the Envy of cheEse lOverS EveRywhEre Cheeses of the World Gift Box
There aren’t many cheesemongers in America who put together a cheese selection like this. Few take the time to discover, select, age, care for and cut each cheese to order like we do. All the little steps add up. You can taste the difference. Five cheeses weigh in over two and a half lbs, serving 18-20. Gift boxed with sourdough bread. The BEGINNER ASSORTMENT focuses on five great, well aged versions of familiar cheeses. The EXPERIENCED ASSORTMENT gathers five rare and more adventurous cheese finds. G-COW-A beginner $100 G-COW-B experienced $130 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
EurOpeans hAve a wAy With clementines in chocolate Clementines in Chocolate from Italy
A rarely seen specialty from Calabria. The Favella Masseria Ranch is located near Sibari in Southern Italy, which, if you’re up on ancient Greek history, you might recognize as the place where the Sybarites lived and ate famously well. These clementines in chocolate fit right into the Sybarites’ hedonistic tradition: spectacular Calabrian oranges, soaked in a constantly refreshed bath of simple syrup for three weeks, cut in quarters, smothered in dark chocolate. Each piece is the size of a large chocolate truffle. If you slide it in your mouth all at once, the luscious orange syrup won’t drip down your chin. Better yet, be a Sybarite. Let it drip. P-CIC 12 piece box $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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figgy chocolate Chocolate Dipped Figs from Spain These once unheard of figs have become one of our most popular holiday gifts. Tender, sweeter than usual Parito figs are dried, filled with soft chocolate truffle cream and a hint of liqueur, then dipped in dark chocolate. They’re as good as they sound, perhaps better, and beat your mall-bought chocolates any day. The small sizes make great stocking stuffers, the bigger boxes perform amazing feats as host gifts. Any chocolate lover—which, let's face it, means 85% of humanity—will go gaga for them. P-RAB-3 3 piece box $7 P-RAB-6 6 piece box $12 P-RAB-9 9 piece box $18 P-RAB 16 piece box $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Zingerman’s Holiday Stollen Our delicious German style holiday cake is a long-standing Zingerman’s holiday tradition for folks looking for unique dessert ideas, great gifts and fine food for weekend brunch. If you haven’t had Stollen and wonder what all the fuss is about, just take a look at the ingredients: real butter, Bacardi® white rum, glacéed lemons, oranges, cherries, fresh lemon and orange zest, fresh lemon juice, almonds, golden raisins, Red Flame raisins, real vanilla beans and our very scent-sual Indonesian cinnamon. Toasted and spread with a little sweet butter, it’s delicious and is perhaps rivaled only by our own coffeecake (p. 10) as a great afternoon snack cake. Each Stollen comes gift boxed, serves 6-8 and, barring extensive snacking, lasts for weeks. G-STO gift boxed stollen $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
keep your stOckingS on Christmas Goodies Gift Box This box probably won’t fit into their stocking. But it’s so good looking and tasty they might want to hide it anyway. Make everyone jealous by sending our signature wooden gift box filled with an Original Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar, our mini Hot Cocoa Coffeecake, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs, a half pound of our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, a small Zingerman’s Stollen, Spiced Pecans and a box of Zingerman's Pfeffernüsse Cookies. G-CGG christmas goodies gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Fancy Schmancy Holiday Cookie Box
This gift box has three different styles of Christmas cookies baked with all-natural ingredients and gift boxed at Zingerman’s Bakehouse. Makes a great host gift. Toasted Pecan Butter Balls, Pfeffernüsse Spice Cookies and Chocolate Cherry Chewies with Valrhona chocolate and dried cherries. P-TIN 18 cookie gift box $20
Zingerman's Spiced Pecans
Pecans toasted with butter, lots of freshly ground Tellicherry black pepper, Jamaican allspice, ground ginger, cloves and more. The nuts cluster together in little caramelly-spicy handfuls, making it way too easy to eat too many. I recommend two: a bag for eating and a gift tin for those times when a quick host present comes in handy. P-PCN 12 oz gift quart paint tin $25 P-S-PCN 5 oz letterpress bag $12
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A spicy sweet German tradition Lebkuchen
Sandy Lee fell in love with lebkuchen, the traditional German Christmas cookie, while living in Berlin. “It was like nothing I’d ever tasted,” she recalls. “I couldn’t get all those complex flavors out of my head.” She became obsessed, learning all she could about them before returning to the States and starting her own lebkuchen bakery. The recipe dates back to Medieval times and has many steps. The dough is made from almond and hazelnut flours, whole almonds, egg whites, honey, marzipan and a bevy of spices. The dense dough rests for nearly a day before heading to the oven. The finished cookies are hand glazed and studded with almonds (classic variety) or cloaked in dark chocolate. You will find three classic and two chocolate cookies in this fire engine red tin. Each is about four inches across and an inch tall. They’re thick, moist, slightly spicy, sweet and very nutty. The consistency is a cross between cake and marzipan, making them the perfect after dinner treat with coffee or tea. Although traditionally intended to keep for months, I think these sweet, spicy, nutty treats will only last a few days (or hours!) at your house. A cookie with history, a perfect gift for anyone on your list. P-LEB 5 cookie tin, 1 lb $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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You know it's Christmas in Italy when the panettone start appearing in shop windows. They're the fluffy, tall cakes that are seasoned with candied citrus and packaged like something you'd give the Pope. We’ve had great traditional Italian panettone every Christmas since our doors opened in 1982. Now we have two new twists.
the classic
dark twist
luscious discovery
If Italy had to elect a national Christmas dessert, this would be the top candidate. The texture is fluffy as a pillow, the candied citrus-studded dough peels off in strips like cotton candy. What you can’t finish after dinner makes fantastic French toast. Wrapped and ribboned for gifting. P-ANE 750 g, serves 10-12 $50
Balsamic is laced through this cake, forming a ribbon of dark glaze. Instead of finding panettone’s traditional gems of dried fruit you’ll discover veins of cherry-sweet, luscious caramel. The gift box is vintage Italian graphic design, classically gorgeous. P-BPN 750 g cake, serves 10-12 $80
New—just this year we laid our hands on this beauty: a classic panettone cake that hides luscious pockets of tender figs and bits of chocolate. Wrapped and ribboned in typically gorgeous fashion, it makes a beautiful gift for a chocolate-and-fruit fan. P-CPN 750 g cake, serves 10-12 $65
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Chocolate and Fig Panettone
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Full disclosure: the price on these fruitcakes may cause sticker shock. Where most fruit cakes are cheap, somewhat industrial and terrible, these are another species altogether. Crafted by Robert Lambert from rare citrus that he picks and candies himself. A slice cut thin while the cake is cool—I recommend serving it chilled—looks like a stained glass window and has a revelation of flavors.
