Among her favorites is the carambola, an indigenous fruit that looks like an elongated yellow star and is often called star fruit in American specialty groceries.

Right now, so-called specialty groceries make up less than 10 percent of that.

Like countless specialty groceries scattered across New York, the Gourmet Plaza in Brighton Beach is a neighborhood favorite for immigrants hungry for a taste of home.

William Poll, who with his wife, Christine, opened one of the first specialty groceries on the Upper East Side more than 50 years ago, died on Friday at his Queens home.

Diners on their way to tables in the rear of this long, narrow, high-ceilinged Rockville Centre storefront first encounter shelves loaded with imported olive oils, pastas, biscotti and other specialty groceries.

This 95-year-old specialty grocery and charcuterie is worth a stop just for the remarkable cured ham called jabugo, a specialty from the mountains outside of Seville.

Otherwise, prepare to pay as much as $1.49 each at specialty groceries.

In the US he owned the Trader Joe's specialty grocery store chain.

They are widely sold in small boxes or packets in supermarkets, health-food stores, specialty groceries and Oriental markets.

The agreement would close lawsuits spanning 15 years and mark the demise of Manganaro Foods, a century-old specialty grocery and restaurant at 488 Ninth Avenue, near 37th Street.