Every time that Flora Fine Foods CEO John Flora returns to his native Italy, he finds new ideas to bring home to South Florida. Like Taralli, a crunchy olive-oily wheat biscuit. “It’s the most popular snack in all of southern Italy,” says the 68-year-old Parkland resident and company founder.

Flora Fine Foods was the first company to market the snack in the United States, Flora says. Now it’s a mainstay of the Coral Springs company’s growing inventory of imported Italian grocery items, alongside its sauces, olive oils, pastas, canned tomatoes, vinegars, and baked goods.