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Recommended Artisan and Local Foods Products

Find artisan products -- from cheese to caramels, salami to fruit liqueurs -- made in small batches by people who source ingredients locally and from sustainable sources.
Top 10 Artisan Food Gifts
Make sure your food gift is eaten rather than tucked into a cupboard and forgotten. These artisan-made gift packages and food clubs deliver great taste and beautiful packaging, along with small-batch production.
Massa Organics Brown Rice
This small family rice farm near Chico, California sees itself as part of a larger eco-system. Best of all, the rice is delicious. It's harvested later, and thus drier, than rice grown for milling into white rice, giving it a nutty flavor you'll instantly recognize as that rice taste that's been missing from your rice all these years.
Rancho Gordo Heirloom Dried Beans
Find varieties of beans you never imagined existed! Rancho Gordo grows and dries dozens of varieties of heirloom beans (20 to 30 kinds are available at any given time), as well as chiles and pozole. Their Rio Fuego hot sauce is worth seeking out.

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