Every maker we can name.
Twenty-six names, and an honest account of how well we know each one.
This is the working index behind the one rule: if we can’t say who made it, it doesn’t go in the box. Some of these we buy from directly — the farm, the brewery, the chocolate maker. Some reach us through specialists whose whole job is knowing a country’s producers. And some are on our shelves under their own name with the route between us and them not yet confirmed in writing. All three are marked, so you can tell which is which.
How to read this list.
Knowing where food comes from isn’t one thing, it’s four — and the fourth is admitting you don’t know yet. We’d rather show you which of the four each name is than flatten them all into the same word.
Bought direct
We buy from the people who make it. The name on the jar is the name we deal with.
Through a specialist
We buy from a house that knows a country’s producers far better than we do. We name the house; what the label says varies with the line.
Route not confirmed
This is the name the food is on our shelves under. Whether that’s who makes it or who it reaches us through isn’t confirmed in writing, so we don’t claim either.
Not yet named
Some of the shelf isn’t traced to a person yet. It stays blank here until it is.
Makers we buy from
Ten names · bought direct-
01
Lymn Bank Farm
CheeseThe vintage English cheddar, and the small flavoured barrels that sit beside it — cranberry, smoked, garden herbs and garlic, hot and garlic.
On the shelfFinest Vintage English Cheddar 200g·Cranberry Cheddar Cheese Barrel 145g·Caramelised Onion Cheddar 200g·Red Leicester 190g
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02
Cornish Charcuterie
Pâté & rillettesThe pâtés and rillettes, every one of them in a 125g pot — the size a board actually finishes rather than puts back in the fridge.
On the shelfChicken Liver Pâté with Port 125g·Duck Rillette with Cranberries & Grand Marnier 125g·Salmon Pâté with Lemon 125g·Mushroom Pâté with Chilli & Coriander 125g
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03
Bray Cured
CharcuterieSalami, bresaola and air-dried loin in 60g slices for a board, and the 250g saucisson for when someone is going to cut it at the table.
On the shelfBritish Charcuterie Sharing Board 60g·Cacao Spiced Venison Bresaola 60g·Air-dried Pork Loin Lomo 60g·Wild Garlic Saucisson 250g
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04
Lost Pier
BeerThe beer end of the bottle shelf. A pale at 3.4% for a Tuesday, an IPA at 7.8% for a birthday, and most of the ground in between.
On the shelfBeach Session IPA 4% 330ml·Juicy Buoy 4.8% 440ml·Lost Pier Paddleboarder Pale 3.4% 330ml·Fruit Machine IPA 5.5% 440ml
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05
Cocoa Loco
ChocolateOrganic bars — marbled, fruit and nut, white with lemon drizzle — and the moulded owls, pigs and chicks that go into the lighter boxes.
On the shelfCocoa Loco Organic Fruit & Nut Milk Chocolate 100g·Cocoa Loco Organic White Chocolate Lemon Drizzle Bar 100g·Cocoa Loco Organic Dark Chocolate Mango 100g·Dark Chocolate Love Hearts 100g
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06
Fudge Kitchen
FudgeFour flavours of fudge slider, 63g each. The small last thing that goes in when a box is nearly right and wants one more.
On the shelfClotted Cream Fudge Trio Slider 63g·Sea Salted Caramel Fudge Trio Slider 63g·Double Chocolate Fudge Trio Slider 63g·Strawberries & Cream Fudge Trio Slider 63g
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07
Forager
PreservesThe chutneys and the jams — including one named after the job it does, and a Seville marmalade that carries the breakfast end of a hamper on its own.
On the shelfCheeseboard Chutney·Sticky Fig Chutney·Chilli Jam·Sevilla Orange Marmalade
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08
Friary Drinks
SpiritsGin and vodka liqueurs in 200ml, gins in 100ml for a box that shouldn’t rattle, and the ready-made martinis — espresso and passionfruit.
On the shelfEspresso Martini 200ml·Elderflower Gin Liqueur 200ml·Sloe Gin Liqueur 200ml·Somerset Cider Apple Gin 100ml
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09
Cartwright & Butler
For the boardThe savoury end — wafers, seeded flatbreads, cheese straws — and the shortbread and thins that make a hamper feel like it has an afternoon in it as well as an evening.
