FROM ANATOLIAN FERTILE HEARTLAND True taste from the Mediterranean Since 2007, NAR Gourmet has pursued a single mission: to bring the rich, healthy bounty of handcrafted Turkish foods and ingredients to the world. NAR Gourmet’s trusted farmers and artisans use all-natural, traditional methods to create exceptionally pure, flavorful products, from single estate and single variety olive oils and seasonal preserves to natural vinegars and organic spices. Each one of NAR Gourmet’s offerings captures the essence of Turkey’s fertile, sun-drenched Anatolian heartland, and is a vivid reflection of a particular region of the Mediterranean coast, one of the most ecologically diverse growing regions in the world. Supporting variety and honoring tradition, NAR Gourmet is the gift of true taste from the Mediterranean, bringing wonders of this region to your life. NAR GOURMET IS BROUGHT Saardé Founded by Shenol and Verity TO AUSTRALIA BY Kizek, they had a vision to share the rich heritage of Turkish SAARDÉ AND SOMER SIVRIOGLU textiles, while bringing a fresh and modern take to these Somer Sivrioglu authentic items. Spending the first 25 years of his life in Turkey, where his mother was a successful restaurant Verity and Shenol draw their consultant, chef Sivrioglu grew up around the vibrancy of urban Turkish Cuisine. It is these early inspiration from a combination culinary experiences, combined with his many years in the restaurant and hospitality industry, that of relaxed Mediterranean gave Chef Sivrioglu the inspiration behind Efendy Restaurant, and his journey now continues with and Australian beach side the new venture Anason at Barangaroo. living. Textural luxury, natural materials, traditional techniques and pared back style. 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People of the Ottoman era tasted, loved and flavored this candy to mark the importance of “being together, staying together”. And for almost 500 years now, it is still a cherished sweet. The memory of a single cup of coffee lasts forty years! TURKISH COFFEE This Turkish expression reveals the significance of coffee in Turkish culture. Coffee was first introduced to the world by the Turks. The first coffee beans of the Ottoman capital were brought to Istanbul by Özdemir Pasha, governor of Yemen during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. After mid 1500’s Istanbul became the hub of coffee culture, where Turkish coffee was served in delicate coffee cups following a refined ritual of roasting and grinding. From Istanbul, the habit of coffee, the new passion crossing borders, spread to Europe, then to the rest the world. YEMEN BRAZIL Grown at an altitude of 2500 meters, history and Soon after the establishment of first coffee sophistication is blended in Yemen Coffee, through plantations in Brazil by early 18th century, the use of centuries-old traditional methods that Brazilian coffee started to dominate the achieve a complex flavor with an almost wild twist. Ottoman market, partly because the A product of rare and limited cultivation, Yemeni production was very limited. Arabica “Nar Gourmet-Yemen Coffee” is bound to allure coffee, essential for Turkish coffee, grown in coffee aficionados with its timeless grace. 800-meter altitude in mountainous terrains of Brazil, yields coffeebeans with low acidity with DECAFF a bold, yet smooth body, bearing chocolate and “Nar Gourmet – Decaffeinated Turkish Coffee” is nutty aromas with a sweet finish, ideal for produced without chemicals enabling coffee lovers Turkish coffee. enjoy the full flavor of coffee without the effects of caffeine. In Turkey, drinking tea is an unconditional part of life. TURKISH BLACK TEA Starting from the early days of the Republic, Turkey fast became a tea cultivator ranking 5th in the world. Turkish tea is cultivated with natural methods at the mountainous terrains of Eastern Black Sea region where the use of pesticides becomes unnecessary due to adequate snowfall during winter. Tea grown in the highlands contains strong aromatic compounds, which give the Turkish tea its unique character. Known also by the name of the town of Rize, the epicenter of tea cultivation, Nar Gourmet Rize Turkish Tea is a blend of the selection of the best leaves.Turkish tea is best enjoyed in glasses with a slender waist revealing its aroma and displaying its purest clarity and strikingly scarlet hue. The ruby red tea shining through a tulip shaped glass has thus become a symbol of Turkey and Turkish hospitality. Divine Purity NAR GOURMET OLIVE OIL COLLECTION The 100-percent-cold-pressed, early-harvest extra virgin olive oils in NAR Gourmet’s collection represent the full, extraordinary breadth of the Mediterranean’s long history of olive cultivation. Marked by both subtle and striking flavors and aromas, and made exclusively from hand-selected fruit, NAR Gourmet olive oils are a revelation. Each oil reflects our growers’ intimate knowledge of Turkey’s vast diversity of olive varietals. Award Winning COLD-PRESSED WITHIN SIX HOURS OF HARVEST FROM ONE OF TURKEY’S BEST OLIVE OIL REGIONS EARLY HARVEST The single-varietal prized Ayvalik olives used to make this oil are painstakingly hand-harvested at the earliest sign of ripeness, when their color is darkening from green to purple. The young fruit is cold-pressed within six hours of the harvest in order to preserve its natural flavors, creating an oil with incomparable brightness and intensity. Our Early Harvest oil has garnered awards at multiple juried competitions, including New York International