Food Lovers Guide to Seattle
Washington-Made Pantry Items
Our ideal pantry—stocked entirely with local goods—looks a little something like this.

From top, left to right:
- Smokey Jal Hot Sauce: A hot sauce with kick reinforced with a nice, smoky flavor mile9products.com
- Villa Herada Harissa: A mellow take on the versatile North African condiment, made by a Moroccan-born importer with major input from his mom villajerada.com
- Flying Vessel St. Jude Tuna: Sustainable Pacific albacore tuna bellies packed in white-truffle-infused olive oil tunatuna.com
- Ballard Extracts Vanilla: A seriously upgraded version of the workhorse baking ingredient, in a bottle that would be at home in a cocktail bar ballard-extracts.com
- Ballard Bee Company Special Dark Cream Honey: A dark-hued honey with a figgy, almost caramel taste collected each August when bees have been feeding on Japanese knotweed plants ballardbeecompany.com
- Girl Meets Dirt Preserves: Pears from a century-old Orcas Island orchard, slowly cooked down to a smooth, mega concentrated preserve (pink peppercorn adds spice) girlmeetsdirt.com
- Hot Cakes Peanut Butter Bites: Candied peanut butter, local sea salt, and a coating of organic dark chocolate—in short, it’s a grownup play on a Butterfinger candy bar. getyourhotcakes.com
- Primal Island Cranberry granola: It’s sweet. It’s crunchy. It’s made on Whidbey Island and totally grain free, thus cool with gluten-free and paleo folk. primalisland.com
- Peeks Pantry Sriracha: If you’re going to put sriracha on everything, it might as well be this version from the owners of Little Uncle, made with their own mix of peppers and chilies. peekspantry.com
- Wei Kitchen Shallot Oil: Safflower oil infused with the vivid taste of crispy fried shallots lends Vietnamese gravitas to simple dishes. weikitchen.com
- Oly Kraut: Two of Seattle’s favorite things—fermented foods and kale—in one jar, with a dose of smoked jalapeños to keep them company olykraut.com