White RARE Citrus Fruitcake
Dark rARe citrus fruitCake
Robert's classic cake, the one we've offered for many years. It's by far the best of its kind I’ve ever tried. Robert says, “The recipe is British, Victorian era. It’s based on my grandmother Flora's cake, but instead of the store-bought glacéed fruits she used I make my own candied fruit.” He chooses blood oranges, bergamots, Rangpur limes and more, many that he picks himself. Each cake is soaked in cognac and aged for a few months, then garnished with a slice of candied fruit and a bay leaf, all wrapped gently in cheese cloth. It tastes fresh, clean and lively. Comes wrapped in a muslin bag. P-KUY 1 lb fruit cake, six inches long, serves 8-10 $65
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A decade ago we tasted Robert Lambert’s White Fruit Cake and it forever changed our minds about how great fruitcake could be. Now it’s time to double down. For his Dark Fruit Cake, Robert starts by candying exotic citrus like Buddha’s hand citron, bergamot, blood orange, Texas lemon and white grapefruit peels. He adds hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, dark raisins, prunes, black figs soaked in Poire William eau de vie—oh yes, there’s more—dates, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, 10-year-old Ficklin port, and a bit of candied ginger. Then, wait for it... he soaks it all in bourbon. Like everything Robert creates, these cakes are made by hand, in small-batches with an obsessive attention to detail. The flavor is phenomenal. Comes wrapped in a muslin bag. P-RLD 1 lb fruit cake, six inches long, serves 8-10 $65
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Vintage WHITE RaRE CITrus Fruitcake
If you already consider fruit cake a joke the idea of a vintage fruit cake must seem like a real marketer’s whopper. Selling last year’s fruit cakes? Yes, that’s exactly what we’re doing. In the summer of 2013 Robert made a little over one hundred of his rare citrus fruit cakes to age. He cellared them in California. Over the last year the flavor has developed, expanded and gotten more complex. Like a wine that was fun while young, more serious now that its aged, these fruit cakes have become a real afficianado's treat. Get yours quick, they sell out quickly every year. P-VTG 1 lb, gift boxed, six inches long, serves 8-10 $90
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rum and chocOlate, ItalIan sTyLe Rum Cunesi Truffles
A unique chocolate served with immense style. Cunesi are rum and chocolate truffles, each massaged until it's as smooth as silk. A single cunesi just barely fits in your mouth. The chocolate pops and cracks and the rum seeps through the flavor, down your throat like molten lava. Packaged in gorgeous red and gold boxes. From Venchi, our long-time supplier of Hazelnut and Chocolate Spread (next page) from Turin. P-HGU gift box of 9 $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Spanish Drinking Chocolate In Spain they’ll drink this morning, noon and night. Stateside, it's hard to get our hands on it. When the chance presents itself we jump at it—if you see it in stock, my advice is to buy it. You can make it as thick as you want by mixing the chocolate pellets with milk. For a truly indulgent chocolate experience, go heavy on the chocolate. Slow, low heat, constant stirring and a little patience will produce one of the most luscious and rich elixirs you've ever sipped. This is one hot chocolate we adults can keep all to ourselves. P-ROV 330 g box, 8 servings $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Hang it, eat it
ancient trade Red Pepper Truffles
Bonajuto has been making chocolate in the baroque Sicilian town of Modica since 1880. By that time Gustav Lindt had perfected conching, the process that makes chocolate smooth. Nearly every European chocolate maker adopted it. Bonajuto didn’t. They continued to make unconched chocolate, the texture crunchy in comparison. Nowadays that texture has come somewhat back in fashion. Here, you can experience it as it was and always has been. This gift box has bite sized truffles spiced with just a hint of red pepper, another typical addition to 19th century chocolate. An outstanding gift for a chocolate lover—or history buff. P-BON-TRU 20 truffle box $35
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Chocolate Christmas Ornament One of the prettiest foods we’ve found in years. Well, the packaging at least. What’s inside is just plain tasty. Belgian chocolate spheres hand wrapped in decorative foil, capped and strung with a ribbon, ready to hang on the tree or attach to gifts. The patterns are styled after those favored by Peter the Great, who, apparently, had time to pick his favorite wrapping paper in between founding St. Petersburg and declaring war on Sweden. They lend your tree a little Russian aristocratic flair, which goes surprisingly well with Modern American Christmas. Guaranteed to turn the chore of breaking down the tree into a welcome event. P-YCP-4 box of four chocolate ornaments $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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In Italy it can seem like every town has a sweet that they're famous for. Here are two of our favorites, the youngest of which has "only" been made for three centuries.
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Amaretti del Chiostro Cookies For almost three centuries, way up in Lombardy near the Swiss border, the Lazzaroni family has made this simple, unique cookie in the town of Saronno. Its secret ingredient is a small dose of apricot “kernels” (here we call them “pits,” but the Italians have such a nice way with language let's not change it). They add a tiny edge of refreshing bitterness to the crispy, crunchy, nutty cookie. A bright, fun gift tin holds about twenty cookies, each individually wrapped in beautiful wax bakery paper. Gluten free. P-ACC 20 cookies in tin $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
siena's christmas cake Panforte
Panforte has been made in the Tuscan city of Siena for centuries. The story goes that it was eaten by crusaders as they passed through on their way to fight various infidels. Made with candied fruits, nuts, spices, and a bit of honey to pull it all together. It's kind of like a medieval power bar. You could still take panforte with you to fight your own epic battles, but today it's traditionally eaten at Christmas. Panforte Margherita is one of the most classic combinations of flavors: candied citrus peel, almonds, and spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. The cake isn't leavened, so it has a texture similar to a dense brownie. It's phenomenal with a cup of coffee, alongside a nibble of cheese, or matched with a dessert wine like Vin Santo. A little goes a long way, and since it keeps so well you can put slices of panforte on your holiday dessert trays over multiple nights–it won’t go stale. P-PMG 8.8 oz serves 6-8 $29 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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In the Piedmont, around Turin, the hazelnut-and-chocolate combination called gianduja is ubiquitous. It's the sexy sister to Nutella. These are our two favorites. Spread some on toasted Chocolate Sourdough Bread (p. 27) for breakfast. Top off ice cream with a spoonful. Amazing.
Deluxe Gianduja from Venchi This stuff is to Nutella® what a dark chocolate Valrhona bar is to Hershey’s®. It's got way more flavor, way more character. Italian Piemontese hazelnuts are ground fine then mixed into a smooth chocolate cream that has a texture somewhere between mousse and fudge. P-IHZ 350 g jar $23
Ultimate Gianduja from Guido Gobino At 35% roasted Piemontese hazelnuts—double that of Venchi—Guido Gobin's gianduja is the most intense, most luxurious version you can find. Made in his small sweets factory in the center of Torino, this is a stellar treat for a sweet lover. P-GCM 220 g $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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calabrian citrus Chocolate Covered Orange Peels Calabria, in Southern Italy, is to citrus what Maine is to blueberries. You can find the same fruit elsewhere, but it’s rarely better. For fifty years the folks at Dolci Pensieri di Calabria have been preserving their province’s amazing fruit. We found them a decade ago, long after they had mastered their craft. They start with fresh, aromatic Calabrian oranges. They’re peeled by hand, all the pith is removed and the peels are cut into strips. They’re candied in a sugar bath and put in an oven at low heat for hours and hours to caramelize slightly. Finally, they’re hand dipped into a bath of 40 percent cacao chocolate and laid out to cool. The result is one of those sweet treats that looks simple but has a complex, lingering flavor that you can’t quit. The slight bitterness of the orange peel is tamed by the smooth coat of chocolate, leaving a clean, fruity finish in your mouth as the chocolate melts. If you’re like me and avoid most citrus-flavored chocolates because of their chemical aftertaste these will change your whole outlook. P-OCP 150 g box $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
HolIday cLasSic Marrons Glacés from Italy One French expat who used to work at our Deli told me he would “crawl a mile on his hands and knees for these marrons glacés.” You don't have to go to such extremes, but I'd definitely recommend trying them. Despite the French name, Marrons Glacés are an invention of Northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Having tasted a whole bunch of them over many years, I can confidently say that the ones the Bardini brothers make near the town of Cuneo are my favorites. The chestnuts are aged for a week while submerged in water in underground caves. Later, they soak in a vanilla-scented sugar syrup bath, during which time the syrup is slowly pulled into the center of the chestnut. Last, they’re rolled in sugar and boxed. A surefire gift success with anyone of European origin and a great gift for chestnut lovers of any origin. P-MRN box of 8 marrons glacés $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
dancing in their heads Elvas Sugarplums from Portugal We all know the line from The Night Before Christmas. If you’re like me, you might have thought the snugly nestled kids were hallucinating: visions of sugarplums? Let me assure you, they’re real. The long process of preserving and sweetening greengage plums—somewhat similar to what happens with marrons glacés candied chestnuts, see above—prevents the sugar from crystallizing. Slightly sweet, green, fuzzy on the outside like a peach. (They have a pit, so watch out.) Remarkably, the texture is firm, like a plum you’ve just picked. An English and Portuguese tradition, they're almost impossible to find in America. Nine sugarplums in a round wooden crate. Makes an exquisite gift for someone who’s tried just about everything. P-UGA 9 sugarplums in wood crate $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Hazelnut Nougat from Piemonte
pingo de mel Preserved Honey Figs I’ve never had anything like this. Portuguese pingo de mel figs —“honey drop,” so named because they drip sugar when they’re ripe—from the Alentejo region, preserved in sugar by the same group of nuns who make our sugarplums (below left). Hold one up to the light. First, notice it’s improbably heavy when you pick it up. Next, look how it glows from within. The texture is like candied chestnut but not as chalky. The flavor opens up after you taste, the dominant flavor of caramelized honey goes on and on, lingering long after you swallow. I swear eating one made me high. P-HFG 9 figs in wood crate $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
David Barbero’s family has been making torrone (hazelnut nougat) since 1883 in the town of Asti, but that hasn’t seemed to dull his passion for it. When you ask him about nougat his eyes light up and he talks in fast, clipped English. “We don’t kill the torrone! Industrial makers use no egg whites and they crank out a batch in an hour. They beat the mixture fast and use lots of pressure. Ours takes seven hours, we break for lunch! We use real egg whites. All of this makes our texture crumbly, not hard and tough. Here, take a bite, you can taste.” He is right, and I love the fact that he mentions lunch. Barbero torrone is gently crumbly, delicious, spiked with loads of famous Piemontese hazelnuts. And in this classic Northern Italian graphic-designed tin (500 g tin illustrated), it makes a great gift. P-DBT 500 g tin of large tiles $55 P-DBT-SML 100 g tin of small pieces $15 P-CTN 100 g tin chocolate covered $15 EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
chEese or iCe cream, southern nOugat Pistachio Nougat from Sicily you're COvered Now in her 80s, Maria Grammatico has been making torrone for over seven decades. Her Sicilian shop is considered a treasure, a EIther Way destination for travelers. Everything about her torrone is done by
Italian Wild Cherries in Syrup
Wild Italian cherries from Piedmont, prepared in small batches so they do not bruise, packed with syrup in a resealable glass jar. We bring in a small quantity each holiday and their fans gobble them up. The cherries are great for topping ice cream or to annoint a smear of rich, creamy cheese. They’ll last indefinitely. A Zingerman’s staff favorite for years. P-AGR-CHE 680 g jar $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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hand right down to the plain individual wrapping of the bars. If you buy one of these I guarantee that when you see it you will be underwhelmed. Maria is clearly not spending her time on packaging. When you taste it, however, you will be utterly blown away. Torrone is typically very sweet, but this is more complex in flavor and texture than any other soft torrone I’ve had. The pistachio flavor rings through. Outstanding stuff. P-TOR 200 g piece $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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–FRESSER– Large, serve 10-12 easily Our perennial best sellers, baked from scratch, now travel free to any destination in the lower 48. Choose from one of our classics or deluxers, pick your packaging, and we’ll get it to excited mouths post haste.
