Oils

🇦🇷Mendoza, Argentina

Aceite de Oliva Mendocino

Argentine olive oil from Mendoza and San Juan, pressed from local olives. Fruity and golden, it is used for cooking, dressings, and drizzling over pizzas and grilled meats.

🇪🇸Extremadura, Spain

Aceite Monterrubio

Aceite Monterrubio is a protected Extremaduran olive oil with a green-gold colour and a peppery finish.

🇬🇷Greece

Agios Mathaios Kerkyras

Ελαιόλαδο Αγίου Μαθαίου Κέρκυρας

An extra-virgin olive oil pressed from the Lianolia variety grown around Agios Mathaios in southern Corfu, grassy and peppery, sold by village mills.

🇬🇷Greece

Agoureleo Chalkidikis

Αγουρέλαιο Χαλκιδικής

An early-harvest oil pressed from unripe (agourelaio) Chalkidiki olives, lower yield but sharply grassy and aromatic, bottled as a premium Greek oil.

🇮🇹Calabria, Italy

Alto Crotonese

Alto Crotonese is a named Italian oil from Province of Crotone, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇬🇷Greece

Apokoronas Chanion Kritis

Ελαιόλαδο Αποκορώνου Χανίων

Olive oil from the Apokoronas district of western Crete, pressed from Koroneiki fruit, green-gold and peppery at the finish.

🇮🇹Italy

Aprutino Pescarese

Aprutino Pescarese is a named Italian oil from Province of Pescara, made from its defining local ingredient and finished with a characteristic texture, aroma, and serving form.

🇲🇦Morocco

Argan Oil

زيت الأركان

Nutty culinary oil pressed from Moroccan argan kernels and used in cooking, dipping, and amlou.

🇧🇷Bahia, Brazil

Azeite de Dendê

Deep-orange palm oil that gives acarajé, vatapá and moqueca their unmistakable Bahian aroma and color.

🇵🇹Northern Portugal, Portugal

Azeite de Trás-os-Montes

Azeite de Trás-os-Montes is a regional Portuguese olive oil from Trás-os-Montes, pressed from local olives for a green, peppery finish.

🇵🇹Alentejo, Portugal

Azeite do Alentejo Interior

Azeite do Alentejo Interior is a regional Portuguese olive oil from Évora District, pressed from local olives for a green, peppery finish.

🇭🇷Croatia

Bračko maslinovo ulje

Bračko maslinovo ulje is PDO extra-virgin olive oil made from Brač’s oblica olives.

🇧🇮Southern Burundi (Rumonge / Bururi), Burundi

Burundian Red Palm Oil

Huile de Palme Rouge

Unrefined red palm oil used as the primary cooking fat in Burundian cuisine; pressed from the fruit of oil palms grown in the southern and western lowlands; gives stews, fried plantains, and renga renga their characteristic red-orange colour and nutty flavour.

🇪🇸Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Campo de Calatrava Olive Oil

Aceite Campo de Calatrava

Aceite Campo de Calatrava is a protected Castile-La Mancha olive oil with a green-gold colour and a peppery finish.

🇪🇸Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Campo de Montiel Olive Oil

Aceite Campo de Montiel

Aceite Campo de Montiel is a protected Castile-La Mancha olive oil with a green-gold colour and a peppery finish.

🇮🇹Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Coppia Ferrarese

Ferrara's twisted bread with two long horns (crostini) and a central braid, made with lard and olive oil. A PDO bread since 2004.

🇪🇸Extremadura, Spain

Gata-Hurdes Olive Oil

Gata Hurdes

Gata Hurdes is protected olive oil from the Sierra de Gata and Las Hurdes area, with a green-gold appearance.

🇭🇷Istria, Croatia

Istrian Olive Oil

Istarsko maslinovo ulje

Protected designation olive oil from Istria, made from indigenous varieties like Istarska bjelica, among world's best oils.

