Balsamic vinegar has been a specialty of Modena, in central Italy, since the 11th century, so we know we’re bringing you beautifully crafted vinegar, yielded from a tradition of excellence. While Americans typically enjoy this sweet and slightly piquant vinegar on salads and in vinaigrettes, Italians prefer using it for cooking with beef, veal, pork, lamb, and poultry.

Balsamic vinegar heightens the flavors of fruits and vegetables, whether braised, steamed, stewed, marinated, roasted, or reduced for sauce. We love it splashed over berries or drizzled on crumbly nuggets of salty Parmesan as an easy and unique appetizer.

Fairway Marketplace is brought to you by Fairway Market, a specialty food chain that started back in 1933 with a small fruit and vegetable stand on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Today, Fairway Market is legendary for its experts and expertise in all things food, and a relentless obsession with quality throughout all of the different departments in its stores. In December of 2011, Fairway launched this online shop, so that we could bring the best of the best of what Fairway offers, at the same great values, to those who don’t live near one of our stores. Why keep all of this foodie goodness to ourselves? That simply would not be fair.