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Each lasts for two weeks on the counter. Frozen they’ll hibernate for months.
Our four standbys, including the all-time best selling gift in our entire catalog, the sourcream coffeecake
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SOURCREAM
The legend. Toasted walnuts, thick streams of Indonesian cinnamon, creamy texture, huge flavor. A-SCC-L large in box $55 G-SCC-L large in crate $65 A-SCC-S small in box $40 G-SCC-S small in crate $45
HOT COCOA
GINGERBREAD
Crystallized ginger, dark molasses, coffee, fresh orange juice and loads of winter spices. A-GGC-L large in box $55 G-GGC-L large in crate $65 A-GGC-S small in box $40 G-GGC-S small in crate $45
NEW DELI
Our new classic. Butter crumble topping with pistachio, clove, cardamom, coconut and more. A-NDC-L large in box $55 G-NDC-L large in crate $65 A-NDC-S small in box $40 G-NDC-S small in crate $45
With dark cocoa, a touch of espresso and chunks of dark chocolate that go molten if you heat it. A-COA-L large in box $55 G-COA-L large in crate $65 A-COA-S small in box $40 G-COA-S small in crate $45
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LEMON POPPYSEED
Real lemon oil and a veritable passel of Dutch poppy seeds, plus loads of real butter and Madagascar vanilla. A-LMC-L large in box $55 G-LMC-L large in crate $65 A-LMC-S small in box $40 G-LMC-S small in crate $45
WILD BLUEBERRY
Technically, it's a buckle, but let's not quibble over terms—it's delicious. Topped with a butter-crumble crust. A-BUC-L large in box $55 G-BUC-L large in crate $65 A-BUC-S small in box $40 G-BUC-S small in crate $45
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Sturdy, re-usable, way fun. Illustrated by our one-and-only Ian Nagy. Made with recycled cardboard.
Crafted in Wisconsin by the country’s last cheese crate maker. The Zingerman’s logo is silk screened on the lid.
–SMALL NOSHER– Innovative coffeecakes, made with a slightly more adventurous set of ingredients.
OLIVE OIL
Toasted almonds, lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon's worth per cake—and lots of extra-virgin olive oil. Olive oil retains more moisture than butter so it's soft and silky, like it just came out of the oven, even days after you receive it. A-OOC-S small in box $45 G-OOC-S small, crate $50
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APPLE BACON
Chunks of apples and pieces of Nueske’s amazing Applewood Smoked Bacon are mixed with top-notch ingredients like Indonesian cinnamon and real sour cream from Guernsey Farm in Northville, Michigan. A-BCF-S small in box $45 G-BCF-S small, crate $50
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sweEt loves Savory Sweet & Savory Gift Box A dialectic on love, in edible form. There's time for hours of debate and compromise as the gift recipient works through this gift box, including: La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Mo's Bacon Chocolate Bar, Chocolate Covered Spanish Figs, Dutch Gouda, Triple Trouble Chocolate Cookie, Sea Salt-topped Blondie, Spanish Olive Oil Elephant Ear Tortas, Butter Toasted Virginia Peanuts, Raspberry Cosmic Cake. G-SAS sweet & savory gift box $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
behold! The Jawdropper
A far-reaching and many-pleasing assortment of eat immediately foods, from pastries and cheese to cured meats and sapid sweets. Includes our Buenos Aires Dulce de Leche Brownie, Walnut-studded Magic Brownie, Sea Salt Topped Pecan Blondie, Cosmic Cake, Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, a mixed box of Classic Currant Walnut and Apricot Rugelach, Chocolate Banana Bread, a nosher sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Classic Currant Scone and Ginger Scone, Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans, Nor’easter Cheddar, Dutch Gouda, Antique Gruyère, Borsellino Salami, Speck Cured Pork Loin, Spicy Cashews with Lime Leaves, Peanut Brittle, Pfeffernüsse Christmas Cookies, Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, Zzang! Candy Bar, and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee ground and ready to brew. All packed in our gigantic wooden cheese crate, re-purposes nicely as a puppy storage unit. G-JAW gift box, serves 25 no problem $250 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Beyond the maLl Cinnful Cinnamon Roll Gift Box Almost anyone can make a cinnamon roll smell good while it’s baking, even among the cell phone kiosks at the mall. Unfortunately, most have little more than aroma to offer. You won’t taste much beyond sugar and cinnamon. The real challenge is to fashion a cinnamon roll that tastes as good as it smells. These fit the bill. Warm them up, break one open and put your nose up close. You’ll smell sweet butter, Indonesian cinnamon, real vanilla. But the real treat is next. Take one bite. That’s all you’ll need to forget the litany of cinnamon roll disappointments life has dealt you. With serving instructions. G-CIN ten roll tin in wooden crate $40 A-CIN ten roll tin in cartoon gift box $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Zingerman’s Holiday Bread Box We send thousands of our artisanal loaves to tables across America every Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you can’t make a holiday gathering send these and they won’t miss you. You can pick your own assortment to serve on p. 22-24 but if you’d like to get four of the season’s favorites, just ask for this gift box. Our holiday bread box contains Farm Bread, Cranberry Pecan, Roadhouse and Chocolate Sourdough Breads. G-HBB holiday bread box $55 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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The Weekender This is a great all-purpose gift, built from foods the recipient can snack on right out of the box. Whatever the occasion, folks will dig right in. The Weekender, hand assembled in our cartooned gift box (illustrated) has a loaf of Zingerman’s Artisan Bread, a couple of Brownies (Walnut-studded Magic Brownie and a Caramel Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie), La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, a half pound of our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar and a nosher-sized version of our extremely popular, extremely good Sourcream Coffeecake. G-WEE weekender gift box $75 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
The Long Weekender, packed in a handsome wooden crate, includes all the items in the Weekender plus Zingerman’s freshly roasted Coffee, Smooch Lion Natural Gummies, Zingerman’s Banana Bread, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs and our Chocolate Sourdough Bread. G-LWE long weekender $175 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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Classic Banana Bread & Chocolate Chunk Banana Bread
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The diabolical pastry enablers at Zingerman’s Bakehouse have focused their dark magic on classic banana bread. Like our hugely popular sourcream coffeecake and magic brownies, banana bread instantly conjures up nostalgia for home baking. The thing is, this loaf tastes better than what mom used to make (no offense intended, moms, it’s just hard to beat our Bakehouse). There are no nuts in these loaves, just the classic charms: flour, cane sugar, real butter and fresh eggs, a touch of Madagascar vanilla and two freshly peeled bananas per loaf. Chocolate chunk banana bread is the same story, with the addition of huge chunks of chocolate. Wrapped in tissue, each loaf comes packed in its own colorfully illustrated box. Serves 5-7. G-BNA classic banana bread, gift boxed $20 G-BNC chocolate, gift boxed $20
For sweet teeth of the adult variety. Our printed gift box includes Sea Salt Caramels, Vosges Chocolate Covered Marshmallows, Zingerman’s Stovetop Peanut Brittle, Hammonds Candies Lollipop, Original Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar, RJ’s New Zealand Licorice, Smooch Lion Gummies and Italian Fruit Jellies. G-CDY big kid candy gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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"A challenge to Jewish grannies everywhere." John Thorne, Simple Cooking
