Four builders · four colors

The sauce builders.

Four dry blends that handle the hard part of a good sauce. You bring a pan and ten minutes. Pick one, bloom it in oil, and build the real thing from there.

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The four sauce builders

01 / Sun-dried tomato + herb

Tuscan Gold

Sun-dried tomato, oregano, basil, fennel. Bloom it in olive oil and it turns into a bright, herby red sauce that tastes like it sat on the stove all afternoon. It didn't.

02 / Saffron + citrus · the splurge

Golden Hour

Real saffron, smoked paprika, lemon zest. The splurge of the four, and the one people text me about. Made for rice, seafood, and cream sauces that punch above a weeknight.

03 / Calabrian chili

Brooklyn Heat

Calabrian chili, garlic, fennel. Heat that actually tastes like something. Add a can of crushed tomato and let it rip into an arrabbiata, or steep it into a chili oil you'll put on everything.

04 / Tomato garlic confit

Slow Jam

Sun-dried tomato, garlic, basil. The everyday one. All the deep, jammy flavor of tomato confit, minus the afternoon it usually takes. Good on pasta, toast, or eggs.

Or take the whole set.

Sampler

The Four

All four builders in 2oz. The easiest way to find your favorite.

$35
Add the sampler
Chef's Friend

The Four, Big

All four builders in 4oz. For the cook who already knows they want all of it, and is going to run out of the small ones anyway.

$50
Add the big set

You bring the pan.
We bring the depth.

Every blend is mixed by hand in small batches in Flatbush, Brooklyn. No fillers, no jars of preservatives. Just the base that usually takes an afternoon.

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