From the usual ones to the rarest of ingredients. Fresh, exotic, tempting, welcoming. Enter Gourmet City, and a vast spread of fresh vegetables, olive oils, and a salad counter greet you. Breads like Swedish Limpa Rye, Astrd Dinner Rolls, Russian Roll Bread, Farmers’ Rye Rings, Swedish Jagger Bread, Ciabatta, French Palmiers, phew! Prepare to be perplexed as the range offers products from some of the best brands in the world. Oils from olive to sesame to organic virgin sunflower, macadamia to the ones infused by lemon and chilli, and what not by Rafael Salqado and Borges, chutneys and masalas and pastes. Good ingredients make cooking easy and fun. There are jars and jars of sauces and seasonings that help you do just that. Jars full of red chillies in white wine vinegar, carmelised red onions, garlic in white wine vinegar, and similar products. Don’t blame yourself if you are tempted to you pick each and everyone of them.
The goodies just get better as you go deeper. Le Cordon Bleu vinegars in sherry, balsamic from Modena, flavours like raspberry and Borges champagne style vinegar, and other wine vinegars like garlic, honey and tarragon. African sauces like mint jelly, apple sauce with calvados, apple sauce with cider and Tewkesbury mustard, salad dressings like turmeric lemon grass, mango and chilli, blue cheese and chive are all an innovators’ delight. Bouquets of herbs with fascinating combinations like thyme, marjoram, parsley and bay leaves; fennel seeds, aniseed, elderflower, chervil, chives and parsley; there are handfuls of garlic and rosemary, sea salt and seaweed, and tarragon and pepper. We One’s creativity is only enhanced with these flavourful combinations. But there’s much more to the store. The corn flakes are not just Kelloggs, there’s Gut and Gerne, Waitrose, there are oat flakes, dateflakes and couscous, Weetabix whole grain cereal, Kohinoor’s Brown Basmati rice- a dieter’s paradise. Even the jams are low fat. They’re made with whole fruits and come in flavours like rose petals, apricot and sliced almonds from a brand called Les Confitures ‘a l’ Ancienne, and of course fruit jams in flavours like strawberries and buckwheat. The list goes on. Come with your list of world food – you are sure to find it here.
