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Domestic Gourmet Brings Heritage Latin Pantry Staples — Made From Scratch — to Home Cooks Nationwide
PRESS RELEASE — NEWS PROVIDED BY Ciji Castro for Domestic Gourmet
CLEARWATER, FL (OCTOBER 2026) — Domestic Gourmet, a Tampa Bay pantry brand founded by executive chef Ciji Castro, has launched its new store on Shopify, bringing its scratch-made Latin staples to home cooks across the United States, including Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Every product in the lineup is made from scratch, in small batches, with 100% organic ingredients.
The collection begins with Annatto Oil (aceite de achiote), a ready-to-use golden oil made with just two ingredients: organic high-oleic sunflower oil and organic annatto seeds. It delivers the warm color and earthy flavor essential to rice, sofrito, beans, and stews. 12 fl oz, $34.85.
Beside it stand the brand’s seasoning staples. Organic Sazón is an annatto-first blend that brings warm color and earthy flavor to rice, beans, stews, meats, and marinades. 2 oz, $14. Organic Adobo is a savory all-purpose seasoning made with salt and organic garlic, onion, turmeric, cumin, oregano, and black pepper, built for chicken, pork, seafood, vegetables, beans, and rice. 5 oz, $14. The two are also sold together as the Adobo & Sazón Duo, $25.
For holiday and celebration cooking, the brand offers the Latin Cooking Gift Box, which bundles the annatto oil, adobo, and sazón, $64.99, and the Pasteles Edition Box, $73.79, which adds pasteles wrapping paper and cotton butcher’s twine to the trio, giving families everything needed for a pasteles-making day. The pasteles paper and twine are also available as a bundle, $15.79. Holiday orders close December 15.
Castro founded Domestic Gourmet to preserve the Cuban and Puerto Rican flavors of her family kitchen and pass them to the next generation of cooks. The brand has been featured in Forbes, Telemundo, Southern Living, and Tampa Magazine, and its products are available at shop.domesticgourmet.com. Wholesale buyers can find Domestic Gourmet on RangeMe.
About Domestic Gourmet
Domestic Gourmet brings the flavors of Latin family kitchens to yours with products ready to cook with, every day. Our staples are made from scratch in small batches with 100% organic ingredients: Annatto Oil (aceite de achiote), the golden oil that gives rice, beans, stews, and pasteles their signature color and earthy flavor; Sazón, our annatto-forward seasoning for meats, soups, and grains; and Adobo, the all-purpose seasoning blend you’ll reach for on chicken, pork, seafood, and vegetables.
Taste the difference real, scratch-made ingredients make, and bring a little family tradition to your table at domesticgourmet.com.
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