🇦🇫 Kabul
Handwoven Afghan rug
~$110Hand-knotted wool rugs from a weaving tradition that predates the Silk Road caravans through Kabul.
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🇦🇺Australia4 cities›
🇦🇺 Hobart
Tasmanian leatherwood honey
~$32Pressed from a tree that grows only in Tasmania's western rainforest — spicy and floral.
🇦🇺 Melbourne
Melbourne coffee blend
~$19A roast from the city widely credited with Australia's café-culture obsession.
🇦🇺 Perth
Western Australian sandalwood oil
~$45Slow-grown desert sandalwood, harvested under licence in the state's arid interior.
🇦🇺 Sydney
Australian outback leather hat
~$64The wide-brimmed leather hat that's defined the Australian outback look for generations.
🇦🇹Austria1 city›
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🇧🇷Brazil5 cities›
🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte
Brazilian green propolis
~$34Bee resin from the rosemary scrub of the Minas highlands, prized as far away as Japan.
🇧🇷 Belém
Pará Brazil nuts
~$26Gathered from wild castanheira trees in the eastern Amazon — a nut nobody has managed to farm.
🇧🇷 Manaus
Amazonian guaraná powder
~$24Ground seed of the rainforest vine Amazonians used for energy long before it reached a can.
🇧🇷 Porto Alegre
Chimarrão gourd and bomba set
~$38The gourd, straw and yerba of the gaúcho south, passed round a circle all afternoon.
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro
Havaianas sandals
~$38The rubber sandal that's been Brazilian beach culture's uniform since 1962.
🇧🇳Brunei1 city›
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🇧🇫Burkina Faso1 city›
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🇨🇻Cabo Verde1 city›
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🇨🇲Cameroon1 city›
🇨🇦Canada3 cities›
🇨🇦 Ottawa
Maple syrup gift set
~$22Pure maple syrup tapped from Canadian sugar maples, graded and bottled by small producers.
🇨🇦 Quebec City
Quebec maple ice cider
~$26Ice cider pressed from maple sap and frozen apples, a Quebec specialty.
🇨🇦 Vancouver
Pacific smoked salmon gift box
~$35Cedar-smoked salmon from the Pacific waters off British Columbia.
🇨🇫Central African Republic1 city›
🇹🇩Chad1 city›
🇨🇱Chile3 cities›
🇨🇱 Punta Arenas
Patagonian merino wool blanket
~$110Woven from sheep that winter on the Magellan grasslands at the end of the continent.
🇨🇱 Santiago
Chilean wine
~$49A bottle from the Central Valley vineyards that made Chile a top-ten wine exporter.
🇨🇱 Valparaíso
Chilean copper jewelry
~$32Jewelry worked from copper, the metal that has powered Chile's economy for over a century.
🇨🇳China8 cities›
🇨🇳 Beijing
Chinese tea set
~$50A ceramic gongfu tea set for brewing the way tea has been prepared in China for millennia.
🇨🇳 Chengdu
Sichuan peppercorn gift set
~$14The numbing red peppercorn that defines Chengdu's fiery Sichuan cuisine.
🇨🇳 Hangzhou
Longjing green tea set
~$29Pan-fired Dragon Well tea, hand-picked on the hills above Hangzhou's West Lake.
🇨🇳 Hohhot
Inner Mongolian cashmere scarf
~$95Combed from goats that winter on the grassland, where most of the world's cashmere starts.
🇨🇳 Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain
~$100A thousand years of imperial kilns in one town — the reason porcelain is called china.
🇨🇳 Kunming
Pu-erh tea cake
~$38Compressed Yunnan leaf that ages like wine, traded down the old tea-horse road.
🇨🇳 Lhasa
Tibetan singing bowl
~$21Hand-hammered metal bowl from the plateau, struck and sung in monastery practice.
🇨🇳 Xi'an
Terracotta Warrior replica figurine
~$27A replica of the clay soldiers buried to guard China's first emperor near Xi'an.
🇨🇴Colombia3 cities›
🇨🇴 Bogotá
Colombian coffee
~$17Single-origin arabica from the mountain fincas of Colombia's Coffee Triangle.
🇨🇴 Cartagena
Colombian emerald jewelry
~$98Colombia mines more fine emeralds than anywhere else on earth; this one's set in Cartagena.
🇨🇴 Salento
Coffee Axis arabica beans
~$26Grown in the wax-palm valleys of Quindío, the heart of Colombia's coffee country.