Superstar Assortment Rugelach and Hamentaschen Box Our two favorite Jewish baked goods in two different flavors. Classic cinnamon currant and chocolate rugelach with vanilla cream cheese and apricot hamentaschen. P-RHN 8 pieces rugelach, 6 pieces hamentaschen $30
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Hamentaschen
Rugelach
Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese, Poppyseed, Apricot
Walnut & Currant, Apricot, Chocolate & Raspberry
Hamentaschen are the triangle-shaped, open-faced cookie dough pastries usually eaten during the Jewish celebration of Purim. The rest of the year they usually disappear. It’s clear Purim is much too brief a holiday to get your fill so we’re making the move to bake them all year long. We load the simple real-butter dough with an assortment of traditional fillings: vanilla bean cream cheese, poppyseed and apricot. You can skip the tradition and eat them when you’d like: Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day, whenever. P-HAM 12 piece gift box $30
Rugelach are the royalty of Jewish baked goods: crispy, flaky, cream cheese pastry, dressed in cinnamon sugar. Shaped in little open-sided rolls you take a couple bites, a shower of sugar and cinnamon fills your fingers and you're done. Then you reach for another. We offer two gift boxes. One with half classic toasted walnut with currants and half apricot, the other with half chocolate, half raspberry. P-RUG 8 classic & 8 apricot $30 P-RCR 8 chocolate & 8 raspberry $30
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Coconut Macaroons
Mandelbread
Vanilla Bean, Chocolate
Traditionally they're for Passover, but I'm on a mission to have us eating macaroons all year long. Why hold back when they're this good? Our coconut macaroons are slightly crunchy on the outside, rich and creamy on the inside. Baked with Madagascar Vanilla or Belgian Chocolate. Simply put, they're the best-tasting coconut macaroons I’ve ever had anywhere, with a buttery, coconut aroma that stays with you like a strong memory. A-MAC 6 vanilla, 6 chocolate, gift boxed $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Toasted Almond
Toasted almonds get the spotlight here. There’s a ton of them. Almost more than can fit. The rest of the mandelbread is held together with fresh eggs and sweet butter, and the flavor is amplified with fresh lemon and orange zest along with a dose of real vanilla. Mandelbread are Jewish style biscotti, but I think they're almost closer to shortbread. Crunchy, crispy and very dunkable in coffee or milk. P-MND 21 piece gift box $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Chocolate Menorah by Michel Cluizel We’ve been hunting for Chanukah gifts like these for years and we finally found this Kosher work of art from master French Chocolatier, Michel Cluizel. Each candle is cast in solid dark (55%) chocolate from the base to the flame. A fun, clever and delicious way to celebrate the holiday. About 6 inches long, 4 inches tall, 100% delicious. Quantities limited. P-MNR chocolate menorah $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Zingerman’s Olive Oil Cake Made with toasted almonds, lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon’s worth per cake—and lots of excellent extra virgin olive oil. It’s moist, tender, with a flavor that lingers long after the slice is sent south. The olive oil makes the cake retain more moisture than butter so it has a lovely, soft texture that stays that way for days and days. The oil also makes the cake an appropriate symbolic dish for Chanukah. We send each cake safely and attractively packaged in our cartoon box or handsome wooden crate. Serves 5-7. A-OOC-S gift boxed in cartoon box $45 G-OOC-S gift boxed in wooden crate $50 FREE SHIPPING
gelt Grown up Chanukah Gelt
chanukah's sweets Chanukah Gift Box
Keep them noshing during the holiday with our printed gift box stuffed with a gift box of Rugelach and Hamentaschen, a Chocolate Menorah and our Olive Oil Cake. G-CHA chanukah gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
The best tasting—and most authentic looking—gelt I’ve ever encountered. Gold and silver dusted disks (no foil wrapping here) from Veruca Chocolates in Chicago are formed to look like Judean coins circa 40 B.C. The real treasure is their flavor: dark chocolate with crunchy crystals of sea salt, an adult balance of sweet and savory. A great gift for every day of Chanukah. Quantities limited. P-GLT 16 piece box $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Zingerman’s Buttercream Cakes
The pastry magicians at Zingerman’s Bakehouse love baking cakes above all else. Wedding cakes, birthday cakes, coffee cakes, everyday cakes—whenever there are cakes to bake you can bet they’ll be excited and what comes out of the oven will be incredibly tasty. The fondant cakes are the show-stoppers, with their intricate decorations (see our birthday cake, p. 54). Coffee cakes are our everyday best sellers (p. 10). But here in Ann Arbor, special occasions are marked most often by buttercream cakes. They're something our mail order customers probably don't know about because we’ve never shipped one. This marks the first holiday these local heroes make the trip out of state. Why the wait? They are delicate, and it took us a couple of years of practice to engineer the packaging so they could travel by UPS. Now they can, and your next celebration is going to be all the better for it. The showpiece on each cake is traditional buttercream frosting. Swiss style, it's made by whipping fresh eggs and sugar into a meringue, then mixing in real Wisconsin butter and Madagascar vanilla. Our cakes are also marked by what they don't contain: no artificial anything, no mixes, no shortening. These are the ingredients your grandmother would use when she baked. Each cake is six inches in diameter, four inches high, about 1 ¾ lbs and serves 6-8. Ships frozen. Defrost and serve at room temperature for maximum flavor and attractiveness.
Neato-politan
Merry Mint
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Three flavors in one bite. Chocolate cake and fresh strawberry buttercream inside. It's all covered in Madagascar vanilla Swiss buttercream frosting. A-NEA $75
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Chocolate cake filled with a rich chocolate mint buttercream then iced with vanilla buttercream. Cloaked in crushed peppermint. A-MER $75
Apple butter cake with dulce de leche buttercream inside and out. Wrapped in crispy pieces of toasted cake crumble. Ever so slightly spiced with fall flavors. A-SPI $75
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Create your own assortment of Zingerman's big brownies, stellar cookies, creamy scones and cosmic cakes. Choose your mix and give us a ring. Visit www.zingermans.com where you can customize your box online. Your personal selection is hand packed to order in our fun cartoon gift box.
Magic Brownie
Ginger Jump-Up
Vanilla
Currant
Classic with toasted walnuts.
Muscovado brown sugar and chunks of crystallized ginger.
Real Madagascar vanilla.
With dried currants.
Oatmeal Raisin
Chocolate Mint
Classic minus the nuts
Lemon
Buenos Aires
With maple syrup, organic oats and giant red flame raisins
Peppermint buttercream.
Brownie sandwiching a layer of dulce de leche.
Chocolate Chunk
Townie
Big pieces of chocolate and toasted walnuts
Gluten free* with amaranth and quinoa, not wheat.
Triple Chocolate
Black Magic
* Not made in a gluten free facility
Blondie No-chocolate with pecan praline, sea salt-topped.
Chunks of caramelized milk chocolate from Valrhona, melted dark chocolate and cocoa.
Sky's the Lemon With fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and candied lemon.
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Raspberry Raspberry buttercream and topped with a raspberry made of fondant.
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With candied lemon zest.
Ginger Spicy, crystallized ginger.
Cheddar Herb A savory scone with cheddar and fresh rosemary.
Country Scone A rustic special with organic rolled oats, pecans, red flame raisins and cinnamon sugar.
