The Essential Ingredient - South Melbourne

The Essential Ingredient is a store specialized in Spanish foods, cookbooks and cookware in Australia, with seven outposts nationwide, in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, among other cites, as well as an online store.It supplies hotels, specialty food stores, delicatessens and restaurants with top-flight Spanish products, and carried a wide range of items. This includes spices and spice mixes, olives and olive oils, grains and nuts, specialty rices, sauces, capers, pastas, vinegars, and jams and preserves, among other products. It also carries glassware, tableware, utensils, terracotta, copperware and knives as well as cookbooks.The Essential Ingredient also has cooking schools in several of its locations, with classes led by some of the country’s top chefs including Spanish cuisine classes on tapas as well as paella, churros and sangria, among others.