🇰🇲Comoros1 city›
🇨🇩Congo (DRC)2 cities›
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🇭🇺Hungary1 city›
🇮🇸Iceland1 city›
🇮🇳India8 cities›
🇮🇳 Amritsar
Punjabi phulkari dupatta
~$42Floral silk-floss embroidery worked across handspun cotton in Punjab's villages.
🇮🇳 Darjeeling
Darjeeling tea gift box
~$26The 'champagne of teas', grown only on the Himalayan slopes above Darjeeling.
🇮🇳 Guwahati
Assam second-flush black tea
~$24Malty, brisk leaf from the Brahmaputra valley, the largest tea region on earth.
🇮🇳 Jaipur
Pashmina wool scarf
~$29Fine woven wool from Rajasthan's textile tradition.
🇮🇳 Kochi
Kerala spice box
~$21Cardamom, pepper and cinnamon from Kerala, the coast Europe once sailed here for.
🇮🇳 Kolkata
Bengali kantha quilt
~$20Old saris layered and run through with running stitch — Bengal's thrift turned into art.
🇮🇳 Panaji
Goan roasted cashews
~$26Portuguese-introduced cashews roasted with salt and chilli along the Konkan coast.
🇮🇳 Varanasi
Banarasi silk saree
~$70Gold-brocaded silk woven in Varanasi, India's oldest continuously-inhabited weaving city.
🇮🇩Indonesia4 cities›
🇮🇩 Jakarta
Batik textile
~$36Wax-resist dyed cloth, an Indonesian craft recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of Humanity.
🇮🇩 Medan
Sumatra Mandheling coffee
~$30Wet-hulled highland beans from North Sumatra — earthy, syrupy and low in acid.
🇮🇩 Ubud
Balinese silver jewelry
~$66Filigree silver jewelry hand-worked in Bali's Celuk silversmithing village.
🇮🇩 Yogyakarta
Yogyakarta batik kit
~$31A wax-resist batik kit from the Javanese city UNESCO recognizes as batik's heartland.
🇮🇷Iran3 cities›
🇮🇷 Mashhad
Khorasan saffron threads
~$34Hand-picked stigmas from the province that grows most of the world's saffron.
🇮🇷 Shiraz
Persian rosewater
~$20Distilled from Damask roses in the gardens that made Shiraz a byword for poetry.
🇮🇷 Tabriz
Persian rug
~$55A hand-knotted rug from Tabriz, one of the historic centers of Persian carpet weaving.
🇮🇶Iraq1 city›
🇮🇪Ireland1 city›
🇮🇱Israel2 cities›
🇮🇹Italy3 cities›
🇮🇹 Florence
Genuine leather wallet
~$68Florence has shaped leather into fine goods since the Renaissance.
🇮🇹 Rome
Bialetti Moka Express
~$50The stovetop espresso maker that's been brewing Italian mornings since 1933.
🇮🇹 Venice
Murano glass ornament
~$75Hand-blown glass from the furnaces of Murano island, glassmaking's home for 700 years.
🇨🇮Ivory Coast1 city›
🇯🇲Jamaica1 city›
🇯🇵Japan5 cities›
🇯🇵 Kyoto
Matcha ceremony set
~$24Bamboo whisk and matcha essentials from Japan's tea-ceremony capital.
🇯🇵 Naha
Okinawan kokuto brown sugar
~$22Whole cane sugar boiled down on the Ryukyu islands, mineral and slightly bitter.
🇯🇵 Osaka
Osaka takoyaki pan set
~$32The cast-iron pan for takoyaki, the octopus-ball street food Osaka is famous for.
🇯🇵 Sapporo
Hokkaido rishiri kombu
~$30Cold-water kelp from the northern seas, the backbone of Japanese dashi.
🇯🇵 Tokyo
Santoku chef's knife
~$92Japan's all-purpose kitchen knife, prized for its precision edge.
🇯🇴Jordan1 city›
🇰🇿Kazakhstan1 city›
🇰🇪Kenya2 cities›
🇰🇮Kiribati1 city›
🇽🇰Kosovo1 city›
🇰🇼Kuwait1 city›
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan1 city›
🇱🇦Laos1 city›
🇱🇻Latvia1 city›
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🇱🇸Lesotho1 city›
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🇱🇾Libya1 city›
🇱🇮Liechtenstein1 city›
🇱🇹Lithuania1 city›
🇱🇺Luxembourg1 city›
🇲🇬Madagascar2 cities›
🇲🇼Malawi1 city›
🇲🇾Malaysia3 cities›
🇲🇾 George Town
Penang laksa spice paste kit
~$14The spice paste behind Penang's assam laksa, a hawker-stall icon of George Town's food scene.
🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian batik sarong
~$29Hand-drawn batik sarongs from the east-coast workshops of Kelantan and Terengganu.
🇲🇾 Kuching
Sarawak black pepper
~$22Borneo peppercorns sun-dried on riverbank farms — floral where other pepper is only hot.
🇲🇱Mali2 cities›
🇲🇷Mauritania1 city›
🇲🇺Mauritius1 city›
🇲🇽Mexico4 cities›
🇲🇽 Guadalajara
Tequila gift set
~$35Blue-agave tequila from Jalisco, the only region allowed to call it that.
🇲🇽 Mérida
Yucatán habanero hot sauce
~$18Fire and citrus from the peninsula that grows Mexico's hottest chile.
🇲🇽 Oaxaca
Oaxacan mezcal
~$42Smoky agave spirit distilled in small Oaxacan palenques, mezcal's ancestral home.
🇲🇽 Puebla
Talavera ceramic plate set
~$48Hand-painted Talavera ceramics, a Puebla craft tradition since Spanish colonial times.
🇫🇲Micronesia1 city›
🇲🇩Moldova1 city›
🇲🇨Monaco1 city›
🇲🇳Mongolia1 city›
🇲🇪Montenegro1 city›
🇲🇦Morocco2 cities›
🇲🇿Mozambique1 city›
🇲🇲Myanmar1 city›
🇳🇦Namibia2 cities›
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🇳🇱Netherlands1 city›
🇳🇿New Zealand2 cities›
🇳🇮Nicaragua1 city›
🇳🇬Nigeria1 city›
🇰🇵North Korea1 city›
🇲🇰North Macedonia1 city›
🇳🇴Norway1 city›
🇴🇲Oman2 cities›
🇵🇰Pakistan1 city›
🇵🇦Panama1 city›
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea2 cities›
🇵🇾Paraguay1 city›
🇵🇪Peru3 cities›
🇵🇪 Cusco
Alpaca wool scarf
~$48Soft alpaca fiber from the Andean highlands surrounding the former Inca capital.
🇵🇪 Iquitos
Amazonian camu camu powder
~$28A riverside fruit with more vitamin C than any other, from a jungle city you can't drive to.
🇵🇪 Lima
Peruvian Pisco spirit
~$29Grape brandy distilled along Peru's coast, at the center of the region's oldest spirit rivalry.
🇵🇭Philippines2 cities›
🇵🇱Poland1 city›
🇵🇹Portugal1 city›
🇶🇦Qatar1 city›
🇷🇴Romania1 city›
🇷🇺Russia3 cities›
🇷🇺 Kaliningrad
Baltic amber pendant
~$45Fossil resin washed up on the Sambian coast, which holds most of the world's amber.
🇷🇺 Moscow
Matryoshka nesting dolls
~$20Hand-painted nesting dolls, a Russian folk-art icon since the 1890s.
🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg
Imperial Porcelain cobalt net tea set
~$130The cobalt-and-gold net the city's 1744 imperial works still paints on by hand, cup by cup.
🇷🇼Rwanda1 city›
🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis1 city›
🇱🇨Saint Lucia1 city›
🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1 city›
🇼🇸Samoa1 city›
🇸🇲San Marino1 city›
🇸🇹Sao Tome and Principe1 city›
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia3 cities›
🇸🇦 Hofuf
Al-Ahsa khalas dates
~$28Caramel-soft dates from the largest oasis on the Arabian peninsula.
🇸🇦 Jeddah
Saudi bakhoor incense set
~$29Oud-scented bakhoor wood chips, burned in majlis gatherings across the Red Sea coast.
🇸🇦 Riyadh
Saudi dallah coffee set with dates
~$36A brass coffee pot and Medjool dates, served together across Saudi hospitality.
🇸🇳Senegal1 city›
🇷🇸Serbia1 city›
🇸🇨Seychelles1 city›
🇸🇱Sierra Leone1 city›
🇸🇰Slovakia1 city›
🇸🇮Slovenia1 city›
🇸🇴Somalia2 cities›
🇿🇦South Africa3 cities›
🇿🇦 Cape Town
Rooibos tea set
~$19Red bush tea grown only in South Africa's Cederberg region.
🇿🇦 Clanwilliam
Cederberg rooibos tea
~$16A bush that grows only in these mountains, cut and oxidised red in the sun.
🇿🇦 Johannesburg
Ndebele beadwork art
~$37Geometric glass-bead art from the Ndebele tradition of South Africa's Highveld.