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Bacon Learn more about our top selLing bacONS online Spencer's Back Bacon
Wisconsin Applewood Smoked The house bacon at Zingerman’s Deli and our top seller. R.W. Apple called it "the beluga of bacon, the Rolls-Royce of rashers." Custom sliced on the thick side, exclusively for Zingerman's. M-BAC 1 lb, sliced $17 M-SLAB 5-6 lb slab, whole $80 EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Back bacon is basically pork loin with a bit of the side bacon attached, dry cured, then smoked. It's what they call bacon in Britain and Ireland. M-IRI 8 oz sliced $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Burgers' Jowl Bacon Jowl bacon slices come a bit smaller than belly bacon and the fat is creamier, more delicate. It fries up more quickly, so make sure to watch it closely. M-JWL 1 lb, sliced $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Allan Benton's Dry Cured The most intense bacon we carry, definitely not for everyone. Prized by chefs, including David Chang of Momofuku. M-BBT 1 lb sliced $17 EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Arkansas Peppered Bacon Hickory smoked and wrapped in a sweet and spicy jacket of black peppercorns. M-ARK 12 oz sliced $14 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Cherrywood Bacon Smoked with cherrywood for just over twenty-four hours. Cured with celery-based nitrate so it bears the odd label "uncured". M-CHY 12 oz, sliced $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Nodine's Juniper Smoked Bacon The flavor is sweet, the aroma lightly smoky with some juniper pine present. For those who like their bacon on the lighter end of the spectrum. M-JUN 1 lb sliced $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Arkansas Long Pepper Bacon Coated with aromatic Balinese long pepper. Exotic and down home at the same time. M-ALP 1 lb sliced $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Heirloom Berkshire Dry Cured Sam Edwards gets special hog bellies from heirloom breed Berkshire hogs, renowned for their full flavor. Smoked over green hickory. It's not as intense as Benton's bacon, but it isn't for the faint of heart, either. M-ECB 12 oz sliced $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Salamis and sausages are made by grinding different cuts and merging them to cure. Primals are made by curing whole cuts, like loins and hams. Here are two of my favorites.
meat chOcolaTE Ibérico Bellota Pork Loin
Shocking. There’s no other way to describe the experience of first tasting cured bellota pork—in this case, the loin made from heirloom Ibérico pigs who’ve feasted on acorns (bellotas) the last months of their lives. The acorn diet has a magical effect on the meat’s texture. It appears to lower the fat’s melting point to body temperature. Eating a thin slice is like placing a piece of chocolate on your tongue—it immediately puddles, the flavor releasing itself in the process. M-LOM about 1.1 lbs $150
made for the mountains Speck
A lean piece of pork, cut from the rear leg, rubbed with sea salt and smoked over apple wood. Where prosciutto is delicate and subtle this is chewy and robust, earthy and rich, sweet and smoky. From La Quercia. M-SPK 3 oz sliced $14 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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The insider's pick
Broadbent Kentucky Sausage
Fresh pork, sage and red pepper, stuffed into a cloth bag, smoked and air dried. Our staff's favorite sausage. M-BRB 1 lb $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
and now for spreadable meat
Nduja from La Quercia
Nduja is a specialty of Calabria in Italy, where they love chiles and anything spicy. It's a salami of a sort, but rather than coarsely grinding meat and making it sliceable, this is ground even finer so it's spreadable. Traditionally, this would have been made from the “poor cuts” of preserved pork. Enter La Quercia, American Prosciutto makers in Norwalk, Iowa. Herb and Kathy make their Nduja from prosciutto and speck, the polar opposite of poor cuts. The meats are ground and blended with red pepper to make a spreadable treat that spices up all sorts of dishes. Toss a dollop with pasta, spread it on a burger, vegetables, or good crusty bread. Any dish that could use a little character is fair game. It’s spicy, but not terribly hot, so go to town. M-NDJ 12 oz package $29 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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the next best thing
Crespone Salami
Living in America we are forbidden from importing Cuban cigars, Iranian saffron—and Italian salami. I know, the salami ban makes little sense to me, either. But the FDA makes the rules. We're left with the next best thing which, to be honest, has gotten quite good: the cured meets from the recipes of Francois Vecchio. Made in the style of Verona a coarse cut creation, with thick, natural pork casings. The casings let the meat age more slowly. Time costs money, of course, but it’s worth it, offering up a salami that's sweeter, more soft and succulent and more perfumed than any around. We ship them whole. You trim the casing (it’s OK to eat, but I prefer to peel it off) and slice what you'd like. M-CRE crespone, about 2/3 lb $26 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Italian via iowa Borsellino Salamis
La Quercia's borsellino sausage is soft, sweet, porky and even a little earthy. Somewhere between a quarter and a half-dollar in diameter, its natural casing is stuffed with pork that's coarsely ground, liberally littered with morsels of fat. They're mild but substantial, without the heavy salting that you often find in other salamis. Serve them on a cheese plate or toss chunks into pasta or salads. Throw one into your backpack the next time you head out for a hike, borsellino can go for hours—or days— without refrigeration. Like all their meats, La Quercia's salamis are made from hogs raised naturally, without hormones or sub-theraputic antibiotics. M-DSG 6 oz classic $12 M-SDS 6 oz piccante slightly spicy $12 M-SKB 6 oz smoked $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Wild Boar Salami
Outstanding Texas wild boar mixed with all natural pork belly, seasoned with cloves and juniper berries. It's the lean, funky cousin to traditional salami, influenced by the boar's outdoor diet of roots, grasses and wild berries. Made by Cristiano Creminelli in Utah. M-WLD 7 oz salami $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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24 hour energy meat Salami Musica
Salami Musica was originally made for salami maestro Christiano Creminelli’s hometown music festival. The party lasts twenty-four hours and the band requested meat that could keep them going all night. Move over, 5 hour energy drink. Here’s the 24 hour energy meat. Spiked with 10% pork liver which gives it extra gusto. M-MUS 7 oz $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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La Quercia Prosciutto Americano Cured Ham If you want to get an introduction to cured American ham you couldn’t do much better than to start with Prosciutto Americano. This is La Quercia's mildest, most straightforward cured meat, the one they sell more of than any other. It’ll remind you of Italian prosciutto but the flavors are more forward and there’s more of a mineral tang to the finish. While Italian prosciutto is made with standard breed white pigs raised without any guarantee of their conditions, this is made exclusively from Niman Ranch naturally raised pork. There are no hormones, no sub-therapeutic antibiotics. The pigs are far from being confined; they have access to the outof-doors and room to root and roam. The pork is not smoked; it's simply cured with sea salt and hung to age for just under a year at Herb’s cured ham house in Norwalk, Iowa. M-PAM whole, deboned, unsliced, about 7 lbs $275 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Broadbent Smoked Cured Ham If you're new to American cured ham, here's another place to start. Broadbent is a classic salt-cured and smoked ham (unlike Prosciutto Americano, above, which is not smoked). It's made by Ronnie and Beth Drennan in southern Kentucky. It's from standard breed pigs, smoked gently, aged just under a year, making it milder than many other American hams we sell which are aged for longer. M-BKM whole, bone-in unsliced, 12-14 lbs $130 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
heirloOm of HEIRLOoMs
Iberico Dry Cured Ham
Iberico pigs are basically the heirloom breed of heirloom breeds, the flavor standard against which all other pork for cured meats is measured. Its flavor and unique melt-on-the-tongue fat is unmatched by any other meat out there. In Spain, Iberico is served and eaten as simply as simple can be. No melon, no fruit, no nuts—just a plate with ham. Here it's sliced paper thin, like Prosciutto di Parma. Serve Iberico ham at room temperature. The eating experience is radically better that way. M-BLR 2 ounces, sliced very thin $20
We maintain dozens of cured hams in our aging vault, ready to be shipped to pork-o-philes at a moment's notice. No other mail order source in America carries as wide a range of European and American cured hams, from the peanut-fed Berkshire hams of Sam Edwards to the ultra-smokey cult hams of Allan Benton in Tennesse, to La Quercia's delicate Italian-style wonders cured in Norwalk, Iowa, to the ham world's most prized pork: Spain's acorn-fed bellota hams from Ibérico hogs. Go to zingermans.com, read more, get hungry, get a ham.
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Cheese Passports You pick the country. We’ll head to our cheese cave and take care of the rest. We take deep pride in sourcing and offering a small but excellent collection of cheeses, tending them in our cave, cutting them to order by hand and sending them with careful packaging so they arrive in great condition. We never use cryovac to seal the cheese—it can create off flavors. We wrap them in our amazing French cheese bag that's like a Birkin for cheese. It keeps them looking great, feeling great and tasting great. Makes a great gift for any cheese lover you know, including you.
Enjoy your cheese at room temperature for maximum flavor.
OUR PASSPORTS Matured beyond what you’ll normally find in the USA, these three cheeses, including Antique Gruyère and Parmigiano-Reggiano, are often the cheesemaker’s favorites. And mine. G-CCP with our bread $75 G-N-CCP with crackers $75
With three cheeses including perennial favorites like Farmhouse ParmigianoReggiano and Piave, hand cut from the whole wheel the day they ship. G-ITA with our bread $75 G-N-ITA with crackers $75 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE
The one I enjoy most. My short list of favorites for their long aging and big, bold flavors. We’ll include three samples of mountain cheeses, including Comté and other well-aged wedges. G-MTN with our bread $75 G-N-MTN with crackers $75 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE
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English Farmhouse Cheddar, Raw Milk Stilton and Lancashire, all selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy, the premier source of English cheese. G-BRI with our bread $100 G-N-BRI with crackers $100 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE
Three French cheeses, shipped direct to us from the farm and aging cave. We’ll assemble an homage to affinage with greats like Comté from Fort St. Antoine, Camembert and more. G-FRE with our bread $75 G-N-FRE with crackers $75 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE
We’ll pick three of our best-tasting domestic cheeses, like Pleasant Ridge Reserve from Wisconsin, Landaff from New Hampshire and others that are remaking the image of American cheese. G-AME with our bread $75 G-N-AME with crackers $75 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE
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HALF-POUND CHEESES housed in French cheese bags.
