The world's finest spices & specialties, carefully sourced for your kitchen.
From hand-harvested saffron to single-origin olive oils, Mamar Specialities is a New Jersey purveyor of small-batch culinary ingredients that elevate every dish. Trusted by chefs, beloved by home cooks.
Quality you can taste, sourcing you can trust.
Every jar, bottle and bag in our catalog is hand-selected by founder Wayne Whiteman and his small team — vetted for origin, freshness and the kind of flavor that turns a recipe into a memory.
Direct-from-Origin
We work with growers, millers and producers across 27 countries — no middlemen, no mystery, just transparent provenance from farm to pantry.
Small-Batch Freshness
Spices ground in small lots and sealed within days of arrival. You get peak aroma and color — never the dusty mass-market product.
Family-Owned, Always
A second-generation New Jersey business. Real people answer the phone. Real chefs taste every batch. Real care in every order.
A curated pantry, eight ways.
Browse our most-loved collections — each one assembled with the same eye for quality.
Built in a Metuchen storefront. Shipped across the country.
Mamar Specialities began in 2014 as a single shelf of imported spices in Wayne Whiteman's family kitchen. A decade later, we operate from a sunlit warehouse on Webster Street, ship to all 48 contiguous states, and supply more than four hundred restaurants and specialty grocers nationwide.
What hasn't changed: the obsessive sourcing, the small-batch attention, and the belief that a good ingredient is the easiest way to make a great meal.
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From distant fields to your front door.
A four-step process that keeps quality high and supply chains short.
Source
Wayne and our buying team travel to origin regions to taste, vet and contract directly with producers.
Inspect
Every shipment is QC-tested for purity, moisture and aroma in our New Jersey facility.
Prepare
We grind, blend and package in small lots — usually within seven days of arrival.
Ship
Orders ship from Metuchen via USPS & UPS, often arriving within 2–4 business days.
What chefs & home cooks say.
"The smoked paprika from Mamar changed our paella program. Wayne's team genuinely cares about what ends up on your plate."
"I've ordered saffron from a dozen suppliers. Mamar's is the only one I keep coming back to. Aroma off the chart."
"Fast shipping, beautiful packaging, and the customer service is the kind you only used to find at corner shops."
Restaurant, grocer or caterer?
We supply more than 400 culinary professionals across the country with custom blends, private-label packaging and reliable bulk pricing. Tell us what you need.
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