🇰🇷South Korea2 cities›
🇸🇸South Sudan1 city›
🇪🇸Spain3 cities›
🇪🇸 Barcelona
Handwoven esparto espadrilles
~$120Esparto-grass sandals, a Catalan craft tradition worn since the 14th century.
🇪🇸 Madrid
Jamón Ibérico gift selection
~$60Spain's most celebrated cured ham, from the country's culinary heartland.
🇪🇸 Seville
Hand-painted flamenco fan (abanico)
~$12A folding fan rooted in Andalusia's flamenco culture.
🇱🇰Sri Lanka2 cities›
🇸🇩Sudan1 city›
🇸🇷Suriname1 city›
🇸🇪Sweden2 cities›
🇨🇭Switzerland1 city›
🇸🇾Syria1 city›
🇹🇼Taiwan1 city›
🇹🇯Tajikistan1 city›
🇹🇿Tanzania2 cities›
🇹🇭Thailand2 cities›
🇹🇱Timor-Leste1 city›
🇹🇬Togo1 city›
🇹🇴Tonga1 city›
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago1 city›
🇹🇳Tunisia2 cities›
🇹🇷Turkey4 cities›
🇹🇷 Avanos
Avanos hand-thrown pottery
~$34Red-clay pottery thrown on foot-powered wheels in Cappadocia's pottery capital.
🇹🇷 Gaziantep
Antep pistachio baklava
~$38Forty leaves of pastry and green Antep pistachio — the city UNESCO listed for its cooking.
🇹🇷 Istanbul
Turkish delight (lokum) gift box
~$34Rosewater-scented confection that's been Istanbul's sweet shop staple for centuries.
🇹🇷 Trabzon
Black Sea hazelnuts
~$26This coast grows most of the world's hazelnuts; these are the raw article.
🇹🇲Turkmenistan1 city›
🇹🇻Tuvalu1 city›
🇺🇬Uganda1 city›
🇺🇦Ukraine2 cities›
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates2 cities›
🇬🇧United Kingdom2 cities›
🇺🇸United States13 cities›
🇺🇸 Anchorage
Alaskan smoked salmon
~$42Wild sockeye, cold-smoked over alder the way Alaskan fish camps have always done it.
🇺🇸 Austin
Central Texas brisket rub
~$20Salt, pepper and not much else — the rub behind Hill Country barbecue.
🇺🇸 Bozeman
Montana huckleberry jam
~$24Wild mountain huckleberries that refuse to be farmed, picked by hand in the Rockies.
🇺🇸 Burlington
Vermont maple syrup
~$32Amber syrup boiled down in the sugarhouses of the Green Mountains.
🇺🇸 Charleston
Carolina Gold rice
~$22The heirloom Lowcountry grain that built Charleston, brought back from near-extinction.
🇺🇸 Kailua-Kona
100% Kona coffee
~$48Grown on volcanic slopes above Kealakekua Bay, the only commercial coffee belt in the US.
🇺🇸 Louisville
American bourbon whiskey
~$43Bourbon distilled in Kentucky, the only spirit legally required to be made in the USA.
🇺🇸 Napa Valley
Napa Valley wine
~$37A bottle from the valley that put American wine on the world map.
🇺🇸 Nashville
Nashville hot chicken seasoning kit
~$15The fiery cayenne rub behind Nashville's signature hot chicken, born at Prince's in the 1930s.
🇺🇸 New Orleans
New Orleans Cajun spice blend
~$13The peppery Creole spice mix that seasons gumbo and jambalaya across New Orleans.
🇺🇸 Portland
Maine wild blueberry preserve
~$20Tiny barrens blueberries from Down East, far more intense than anything cultivated.
🇺🇸 Santa Fe
Hatch green chile
~$26New Mexico's roasted green chile, the flavour the whole state organises its autumn around.
🇺🇸 Seattle
Seattle coffee roast
~$18A dark-roast blend from the city that launched America's specialty-coffee wave.
🇺🇾Uruguay1 city›
🇺🇿Uzbekistan2 cities›
🇻🇺Vanuatu1 city›
🇻🇦Vatican City1 city›
🇻🇪Venezuela1 city›
🇻🇳Vietnam3 cities›
🇻🇳 Hanoi
Vietnamese coffee phin filter
~$11The drip-filter phin that brews Vietnam's dense, condensed-milk coffee.
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnamese robusta and phin filter
~$24The dark roast and little drip filter behind every glass of cà phê sữa đá in the south.
🇻🇳 Hoi An
Hoi An silk lantern
~$36A folding silk lantern, hand-made in the lantern-lit ancient town of Hoi An.
🇾🇪Yemen2 cities›
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