the inspirations for starting Many Kitchens was beach plum jam. A deliciously distinctive sweet jam with just the right hint of tart that I have never found outside Cape Cod. It made me wonder what other pockets of gastronomic delicacies are hiding around the country. I started filling my cupboards with the best I could find and rounded up 8 incredible treats from local cooks and creators around the country.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
The best of Britain in the most unlikely of places. My favorite treats from my childhood in England are being made in Tucson, Arizona, by expert baker Wendy Taylor of The British Baking Company.
In charming Cornwall, Connecticut, I met the equally charming bow-tied David Davis making the most delectable of sweet and savory jams — I am never without the vidalia onion variety.
Tony Bonomolo of Lafayette, Louisiana, infuses raw sugar with a wonderfully unique flavor by smoking it over pecan shells. Try it in your coffee or atop a creme brûlée. You’ll be hooked.
In a quiet corner of the Catskills, Claire Marin produces the finest raw honey and then infuses it to enhance other items, like a ridiculously smooth whiskey and outrageously delicious chocolate truffles.
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