
🇦🇫 Kabul
Handwoven Afghan rug
€99.90Hand-knotted wool rugs from a weaving tradition that predates the Silk Road caravans through Kabul.
glocal.cat is a curated directory of the single most iconic, locally-rooted product from cities around the world — the ham from Madrid, the espadrilles from Barcelona, the moka pot from Rome. No mass-market filler, one pick per place.
Every country, plus a deeper second pick for a few dozen places.

Maple syrup gift set
€19.90Pure maple syrup tapped from Canadian sugar maples, graded and bottled by small producers.

Quebec maple ice cider
€24.00Ice cider pressed from maple sap and frozen apples, a Quebec specialty.

Pacific smoked salmon gift box
€32.00Cedar-smoked salmon from the Pacific waters off British Columbia.

Chinese tea set
€19.99A ceramic gongfu tea set for brewing the way tea has been prepared in China for millennia.

Sichuan peppercorn gift set
€13.00The numbing red peppercorn that defines Chengdu's fiery Sichuan cuisine.

Longjing green tea set
€26.00Pan-fired Dragon Well tea, hand-picked on the hills above Hangzhou's West Lake.

Terracotta Warrior replica figurine
€22.00A replica of the clay soldiers buried to guard China's first emperor near Xi'an.

Darjeeling tea gift box
€24.00The 'champagne of teas', grown only on the Himalayan slopes above Darjeeling.

Pashmina wool scarf
€24.45Fine woven wool from Rajasthan's textile tradition.

Kerala spice box
€19.00Cardamom, pepper and cinnamon from Kerala, the coast Europe once sailed here for.

Banarasi silk saree
€64.00Gold-brocaded silk woven in Varanasi, India's oldest continuously-inhabited weaving city.

Batik textile
€33.00Wax-resist dyed cloth, an Indonesian craft recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Humanity.

Balinese silver jewelry
€37.00Filigree silver jewelry hand-worked in Bali's Celuk silversmithing village.

Yogyakarta batik kit
€28.00A wax-resist batik kit from the Javanese city UNESCO recognizes as batik's heartland.

Genuine leather wallet
€49.99Florence has shaped leather into fine goods since the Renaissance.

Bialetti Moka Express
€28.90The stovetop espresso maker that's been brewing Italian mornings since 1933.

Murano glass ornament
€38.00Hand-blown glass from the furnaces of Murano island, glassmaking's home for 700 years.

Matcha ceremony set
€30.99Bamboo whisk and matcha essentials from Japan's tea-ceremony capital.

Osaka takoyaki pan set
€29.00The cast-iron pan for takoyaki, the octopus-ball street food Osaka is famous for.

Santoku chef's knife
€36.00Japan's all-purpose kitchen knife, prized for its precision edge.

Penang laksa spice paste kit
€13.00The spice paste behind Penang's assam laksa, a hawker-stall icon of George Town's food scene.

Malaysian batik sarong
€26.00Hand-drawn batik sarongs from the east-coast workshops of Kelantan and Terengganu.

Tequila gift set
€32.00Blue-agave tequila from Jalisco, the only region allowed to call it that.

Oaxacan mezcal
€38.00Smoky agave spirit distilled in small Oaxacan palenques, mezcal's ancestral home.

Talavera ceramic plate set
€60.00Hand-painted Talavera ceramics, a Puebla craft tradition since Spanish colonial times.

Handwoven esparto espadrilles
€33.95Esparto-grass sandals, a Catalan craft tradition worn since the 14th century.

Jamón Ibérico gift selection
€54.95Spain's most celebrated cured ham, from the country's culinary heartland.

Hand-painted flamenco fan (abanico)
€15.99A folding fan rooted in Andalusia's flamenco culture.

American bourbon whiskey
€39.00Bourbon distilled in Kentucky, the only spirit legally required to be made in the USA.

Napa Valley wine
€34.00A bottle from the valley that put American wine on the world map.

Nashville hot chicken seasoning kit
€14.00The fiery cayenne rub behind Nashville's signature hot chicken, born at Prince's in the 1930s.

New Orleans Cajun spice blend
€12.00The peppery Creole spice mix that seasons gumbo and jambalaya across New Orleans.
Seattle coffee roast
€16.00A dark-roast blend from the city that launched America's specialty-coffee wave.
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