Ingredient

Loudek

Melted and distilled camel hump fat (from daroua, the hump); a white cohering liquid used in lakhlii, tidguit, and general cooking; a traditional preservation medium and cooking fat; commercially produced and sold in 250g packages; unique to Sahrawi and Mauritanian cuisine.

🇪🇸Balearic Islands, Spain

Mallorca Olive Oil

Aceite de Mallorca

Mallorca Olive Oil is a protected Balearic oil with a golden to greenish-yellow colour and a fruity, mildly peppery profile.

🇧🇷Brazil

Manteiga de Garrafa

Clarified butter from Brazil's Northeast, poured from a bottle over carne de sol, beans and cassava.

🇹🇷Turkey

Milas Zeytinyağı

Extra-virgin olive oil carrying Milas' protected-origin status in Muğla, pressed mostly from Memecik olives — green aroma, high polyphenols, a peppery finish.

🇮🇹Italy

Olio Extravergine di Oliva

Italian extra-virgin olive oil, the foundation of Mediterranean cooking. The best is cold-pressed from regional olives (Taggiasca, Frantoio, Coratina).

🇮🇹Liguria, Italy

Oliva Taggiasca

Ligurian small sweet olive, eaten as table olive or pressed for delicate oil. A specialty of the western Riviera.

🇹🇳Tunisia

Samn

سمن

Clarified butter aged with fenugreek and herbs until it turns strong and slightly rancid, used in couscous and celebration dishes.

🇯🇴Jordan

Samneh Baladiyeh

سمنة بلدية

Sheep's butter clarified and often fermented, sold as a dense yellow fat with a strong, cheesy smell.

🇬🇭Ghana

Shea Butter

Nkuto

Nuts of the shea tree boiled, pounded and churned into a pale, nutty cooking fat used across the north.

🇸🇮Slovenian Littoral, Slovenia

Slovenian Istrian Olive Oil

Ekstra deviško oljčno olje Slovenske Istre

Protected extra virgin oil from Istrian belica olives grown on the terraces behind Koper and Izola — grassy, bitter and notably peppery.

🇲🇦Morocco

Smen (Preserved Butter)

سمن

Moroccan butter clarified and aged with salt and aromatics until it develops a strong savoury perfume.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Ghee

Subag

Somali ghee, the clarified butter used across Somali cuisine; canjeero is broken into pieces with subag and sugar; used in cooking oodkac, xalwo, and various dishes; a foundational cooking fat; mixed with tea and sesame oil for children's meals; the ghee that enriches Somali food; found at every market and home.

🇸🇴Somalia

Somali Sesame Oil

Macsaro

Somali sesame oil; used across Somali cuisine; drizzled on muufo with sugar; mixed with tea for children's meals; used in cooking and as a condiment; a foundational oil in Somali kitchens; sesame seeds are grown in the riverine south; the oil that flavors Somali breads; found at every market and home.

🇪🇷Eritrea

Spiced Butter

ንጥር ቅቤ

Ethiopia's sacred spiced clarified butter. Slow-simmered with besobela, koseret, korarima, garlic, ginger and warm spices, then strained until liquid gold. The single ingredient that makes Ethiopian food taste Ethiopian.

🇦🇹Styria, Austria

Styrian Pumpkin Seed Oil

Steirisches Kürbiskernöl

Dark green pumpkin seed oil from Styria with PGI protection, made from shellless pumpkin seeds, distinctive nutty flavor, a legendary Austrian ingredient.

🇸🇮Prekmurje, Slovenia

Styrian Pumpkin Seed Oil

Štajersko prekmursko bučno olje

Almost-black oil pressed from roasted hulless pumpkin seeds, protected by origin, poured over salad, potato and even vanilla ice cream.

🇺🇦Ukraine

Sunflower Oil

Соняшникова олія

Ukraine is the world's top sunflower grower, and its cold-pressed oil is a point of national pride, drizzled raw on bread and salads.

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Tesmi

ጠስሚ

A spiced clarified butter from the Tigray region, similar to niter kibbeh but with its own blend of herbs and spices. Used to enrich tihlo, tigrayan stews and festive breads.