Italy’s best
The Pranzo team have always been a great source of knowledge and fantastic ingredients, and the new La Bottega di Pranzo focacceria and delicatessen – just over the road from the restaurant – is a must visit. We picked up some of these San Marzano tomatoes, which Pablo tells us are a delicate variety grown in the fertile land around Naples and Salerno, and are the best you can get for pizzas and sauces. £2.98 (400g tin) at La Bottega di Pranzo, www.pranzopizzeria.com
Popular choice
Popular on sharing boards in the enoteca, or to take away and enjoy at home, Silver & Green’s Orange Saffron Aioli and Brindisa’s Oak Smoked Aioli have become essentials in our kitchen. £4.50 and £5.50 respectively at Carruthers & Kent, www.carruthersandkent.com
Perfect match
The Cheese Loft Café is a fantastic place to pick up local produce – and amazing cheese – and a selection of local beers from Firebrick Brewery always goes down well with the Appetite team too. Learn more about pairing the beers with cheese at a collaboration event on November 8. £3.75 (440ml can) at the Cheese Loft Café Northumberland Cheese Company, www.northumberlandcheese.co.uk
Expert pick
Baristocracy’s Alex Forsyth is a tremendous source of coffee knowledge and he visited the washing station in Burundi where this fantastic coffee is purchased from earlier this year. Grown by smallholders and processed at Migoti washing station, it has notes of caramelised apple, poached rose plum and cocoa. £12 per 250g at Baristocracy Coffee, www.baristocracycoffee.com
Honey, honey
A wonderful taste of the North East, this Northumberland Honey comes from Morpeth and is coarse-filtered and not heat-treated, which keeps as much pollen and goodness in each jar as possible. £9.49 at Blagdon Farm Shop, www.theblagdonfarmshop.co.uk
