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Contessa-Delikatessen
We, the guys behind the Contessa-delicatessen, are chefs with many years of experience in the best hotels and restaurants around the world, to get you the best products from all parts of this beautiful planet. We try to bring this experience right to your door step.
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Get inspired by our prime selected productsOil
Olive oil is the synonym for a healthy life, healthy cooking and for general well being. Our passion for exquisite olive oils come from respecting nature, farming, cultivation and enjoying this unique natural product.
Vinegar
The making of vinegar may be as old as alcoholic brewing with the first documented evidence of vinegar making and use was by the ancient Babylonians around 3000 BC. They primarily used it for medical purposes. The Greeks and Romans frequently used vinegars made from wine while the Spartans had vinegar as a part of their traditional black bean soup.
The most common vinegar today might be the balsamic vinegar which began its evolution in Italy in the county of Modena, though it would not become widely known until the Napoleonic Wars after being sold abroad by French troops.
Louis Pasteur made the decisive discovery that a special type of bacteria, later known as acetic acid bacteria, were the agents of fermentation for vinegar production. This allowed the mass production of cheap vinegar around the world.
Coffee
Coffee has been around form the 12th century and is one of the world’s most consumed hot beverages. The Arabica and Robusta beans are the most common making 99% of the traded coffee worldwide. Ethiopia was the cradle of the coffee we know today, but owing it to corruption, clan wars, etc. Ethiopia does not make 5% of the worlds production of coffee.
Spread, sauces and dips
Spreads are available in all kinds of styles, from a spicy relish to savoury chutneys and as the sweet fruity breakfast treat as jams and marmalades. Since the roman empire, spreads have been created for all kinds of events and to conserve fruits, vegetables, and meats for long lasting periods adding Acids, sugars or oil.
Distilled/spirits
Alcohol has always been a product with a history. Used as medicine, drugs, cleaning and social status, we have a variety of exclusive brands which are not available in general stores.
Spices
Spices and commonly pure plant based dried seeds, leaves or roots or mixtures of these blended with added sugars, salts and other ingredients like smoke.
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The guys behind the Contessa-delicatessen
How it all started…
The idea to this platform started a long time back, before the internet was part of our lives in 1991, after a visit in South Africa. We tasted plums and olives from a private farm called “Friesland” owned by a german sailing enthusiast. We never found that special taste again and there it was, the idea of getting these little exclusive products from around the globe.
Years passed, jobs came and went but friendships stayed and evolved. Today we have a superb network of top chefs all experts in their fields on business, working a head chefs in 5 star hotels, catering companies or even the high end super yacht industry. After a great gig in the south of france in 2018, we decided to start up this challenge in bringing the world on tastes to you. We hope you will enjoy what we have to offer.
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