On the shelfSea Salt & Pepper Savoury Wafers 75g·Olive & Garlic Seeded Flatbread Crackers 130g·Cheddar Cheese Straws 100g·Demerara Shortbread Rounds 150g
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10
The Fine Cheese Co.
Cheese & boardA good part of the cheese counter, and the olive oil crackers built to go under it — fig and honey, rosemary, walnut, chilli. Also the quince and the figs for cheese, which is the detail people notice.
On the shelfFig, Honey and Extra Virgin Olive Oil Crackers 125g·English Farmhouse Cheddar 200g·Potted Blue Stilton 100g·Membrillo Quince for Cheese 170g
Specialists we buy through
Five names · through a specialist-
11
Brindisa
SpainThe Spanish shelf, more or less entire: the Ibérico chorizo, the Manchego, the Picos blue, the Perello olives — and the Ship’s crackers that end up under all of it.
On the shelfIbérico Bellota Chorizo 100g·Parra Jimenez Organic Manchego 200g·Picos Blue 100g·Savoury Ship’s Olive Oil Crackers 220g
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12
Salento
ItalyThe Italian antipasti. Taralli with olive oil or wild fennel, artichoke hearts from Puglia, semi-dry tomatoes, and the cantucci for the end of it.
On the shelfTaralli Tradizionale with Extra Virgin Olive Oil 250g·Pate di Carciofi, Cream of Artichokes 100g·Semi-Dry Sunkissed Tomatoes 280g·Cantucci al Cioccolato, Biscuits with Chocolate 200g
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13
The Greek Olive Company
GreeceThree lines only, and all three are olives: a six-mix, one stuffed with sundried tomato, and one with piri piri peppers in it for the people who want that.
On the shelfSix Mix Olives 220g·Olives Stuffed with Sundried Tomato 220g·Howlin’ Hot Olives Stuffed with Piri Piri Peppers 220g
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14
Moreno
WineThe wine. Spanish and Italian bottles for the most part, under their own estate names rather than ours — plus the Prosecco, and a Chablis for the boxes that ask for one.
On the shelfMuriel Crianza Rioja, 75cl·Mosaica Prosecco Brut, 75cl·Fontaine Goby Chablis, 75cl·Conde De Los Andes Tinto, 75cl
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15
Curd & Cure
NibblesThe small savoury things that fill the gaps in a box: Kent crisps, snacking pickles, and a 30g snackalami that is exactly what it sounds like.
On the shelfSea Salt Kent Crisps 40g·Ashmore Cheese & Onion Kent Crisps 40g·Snacking Pickles 40g·Snackalami ‘Classic’ 30g
On our shelves, route not confirmed
Eleven names · route not confirmedEleven names that are genuinely on our shelves — but which of the two routes above each one takes, we haven’t confirmed in writing. So we don’t say it. They move up when someone here can put their name to it, and not before.
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16
Hogg Norton
LiqueursFive liqueurs and nothing else, 50ml each — limoncello, coffee, raspberry, passion fruit, sour cherry. The size that goes in a box without deciding the whole box.
On the shelfLimoncello Liqueur 50ml·Coffee Liqueur 50ml·Sour Cherry Liqueur 50ml·Passion Fruit Liqueur 50ml
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17
Sauce Shop
Hot sauceThe hot end of the store cupboard — a buffalo sauce, a honey sriracha drizzle, a scotch bonnet jam — and one simmer sauce, for the person who’d rather cook with it than dip in it.
On the shelfSauce Shop Buffalo Hot Sauce 160g·Sauce Shop Honey Sriracha Drizzle 190g·Scotch Bonnet Chilli Jam 240g·Spicy Marinara Simmer Sauce 360g
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18
The Cornish Jar
PreservesThree jars, and all three of them are hot: a chilli jam, a hot garlic chutney, and a pineapple and jalapeño that does more to a cheddar than it sounds like it will.
On the shelfCornish Jar Chilli Jam 225g·Cornish Jar Hot Garlic Chutney 210g·Cornish Jar Pineapple & Jalapeno Chutney 210g
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19
Freda’s
Peanut butterPeanut butter, crunchy, 180g a jar, and three ways to take it: toasted coconut, fruit and nut, or chipotle chilli. The breakfast end of a box that isn’t a marmalade.
