Original Delites started in 1943 — a Mediterranean kitchen, a notebook of recipes, and a grandmother who refused to measure anything. Three generations later, we finally wrote it all down. And then we bottled it.
Our grandmother whips a garlic sauce in her Mediterranean kitchen, mostly to feed neighbors. Recipe goes into a notebook she'll carry for 60 years.
The family moves to Toronto. The notebook comes with. The garlic sauce becomes the dish she's known for at every gathering.
"Can I buy a jar?" becomes "Can I buy six?" We start filling Mason jars on weekends.
We legally bottle the Original Garlic Sauce. Three farmers' markets in Toronto. Sells out the first weekend.
Hot sauces, vinaigrette, marinade, pita chips. Amazon, indie grocers, and a small but growing wholesale book.
“She wrote the recipes down so we wouldn't lose them. We bottled them so no one would have to.”
Every bottle is hand-mixed, hand-filled, hand-labeled in our Toronto kitchen. We could scale faster — we'd just rather not.
Whole fruit, whole peppers, cold-pressed olive oil. We buy from people we can call by name — and we do, often.
Small kettles, no shortcuts. The Mango Habanero gets cooked twice — once for jam, once for sauce. That's not in the procurement spreadsheet.
Hand-filled into glass, hand-labeled, hand-boxed. The reason your bottle came with a tiny smudge of olive oil on the side: someone touched it.
Out of our kitchen, into yours, in 2 business days. We pack in straw, not foam. Every bottle goes out with a thank-you we actually wrote.
If you can't pronounce it, it shouldn't be in your food. We name every ingredient — including the salt.
No artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, or seed oils. Acid does the preserving. Glass does the bottling.
Lemon, olive oil, garlic, oregano, sumac, za'atar. Our flavor vocabulary comes from a real place, not a category trend.
If something's off with your order, you'll hear back from a person who works here. Often within an hour.
Family-run, still hands-on. We answer the emails, taste every batch, and care a lot about getting it right.
Wholesale program →