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We at ChefShop are committed to finding and offering the best rare ingredients in the world. Our small batch products are made by personally selected local and international artisans, dedicated to preserving and sometimes reinventing food traditions!

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Sweet Washington Cherries

We can't wait for summertime fruit! Here in Washington, cherries are at the heart of our local farmers' markets all through July. At Chefshop, we work with multiple generations of the Stennes Family Farms in Eastern Washington to bring you the most delicious cherries anywhere: just-in-time, picked-at-their-peak, sweet, crisp and juicy, - everything a cherry should be.

Every year we wait impatiently for the cherries to arrive at the warehouse. With great anticipation, we open the box for a first peek at all those impeccable red beauties, each with its stem intact.

We can hardly wait to taste, we talk about the way the cherry crunches, how much juice spurts out when our teeth break through the skin, and how unbelievably sweet and fresh they are.

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The Secret Ingredient Koji

It can transform your food! - Bought some steak, not a great cut, but not a bad one. I koji'fied it for 2 days in a Ziplock bag. The result? It was delicious, with just a hint of sweetness. What you noticed right off and all the way through was how soft it was. We are eating a lot less meat these days, so when we do, I really want it to be special and koji does the job with no work!

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Lummi Island Wild Albacore Canned Tuna

" This was hands-down one of the best canned tunas I’ve ever had and it’s not even oil-packed! I was expecting dry and dense, as water-packed tuna often is. This was so flavorful, moist and delicious on its own that I had it straight from the can, with just a small blast of lemon juice. It easily rivals any of the fancy Italian and Spanish olive oil-packed tuna brands. It’s the perfect tuna to build a Salade Niçoise around!!! "
-- Tina Ujlaki - James Beard Foundation's Editor of the Year award -Food & Wine Magazine

Yamaki Jozo Organic Shoyu - Soy Sauce

We are very excited to introduce organic Shoyu (SHOW-yu) from Yamaki Jozo. Soy sauce is like great wine or olive oil, with many, many complex flavor profiles. And not all soy sauce is created equally.

Yamaki Jozo Shoyu was founded in 1902 in Saitama Prefecture, about 2-1/2 hours by train from Ueno station in Tokyo. They have three main rules they live by: living and working in the natural environment; using only traceable ingredients grown in Japan; and using traditional manufacturing methods.

Russian Dressing Recipe

There are so many variations of this recipe, including the original from Nashua, New Hampshire – a debatable food fact - which included caviar.

Mix it up and adjust it to your taste buds. We include some of the additions that are common. The key here is that it is fast and wicked easy to make, and really hard to screw up... finding great corned beef to make a Reuben is much harder!

NeoCocoa Black Sesame Seed Toffee Brittle

Sometimes you need a nice treat. This week, I have been eating some hard, early season strawberries with vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, and our secret topping mix...a lot of calories to consume.

And that is where this toffee brittle comes in; it is my go-to treat to give away and share with friends. This works well because I believe in the "one for you, one for me" rule.

Karuna Chocolate Organic Belize Dark 70-Percent Bar with Raspberries

International Chocolate Awards 2019: European Bronze Award
Academy of Chocolate Awards 2019 : Silver Award

It's hard to find a good dark bar with raspberries, this one from Karuna succeeds. The bright red raspberries are embedded within the 70% Belizian dark chocolate. The chocolate gives a nice earthy backdrop to the lively raspberries; the natural citrus notes meld nicely with the intense freeze-dried raspberry flavor and the raspberry seeds add a little crunch to the creamy texture of the chocolate.

Love this cocoa powder. Thanks - in Hawaiian: Mahalo!

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At Chefshop.com we search the world to find the best of the best, from Baking Chocolate to Estate Grown first press Extra Virgin Olive Oils. We search the world to find and source hard-to-find foods created by family owned producers, like ourselves, to share with you.

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