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UniversalLy imitated, never replicated Montgomery’s Farmhouse Cheddar
Like the British Empire, cheddar conquered the world—it’s the planet’s most widely copied cheese. Ironically, with so much emphasis on imitation, the original has become an endangered species. Montgomery’s is one of only three farms in its ancestral homeland making truly traditional farmhouse English cheddar. Big, clothbound drums are made by veteran cheesemaker Steve Bridges every day except Friday. All the milk comes from Jamie Montgomery’s herd of just under 200 Holstein-Fresian cows, which graze on a nearby hill rumored, incidentally, to be the site of Camelot. Each one is spoken for—they’re taking no new customers. Other cheesemakers have started returning to aging cheddar in cloth, not wax—notably Cabot, see next page—but like all old methods, it takes more than copying to master it. No other cheddar comes close to the penetrating, grassy, beefy, brothy flavor of Montgomery’s. C-EFC ½ lb hand cut $22 by the pound $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano Not all the wheels that bear the world famous Parmigiano-Reggiano name are created equal. There are big differences from one to the next. This one is made by a dairy nearly 2,000 feet up in the hills outside of Modena, Italy. The high altitude makes for plenty of diversity in the grasses, herbs and flowers growing in the cows’ pastures. This means that the milk—and therefore your cheese—is full of the pastures' complex flavors. The wheels are aged for a minimum of two years (33% longer than the Consorzio minimum). Most important, the finished cheese has a really rich, wonderfully complex flavor with a lovely, long finish and none of that bitterness or mouthburn that often mars the final flavor of others. Wrapped well, it lasts for weeks. C-PAR 1 lb hand cut for dinner $32 2 lbs hand cut to save $60 4 lbs for an addict $110 8 lbs to share $200 80 lb wheel $1,800 80 lb wheel hand delivered by Mo $2,500
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CHEese candy L'amuse Gouda
While Gouda is made everywhere in Holland, there are major differences between goudas from different regions. These wheels are made in the north from the milk of Holstein cows, two factors that give the cheese a distinctive creaminess speckled with big, crunchy flavor crystals. Selected for us by Betty Koster of L'amuse, Amsterdam's top cheese shop, aged for over two years, the flavor is correspondingly intense. It fills your mouth with butterscotch and caramel, almost like a dessert. In fact, a single nib, taken with espresso after dinner, is a revelation. C-LAM ½ lb, hand cut wedge $22 by the pound $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Essex Manchego One of Spain’s only farmhouse, raw milk, unwaxed Manchegos. Unwaxed Essex Manchego has a lovely, dry crumble and never tastes bitey. It goes down smooth. C-EMA ½ lb, hand cut wedge $22 by the pound $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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cheEsemongEr's CHOice Comté from Fort St. Antoine
France’s most renowned mountain cheese, selected for us by Essex Street Cheese Co. from the caves of legendary Jura affineur Maison Marcel Petite. Fudgy texture, well-balanced, never bitey flavor, with a buttery, hazelnut taste that grows on the tongue and slowly expands to fill your entire mouth. A cheese that makes you want to come back to eat it again and again. C-COM
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Extra aging means mOre intense flavors Antique Gruyère
Aged many months more than the usual half year that most Gruyère gets. Imagine the flavor of the Gruyère you know now but ten times more delicious and infinitely more interesting. Smooth, with the spiciness of a great Rhine wine. C-GRU ½ lb hand cut wedge $15 by the pound $29
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Antique Emmentaler This is the stuff the Swiss eat, cut from 200-pound wheels of cheese. Fantastic for fondue or just for eating as is. Almost a year of extra aging transforms this into an extraordinary example of traditional Emmentaler at its peak of flavor. Due to long aging, it has those flavorful little crunchy crystals you find when you savor a well-aged Parmigiano-Reggiano. Exceptional, and very hard to find in the U.S. C-EMM ½ lb hand cut wedge $13 by the pound $24
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Catch this elusive mountain cheese if you can Piave from Northeast Italy This rarely tasted traditional cheese made high in the mountains of northern Italy has been one of my favorite eating cheeses for years. We buy wheels with a little more age on them than most. Piave has the smoothness of cheddar, the texture of Parmigiano-Reggiano and the mellowness of sweet mountain butter. Flavor wise, think of a good Parmigiano-Reggiano, with a little kick of sweet mountain Gruyère. C-PIA ½ lb hand cut wedge $15 by the pound $28
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england's cLaSsiC bluE CheEse Raw Milk Stilton The only traditional raw milk Stilton in the world. British cheddar may have conquered America and subsequently lost some of its English-ness, but Stilton remains a national treasure. An exquisite, legendary blue with broad, buttery flavors that linger well into the evening. Made by Joe Schneider, selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy just for us. C-TCH ½ lb hand cut wedge $22 by the pound $40
Home Cheesemaking Kit Make mozzarella or ricotta at home. A grand gift to for families to enjoy together. All you need is the milk. P-HCK makes 30 batches $35
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Bayley Hazen Blue
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Bayley's cheesemaker calls this “a cross between butter and chocolate,” and he’s not stretching it. Irresistible to blue cheese lovers. C-BYZ by the pound $39 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
america's stanDard
Pleasant Ridge Reserve
This may be the best American cheese being made today. Like a European mountain cheese, it's fruity in an appley sort of way—rich, deep and sweet. Production is very small—about 6,000 wheels a year. They utilize a seasonal, open grazing system, which means all the milk used to make the Pleasant Ridge Reserve is taken when the cows are happy and content out in the open pasture. Happy cows tend to produce great tasting milk. Since we've been working so closely with the maker we have the opportunity to select specific days of cheese, tasting from a series of different days of production to pick the most flavorful of the bunch. C-PRR ½ lb hand cut wedge $21 by the pound $39 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Cabot Clothbound Cheddar
Marieke Gouda
Great Lakes Cheshire
Beefy cheddar, aged in traditional cloth wrappers in Vermont. Unlike wax, the cloth breathes, resulting in deep flavor. C-CCC by the pound $39
Made in the style of Dutch Gouda. An irresistibly delicious balance of sweet and savory. C-MKE by the pound $30
A tangy, crumbly, citrusy, crowdpleaser of a cheese. Lighter than cheddar. Made by Zingerman’s. C-GLC by the pound $39
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roadhouse bread
The house bread at our restaurant, Zingerman’s Roadhouse and a local favorite. It’s based on an early New England recipe, made by combining rye flour and cornmeal with wheat. Anyone from an 18th century New Englander to Laura Ingalls Wilder would recognize and enjoy it today (it’s referred to in Little House on the Prairie as Rye ‘n’ Injun bread). The same goes for almost anyone I hand a slice to today. It’s got great crust and a soft, chewy center that has a slight sweetness from dark molasses, making it a hit with kids. Excellent with cream cheese and smoked salmon. B-ROA 1½ lb handmade loaf $9 B-2K-ROA 2 kilo round $25 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
farm bread Imagine sitting around a French farmhouse table waiting for dinner. This would be the bread the family would serve. Like French pain au levain, it's a white-wheat mix made with a sour starter. Its crust is crisp, its flavor subtle and never tiring. The one and a half pound loaf is pictured, but the three pound round is my favorite. Cut into quarters and freeze what you don’t eat. B-FRM-RND 3 lb handmade round $15 B-FRM-LOF 1½ lb handmade loaf $9 B-OLV 1½ lb loaf with black olives $14 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
french mouNtain I’d have a tough time picking between this and Farm Bread for top spot on my European-style favorites list. French Mountain Bread has a chestnut colored crust nearly a quarter inch thick, a dense wheaty crumb inside and a toasty, long lasting flavor. It’s totally terrific for toasting. We offer it in two sizes, a ¾ kilo loaf (about 1.65 lbs) that’s good for munching and a 2 kilo (about 4½ lbs, illustrated) work of art. I love the 2K loaf. A good foot and a half across and four or five inches high, it’s decorated with a hand-cut “Z.” The size is significant because bigger loaves almost always taste better. Baked to last, you’ll still be enjoying 2K Mountain Bread ten days after the loaf has left our oven. B-MON-A ¾ kilo handmade loaf $12 B-MON-B 2 kilo handmade “Z” loaf $26 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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paesano
