WEST AFRICA
Pantry staples, spices, grains, sauces and traditional ingredients.
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Every Aisle Has a Story.
For more than four decades, Old World Market has helped Chicago families find the ingredients that make a meal taste like home. From West African pantry staples and spices to select Caribbean favorites, our shelves connect generations, cultures and kitchens. Now we’re bringing that experience online.
CARIBBEAN
Selected ingredients and flavors that bring island kitchens closer.
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Four decades of bringing people together at 5129 N Broadway.
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Discover Something Familiar. Find Something New.
Food can take you somewhere. Sometimes it takes you across the world. Sometimes it takes you back to your grandmother’s kitchen. And sometimes it introduces you to a flavor you’ve never experienced before.
That’s what discovery means at Old World Market. We want to help you understand not only what an ingredient is, but where it comes from, how families use it, what dishes it belongs in and why people have loved it for generations.
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What Is Fufu?
Fufu is one of the foods that immediately shows what Old World Market is about. Made from starchy ingredients such as cassava, plantain or yam, fufu is enjoyed alongside soups and stews throughout parts of West Africa and beyond. But that’s only the beginning of the story.
Our Featured Foods library introduces the ingredients on our shelves one at a time — what they are, where they’re used, how they’re prepared and what you can cook with them.
EXPLORE THE FEATURED FOODS LIBRARY →COOK WHAT YOU DISCOVER
Don’t Just Discover It. Cook It.
Our recipe library connects the ingredients on our shelves to dishes you can make at home.
LEARN THE STORY
FIND THE INGREDIENTS
FOLLOW THE RECIPE
MAKE IT YOUR OWN
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Your Next Discovery Is Waiting.
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