On the shelfCrunchy Peanut Butter with Toasted Coconut 180g·Crunchy Peanut Butter with Fruit & Nut 180g·Crunchy Peanut Butter with Chipotle Chilli 180g
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20
Cajuu
NutsCashews, 100g a bag, six ways — mango, sweet chilli, chilli zest, salt and pepper, vanilla and salted caramel, and one plain salt-roasted for people who wanted a cashew.
On the shelfMango Moa Cashews 100g·Safari Sweet Chilli Cashews 100g·Zanzibar Chilli Zest Cashews 100g·Tanzanian Salt Roasted Cashews 100g
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21
Joe’s Tea Co
TeaFive teas, one job each — a breakfast, an Earl Grey, a green, a peppermint, a chamomile — and the names are doing at least half the work.
On the shelfThe Earl of Grey Tea·Queen of Green Tea·Ever-So-English Breakfast Tea·Proper Peppermint Tea
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22
Henners
English sparklingTwo bottles and that’s the whole range: the Brut and the Rosé, both 75cl, both non-vintage. The English sparkling end of the bottle shelf.
On the shelfHenners Brut NV, 75cl·Henners Rosé NV, 75cl
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23
Cakehead
TraybakesThe traybake end: brownies, a blondie, a flapjack, a rocky road, a caramel shortbread. 220g to 300g a slab, which is a box’s worth rather than a slice.
On the shelfPecan & Caramel Brownie 275g·Lemon & White Chocolate Blondie 255g·Chocolate Orange Rocky Road 270g·Caramel Shortbread 220g
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24
Cheese Man
Cheese & chutneyThe cheddars, mostly — Black Bomber, Sussex Charmer, Purple Vale, Truffle Trove — with the Camembert and the Stilton beside them. Those are the cheeses’ own names, not a dairy’s and not ours — which is how most of the lines here read. The Village Maid ale-washed is one that puts a dairy on the front. Also the small chutneys, 100g and 114g, cut for one board rather than a cupboard.
On the shelfWhole Camembert 250g·Black Bomber Cheddar 200g·Sussex Charmer Mature 200g·Fig & Apple Chutney 114g
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25
Cotswold Fair
Store cupboardThe store cupboard, and much of it arrives under someone else’s name: TruffleHunter’s truffle mayonnaise, Poon’s chilli oil, Gymkhana’s curry sauces, Jolly’s Cornish soft drinks. The olives and the tapenade carry no name but the food’s, and of the four pork cracklings three are named for their flavour alone — the fourth is a Colman’s.
On the shelfBlack Olive Tapenade 300g·Malidzano Smoky Aubergine Meze 314g·TruffleHunter Black Truffle Mayonnaise 180g·Poon’s Chilli Oil 125g
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26
Sarunds
Chocolate & biscuitsThe boxed chocolate — Van Roy’s Belgian assortments and truffles, Bennetto’s bars — and the biscuit end that goes beside a coffee: macarons, cannoli, Florentins.
On the shelfVan Roy Assorted Belgian Chocolates 185g·Bennetto Dark Salted Caramel Bar 80g·Macarons de Pauline Mixed Macarons 72g·Dolci Di Mamma Cannoli (6 pack)
A working list, not a finished one. It gets longer as each name is confirmed, and never before.
Traced as far as we can honestly trace it.
This one reaches us through Moreno. So we can tell you who put it on our shelf, and the label tells you the estate that made it — which is two of the three things worth knowing.
The third is the vineyard, and we haven’t stood in it. When we can say more, we’ll say it here. That’s the whole method: write down what’s true, leave the rest visibly empty, fill it in when it’s confirmed.
What we can’t tell you yet.
Twenty-six names is an honest list. It isn’t the whole shelf. Not everything we sell arrives with a maker’s name attached to it, and some of what does, we haven’t had confirmed in writing.
The easy thing would be to write a village and a founding date next to each one and hope nobody checks. We’d rather leave the line empty. An invented provenance is worse than a missing one, because it makes every other line on the page worth less.
This is what a blank looks like here. It fills in, or it stays a blank.
If you make something good, tell us about it.
This list is how we buy, and it has room in it. If you make something and you think it belongs in a hamper packed in Sussex, write and tell us what it is, where you make it, and how much of it you can make.
hello@artisandelimarket.co.uk Or talk to someone: 01273 102712The list is the shelf.
Choose from it, piece by piece, for one particular person.