These gift boxes from Culinary Backstreets are designed to create a vicarious trip to a city like Naples or Athens at a time when travel is on hold. The company offers food tours of more than a dozen cities, and has assembled worthwhile assortments of often hard-to-find items that represent five of the destinations: Athens, Barcelona, Naples, Mexico City and Queens, N.Y. From Naples there is colatura condiment, coffee, paccheri pasta and a sauce made with Mount Vesuvius tomatoes, among other items; Athens is represented by honey, olive oil and more; the Barcelona box includes romesco sauce and traditional bodega glasses for wine; and from Queens there are items like Peruvian cilantro paste, Thai pad kapao chile paste and Mexican bowls.
Backstreet Box, $55 to $73, culinarybackstreets.com.
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