Our most popular bread. Spreading out like the cap of a wild mushroom, its thin, snow white crust surrounds a soft, savory crumb filled with lots of holes (we work hard to put the holes in). This is the traditional bread of Puglia—the heel of Italy’s boot—and the best one to eat alongside a pasta dinner. Recommended for ripping and dipping in olive oil. B-PAE 1½ lb handmade loaf $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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chocOlate cherRy
A chocolate lover's fantasy come true—the best Belgian and French chocolate and dozens of dried Michigan cherries. A few minutes in the oven, the chocolate chunks begin melting, the aroma of cocoa fills the air. Spread it with just a hint of sweet butter or set a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a warm slice. You'll be sitting in front of the most decadent dessert you've had in years. B-CHO 1 ¼ lb handmade loaf $18 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
chocolate sourdough bread
It’s simple: our sourdough bread stuffed with chunks of dark Belgian chocolate. Like most of the school children I know, I like to rip off a hunk and eat it as soon as I open the bag, but it's best when you pop it in the oven for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Your entire kitchen is likely to be filled with sensuous smells—warm chocolate, good bread. This is one loaf that's very hard to keep around the house. B-XSB 1 lb handmade loaf $10 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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cinNamon raisin
A cinnamon raisin bread with substance. A chewy, solid loaf where the flavor of the dough supports the freelancing of the Red Flame raisins and the racy scent of Korintje Indonesian cinnamon. Sweetened and moistened with a hint of clover honey. Makes sensational Sunday morning toast. B-CIN 1½ lb handmade loaf $10 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
pecan raisin
This bread has been like a chain reaction—someone serves it for brunch, and the next week their guests are calling us and buying it for themselves. Calling it dense is an understatement: a half pound of big, juicy Red Flame raisins and toasted pecans are baked into every loaf. The New York Times says our Pecan Raisin Bread "redefines the category." B-PEC 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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pePpered bacon farm Bread
parmesan pepPEr heretic's loaf
We used to bake this on special occasions and we’d get so many orders we'd run out of bacon. It’s Farm Bread dough with Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon and Tellicherry black pepper. Every bite has a bit of sourdough tang and a lot of the sweet, smoky meatiness of bacon, plus a little spice. I’m sure it makes great sandwiches, but I’ve never had a loaf around long enough to try. B-BAC ¾ lb handmade loaf $13 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
My Italian friends would probably think this bread is heresy, but that’s their loss. It’s a natural for me because I love bread, parmesan and good black pepper. There’s a quarter pound of parmesan in every loaf, along with a load of cracked black peppercorns. Leaves your mouth pleasantly aroused from the heat of the pepper and salivating from the savory sweetness of the parmesan. It’s fantastic when toasted. B-PEP 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
new mexico green chile & cheDdar
I love this bread: savory, lusty, delicious and dangerously close to addictive. Softly spicy, fire-roasted New Mexico green chiles and raw milk Nor'easter Cabot cheddar blended into the Bakehouse’s tangy Farm Bread. Great on its own or as an accompaniment to dinner. It’s especially good if you give it about twenty minutes in a 325 degree oven before you break it open so it’s nice and steamy when you crack the crust. B-CHI 1¼ lb handmade loaf $15 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
jewish breadS, RYe & Beyond
Traditional Jewish rye bread is still an endangered American species. Twenty-two years after we started baking them in Ann Arbor you'll still be hard pressed to find a loaf like them anywhere in the country. Believe it or not, most “rye bread” sold in America contains very little rye flour. These are different. These are breads like my grandparents ate in Eastern Europe: plenty of rye flour, a natural sour rye starter (not the usual canned shortcut) and lots of time to let the dough develop. They’re the breads I reach for to make a sandwich or to eat with cool butter and fresh oysters. A perfect pairing with corned beef.
"America's very best rye? No contest... It comes from Zingerman's Bakehouse." Saveur Jewish Rye B-RYE 1½ lb loaf $9 B-2K-RYE 2 kilo round $25 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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Pumpernickel B-PUM 1½ lb loaf $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
Caraway Rye B-CAR 1½ lb loaf $9 B-2K-CAR 2 kilo round $25
Onion Rye B-ONI 1½ lb loaf $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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bREAkfast breads
the bakers' crown
Toast ain’t just toast when it’s made from Zingerman’s Bakehouse bread. To that end, here’s two of our most popular breakfast breads (good any time of day, of course, even if they’re not toasted). This colorful, printed gift box selection includes a loaf each of Cinnamon Raisin and 8-Grain 3-Seed Bread, a couple of Ginger Scones to sweeten the deal and a small jar each of Italian Honey and Preserves. G-FES bread-fest box $50
This box is for all those classic bread lovers out there, the ones who turn up their noses at Cinnamon Raisin and think Chocolate Cherry is for the birds. The ones who fight for crust. For them, we offer three of our most hallowed peasant loaves, the ones our bakers consider their crowning achievements. The gift box includes a loaf each of Paesano, Farm Bread and Sourdough. G-PEA peasant gift box $45
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Deli Deluxe Bread Box
Sweet & Spicy Bread Box
Our classic deli loaves. These are the breads we built our reputation on. Honor a bread fanatic by sending our cartooned gift box of Jewish Rye, Farm Bread, Better Than San Francisco Sourdough and Pecan Raisin. G-SAM-A deli deluxe $50
For a different kind of bread fanatic. A cartooned gift box stuffed to bursting with a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough, Cinnamon Raisin, Chile Cheddar and Peppered Bacon Farm Bread. G-SAM-B sweet & spicy $65 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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Dinkelbrot
One hundred percent spelt grain loaf made with loads of sunflower seeds. Dense, moist, delicious, different from most of the breads we bake whose origins tend to be French and Italian. Excellent for sandwiches. I enjoy devouring loaves armed only with good butter and sometimes a toaster. B-DNK 1½ lb loaf $12 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
8-grain 3 sEed Cracked wheat, cracked rye, cracked barley, corn grits, oats, millet, whole wheat, whole rye, flax seed, poppy seeds, a little honey and a nearly irresistible outer crust of toasted sunflower seeds. More than a mouthful—this ain’t no bird feed. B-8GR 1¼ lb handmade loaf $10 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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Craquelin Bread
The national bread of Belgium. It’s a buttery brioche rolled up with fresh orange zest and sugar cubes soaked in Grand Marnier®. The additions form a sweet swirl inside each slice like a cinnamon roll and their dark orange flavors seep into the surrounding dough. Some of our crew call it “coffeecake bread” which gets to the spirit of the loaf, though its texture is much lighter. B-QUE 1½ lb loaf $22 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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the crown jEwel Ortiz Tunas from Spain
Tuna is one of the most popular foods we sell. It may seem surprising because here in the U.S., tinned tuna is a low-end commodity usually sold in supermarkets. In Spain it’s at the complete opposite of the culinary spectrum. Tuna in tins, especially these from the fourth-generation family firm Ortiz, is one of the jewels in Spain's culinary crown. Ortiz's fish are all line caught—not netted—hand filleted at sea and quickly tinned in good olive oil. The olive oil is key. It adds flavor and makes the texture silky over time, unlike water, which tends to leach flavors from the fish. We went to Spain and selected a single great batch of Bonito loin, our best seller, for fullness of flavor, siky texutre, and lingering sweetness. A Zingerman's exclusive. Kosher.
Bonito Loin Zing Select
P-ORT 112 g $8 4 or more $6.50 each P-ORT-12 12 tin case $65
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Decades ago chefs used to select their preferred tuna batches from the factory at Ortiz, Spain’s highly esteemed fifth generation tinned fish titan. Cheesemongers still do this with cheese, in fact it’s a specialty of some exporters like Neal’s Yard Dairy and Essex Street Cheese. But it’s something that hasn’t been done for decades with tinned fish. Last fall I went to Getaria, a fishing village in Northern Spain off the Bay of Biscay, to taste all the batches of tuna Ortiz had tinned that summer for America to select the most promising. We bought all of it, a single shoal of amazing fish that resulted in some 40,000+ tins. We’re going to age some of it and sell the rest for as long as we have it. It was the first time in a generation this has been done and I think it’s resulted in a great tinned tuna. Enjoy.
