Mighty Goods: Food and Drink

White Sugar Cone

Your sugar isn’t posh enough.

Posted: 23 Jul, 2007 in Food and Drink

Masala Chai

A subtle, authentic Chai Blend that doesn’t taste as though someone mixed lumps of brown sugar into the tea. Spicy, cozy, and delicious.

$8 at Portsmouth Tea Company

(2.2 oz)

Posted: 19 Jun, 2007 in Food and Drink

Tobasco Gallons

Hotter. HOTTER. Enough Tabasco to last you at least a week.

$37 at Country Store

Posted: 04 Jun, 2007 in Food and Drink

Giant Finocchiana

FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE Four pounds of exquisite artisan salami made with naturally raised pork and wild fennel seed. You’ll practically be able to smell it through your computer screen.

$50 at Zingerman's

(4 lbs.)

Posted: 29 May, 2007 in Food and Drink

FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE Show him you understand how much grilling season means to him. He’ll receive two bottles of small-batch barbecue sauce every month. Sign him up for three, six, or twelve months.

$60 at Amazing Clubs

((for three months)

Posted: 29 May, 2007 in Food and Drink

Laphroaig 10 Year Old Cask Strength

FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE This cask-strength single malt tastes best when mellowed with a bit of spring water and a round of golf.

$62 at BevMo

Posted: 22 May, 2007 in Food and Drink

6-Cup King-Size Muffin Pan

Lets you make extra-tall cupcakes and muffins, like this. (via Not Martha)

$8 at Wilton

Posted: 07 May, 2007 in Food and Drink

Self-Seal Tea Bags

These will only seem revolutionary if you’ve been heat-sealing your hand-filled tea bags, or using the unattractive draping tube that cligs moistly to the side of your teacup. Self-seal bags let you spoon in your whole-leaf tea, then simply press shut. Lovely, lovely. Thanks, Heather!

$9 at Teanobi

Posted: 02 May, 2007 in Food and Drink

Dagoba Gift Box

MOTHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE Upgrade the emergency Hershey’s bar your mom keeps in her purse. This gift box contains twelve bars of top-notch organic chocolate, and a can of cacao powder for her morning mochas.

$55 at Dagoba

Posted: 18 Apr, 2007 in Food and Drink

My Jones Custom Soda

A case of Jones Soda with the photo of your choice on the label. Definitely use the one of your cat.

$35 at Jones Soda

(For a twelve pack.)

Posted: 30 Mar, 2007 in Food and Drink

Passport to Flavor Party Pack

Five limited edition Kettle Chip flavors . Now that’s a good weekend.

$20 at Kettle

Posted: 29 Mar, 2007 in Food and Drink

Stout Cheese Board

A selection of cheeses meant to be consumed with a solid stout – sort of a more masculine version of high tea.

$70 at Target

Posted: 16 Mar, 2007 in Food and Drink

Blue Bottle Coffee Subscription

Blue Bottle is a San Francisco-based small batch roaster that’s a little OCD about coffee. As their site says, “We take freshness and small-batch roasting to an extreme not considered practical anywhere else in the coffee business.” What does that mean exactly? Essentially, a cup of coffee so delicious that you feel it in your spine. The good news for you? They offer bean gift subscriptions. You need never sleep again.

$18 at Blue Bottle Coffee

(Per month)

Posted: 07 Mar, 2007 in Food and Drink

Variety Box of Sausage

OK. Nothing is funnier than sending someone a “variety box of sausages.” These sausages are made to order, and this box contains two five-pound packages of Italian Sausage and one each of the Classic and the Spicy. Ha. Sausage box.

$165 at Fra'Mani

(10 lbs)

Posted: 27 Feb, 2007 in Food and Drink

Apple-ation Apple Brandy

God bless a vintner with a pet project. Guy Davis decided to take advantage of the organic apple orchards in the Russian River Valley to make small batch apple brandy. Davis eschews the usual practice of fermenting just the apple juice; however, he leaves the peels and fruit in during fermentation for a deeper apple flavor. The results are spectacular. You could slave over an apple pie, or you could put a nice slow pour into a snifter.

$35 at Davis Family Vineyards

Posted: 23 Feb, 2007 in Food and Drink

Rejuvenation Gift Set

2007 VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT GUIDE Tea Forte’s choice teas come in aesthetically pleasing pyramid-shaped bags. The mesh bags even have wired tags that hook over the side of your cup, so you’ll never have to fish around in scalding tea for an escapee. This soothing gift set comes with a lidded tea cup, tiny trays for the used tea bags, and a selection of whole-leaf teas. It’s a bundle of calm escape, and you don’t even have to wrap it.

$40 at Tea Forte

Posted: 23 Jan, 2007 in Food and Drink

Old Cavendish Fruitcake

I’m mostly listing this because I think sending fruitcake on Christmas is funny, but also because these cakes got good reviews around the office. They’re packed with nuts and real dried fruits, as opposed to the weirdly colored fruity gels you find in most cakes. The consensus seemed to be, “If you like fruitcake, this is good fruitcake.”

$23 at Old Cavendish

(16 oz., shipping included)

Posted: 13 Dec, 2006 in Food and Drink

Garlic Crusher

STOCKING STUFFER GUIDE An easy-to-clean garlic press that won’t leave chunks of old, dried garlic in your fresh new meal.

$15 at Cooper Hewitt

Posted: 30 Nov, 2006 in Food and Drink

Snack-Size Deep Fryer

Finally! A deep fryer small enough to keep on the counter for all of his convenience frying needs. Seriously though, fresh potato chips? Yes, thank you.

$40 at Improvements Catalog

Posted: 07 Nov, 2006 in Food and Drink

Stout Cheese Board

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE A selection of cheeses meant to be consumed with a solid stout – sort of a more masculine version of high tea.

$70 at Target

Posted: 06 Nov, 2006 in Food and Drink