In Napa, just around the corner from The Fatted Calf, sits a shopping arcade like no other. Oxbow Public Market is open and inviting, with spice stores and wine bars, cheese merchants and cupcake stands. Every stall calls to you, if you love good food.
And then there is Heritage Culinary Artifacts.
“Heritage Culinary Artifacts is the ultimate source for premium culinary antiques that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.”
Walk around this open space and you’ll find antique head cheese molds. Cast-iron, heavy enough to withstand the test of a well-worked kitchen, and yet beautiful at the same time.
Well of course. Who doesn’t need this for her house?
(Danny would probably use it, if we could ever afford it. This would never just sit on a shelf.)
A sausage stuffer. From the 1920s. Now that’s some sausage making. Was this for a commercial kitchen? Or a giant farmhouse kitchen?
These people were serious about their sausage.
(I’m not sure we’d use this one. Lovely, though.)
I wish I knew the story of where this came from.
We started laughing when we saw this. That face! I had to crouch on the ground to see him and snap this.
Heritage Artifacts is clearly a work of love from its owner, a former sommelier with a love for all things related to food. Each object has been hand chosen, a work of art and useful too (or sometimes just funny). And we swear, half the place is pig paraphenalia. If you love all things pork, this is the store for you.
Heritage Culinary Artifacts
Oxbow Public Market
610 First Street, Stall 14
Napa, California 94559
www.heritageartifacts.com
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