Artisan Foods
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.
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.
Valentine's Day Gifts
Give a gift that no one needs to store: Food and drink. Their consumption can be part of the celebration. Collected here are my tops picks for the three most popular, fabulous, romantic, aphrodisiac food gifts to make your Valentine swoon: champagne, chocolate, and oysters.
Give a gift that no one needs to store: Food and drink. Their consumption can be part of the celebration. Collected here are my tops picks for the three most popular, fabulous, romantic, aphrodisiac food gifts to make your Valentine swoon: champagne, chocolate, and oysters.
"Wildman" Steve Brill
Steve Brill leads foraging tours in New York City. Learn more about wild edibles, his tours, and vegan recipes from the "wildman."
Steve Brill leads foraging tours in New York City. Learn more about wild edibles, his tours, and vegan recipes from the "wildman."
Happy Girl Kitchen Co.
Happy Girl Kitchen sells pickles and preserves made the old-fashioned way and using organic produce from California's Central Valley.
Happy Girl Kitchen sells pickles and preserves made the old-fashioned way and using organic produce from California's Central Valley.
Rick's Picks! Pickles
Rick's Picks! makes an enticing array of flavored, spiced, and mind-blowing pickles. Wasabi green bean pickles anyone?
Rick's Picks! makes an enticing array of flavored, spiced, and mind-blowing pickles. Wasabi green bean pickles anyone?
Jeremy Faber of Foraged and Found Edibles in Seattle, Washington
Jeremy Faber of Foraged and Found Edibles in Seattle, Washington talks about picking mushrooms, greens, and berries in the rich land of the Pacific Northwest.
Jeremy Faber of Foraged and Found Edibles in Seattle, Washington talks about picking mushrooms, greens, and berries in the rich land of the Pacific Northwest.
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.
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.
Monterey Abalone Company
Monterey Abalone Company grows red abalone under a pier in downtown Monterey.
Monterey Abalone Company grows red abalone under a pier in downtown Monterey.
Otow Orchard
Otow Orchards grows all kinds of orchard fruits--peaches, plums, citrus, and, famously, persimmons. Not only do they grow several varieties of persimmons, but they also make traditional Japanese <i>hoshigaki</i>, or dried persimmons.
Otow Orchards grows all kinds of orchard fruits--peaches, plums, citrus, and, famously, persimmons. Not only do they grow several varieties of persimmons, but they also make traditional Japanese <i>hoshigaki</i>, or dried persimmons.
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.
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.
The Olivina Olive Ranch of Livermore, California
Olivina Ranch in Livermore, California grows six varieties of olives and presses them all separately--making varietal olive oils.
Olivina Ranch in Livermore, California grows six varieties of olives and presses them all separately--making varietal olive oils.