Spanish Surf & Turf Tuna Stuffed Piquillo Peppers
Tuna and smoked piquillo peppers in one snack? For me this beats putting your chocolate in my peanut butter any day. The Ortiz family's great bonito tuna, stuffed in smoked piquillo peppers, doused in a bit of tomato sauce. A classic Catalan tapa, as delicious as you’re imagining right now, ready to eat right out of the tin. Four stuffed peppers per tin. P-TOP 4 pepper tin $15 2 or more $13 each
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sargASso’s Surprise Smoked Eel
I understand that the name may put you off. Eels just don’t sound appetizing. I assure you they are—more luxurious than you can imagine. This tin has four flakingly tender eel fillets, lightly smoked. Milder than mackerel or sardines, they have a texture that reminds me of salmon crossed with sea bass. Amazing stuff, with the kind of out-of-fashion packaging that belies the high quality of fish within. Eat them on their own, forked out of the tin. Or top a green salad with a couple fillets, capers, Marash red pepper and lemon zest. An unparalleled late night snack. P-EEL 105 g tin $17 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Tinned Atlantic Mackerel Firm, perfect fillets of mackerel whose flavor is located somewhere between the sweetness of tuna and the richness of sardines. It’s rare to find tinned mackerel of this quality. P-MAC 125 g tin in olive oil $8 P-MPI 90 g tin with piri piri red pepper spice $8
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you'd be suRprisEd Portuguese Sardines
Tuna is our best-selling seafood, but sardines are no slouch. We sell loads of tins and I’m beginning to think it’s not a fluke because the numbers keep going up every year in a way that would make the Chinese economy jealous. There are real sardine lovers out there, and there are lots of you. Stand up, don’t be shy. With these sardines this good you don’t have to be. There are actually dozens of different fish sold as sardines in the U.S. Most are either brislings from Norway or herring from the North Atlantic. While they aren’t bad, they don’t come close to the flavor of true pilchards like these. And unlike Norwegian sardines, these are never smoked, so the full flavor of the fish comes through. Open a tin, and you’ll find four or five fine silver sardines nestled inside. I like to serve them simply, laid on a slice of toasted farm bread and dressed with great olive oil. Add a pinch of salt, a twist of black pepper, a squeeze of lemon and eat ‘em up. P-SAR 125 g tin (illustrated) $7 4 or more $5.50 each P-SEV 110 g tin in extra virgin olive oil $8 “The taste 4 or more $6.50 each
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bachelor's BAit Ortiz Duo Pack Anchovy
All the great flavor without the commitment, a bachelor's anchovy dream. Two boxes of five anchovies each, fished from the Galician Sea. Perfect on top of a midnight egg-salad sandwich. P-ACH 50 g $13
is not fishy or salty but soft and delicate and dark.” Kevin, Plymouth, Michigan
fish truffles Anchovy Stuffed Peppers
Capers and anchovies stuffed into exquisite cherry peppers, packed in good extra virgin olive oil. The layers of flavors unfold on your tongue. Sweetness at first, then mild heat, all enhanced by the suave saltiness of anchovies. P-AUP 180 g $32 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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cult-like, In a goOd way Maussane Olive Oil This is a unique oil that’s got one of the most dedicated followings I’ve ever witnessed. We tracked it down years ago at the adamant insistence of Nancy Harmon Jenkins, one of the world’s most knowledgeable food folks, and it’s had a growing cadre of fans ever since. A rich, golden nectar with a distinctive herbal character no other oil can match, it sings with an unequaled pitch in its range of high and low flavor notes. One of its fans told me, “If you love olives, you’ll want to marry this oil.” O-MAU 500 ml $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
a love aFfair Alziari from Nice
It's now been over two decades since I first fell in love with Alziari, the old shop in the historic center of Nice, on France’s Côte d’Azur. Their extra virgin olive oil is exceptional and typically Niçoise—light, flowery and elegant but still full of character and charisma. I could use the same phrase to describe the tin it comes in. It's such a beautiful package that it makes one of the best gifts from our catalog; it needs no wrapping. O-ALZ 1 liter tin $55 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
HOUSE OIL NO. 2 Frantoio from Chile
house oil no. 1
A big, bold extra virgin olive oil. It has a wonderful aroma that reminds me of almonds and has a really beautiful bitterness in the finish that may catch you with a punch of late breaking pepperiness. O-OZB 500 ml $29 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Zingerman’s Peranzana
Zingerman’s Olive Oil is made by Marina Colonna on her ancient estate in the Molise, a little over 100 miles due east of Rome. Made from hand picked Peranzana olives pressed the same day they’re taken from the tree, this oil is hugely flavorful. The latest vintage has pleasing aromas of green apple, freshly cut grass and leaf and a whisper of almond. It finishes with that great green olive bitterness and a bit of a peppery kick. O-ZIN 500 ml $29 SHIPS FLAT RATE
La Spineta from Puglia Pugliese oils get little credit on the international oil scene. But hidden in the shadows of the huge industrial producers are artisans like the Pellegrino family. I visited their farm a couple of years ago, and I keep coming back to their full-flavored extra virgin olive oil again and again. It’s especially good in spicy pasta dishes or any place you want a really robust olive flavor. The more I use this oil, the more I like it. O-SPI 500 ml bottle $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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the lemon Oil of angels
Agrumato Lemon Oil
I keep imagining that if I went to heaven, I’d discover this to be the oil the angels put on their salads. Smooth and olive-y with a lemoniness that tickles your nose like the bubbles of a fine champagne. This is not lemon flavored oil but the traditional pressing of olives and lemons together—oil of the fruit married to oil of the olive in an ethereal combination. You can do most anything with Agrumato lemon you’d do with other oils and then some. It’s fantastic brushed on top of almost any just-broiled fish. O-AGR 200 ml bottle $36 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Citrus Olive Oil Sampler Orange, lemon, bergamot and plain extra virgin olive oil in a little sampler from Marina Colonna. Whole olives are pressed with citrus rinds, not infused with essences like most citrus oils. O-CIT 4 oil sampler, 1 oz total $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
coastal tuscan masterpiece
Poggio Lamentano
Michael Zyw is a farmer and an artist and, appropriate to both, he crafted this oil and its label. The label is a pencil sketch, a complex study in grays and whites. The oil is also complex, but, by contrast, much more colorful. It has the bold pepperiness and green flavor of fresh cut grass and artichoke that are hallmarks of Tuscan oil, but the grove's location near the sea brings a softness. Where the oils from the Tuscan center are far more aggressive, the oils from the coast are relatively (for Tuscany) mellow. Lamentano starts big, softens a bit midway through and finishes with a meaningful but moderate amount of pepper. O-POG 500 ml bottle $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
true Tuscan
Tenuta di Valgiano Savignola Paolina Unfiltered, giving it a thick, creamy, buttery texture. It has a luscious, mouth-filling flavor that’s very grassy in this year’s harvest, hinting of artichokes with a soft touch of pepper at the finish. Carlo Fabri makes only 500 bottles a year, and all his olives are picked and pressed in a three day family affair in early November. He sends almost his entire production to us. The tall, elegant, black bottle is as sexy as the extra virgin olive oil within. Outstanding. O-SAV 500 ml $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
This is consistently one of our most popular oils, and a stand-out in Tuscany for its soft-edged intensity. Valgiano is a touch gentler than other more audacious oils from the center of Tuscany, but it’s still got plenty of pungent, peppery, olive-y goodness. O-VAL 500 ml bottle $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Roi from Liguria Mellow yet rich in its unfiltered state, it’s delicately delicious, feathery light and perfect for pesto making. Its subtle, lingering flavors leave you smiling long after you’ve tasted it. I use it for dressing fresh fish or a delicate salad. O-ROI-500 500 ml $25 O-ROI 1 liter $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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nOw introducINg chOColate Zingerman's Peanut Brittle
Candyman Charlie Frank isn't reinventing the wheel, just making it more delicious. In his classic brittle, Jumbo Runner peanuts jut like boulders from a shiny, golden candy sea. The texture looks silky but shatters in crisp shards with each bite. In his new chocolate version the crispiness is balanced by a silky cloak of chocolate. To achieve all this magic, Charlie makes small batches by hand with a watchful eye. This is stovetop brittle, not factory gristle, with butterscotch-brown flavor, sharp, crackly texture and a finishing savor of roasted peanuts.
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caramel knowledge Béquet Caramels from Montana
Robin Béquet says, "There are a great many products easier to make than caramel. In the blink of an eye you can go from potential greatness to complete disaster.” That's the voice of experience talking. In the last decade, in going from a home kitchen operation to an award-winning caramel maker, Robin has had a lot of experimental disasters. But we get to taste the benefits of her hard lessons. Her caramels are widely recognized as some of the best in the country. This silver, ribboned gift box is filled with two of our favorite types: sea salt and chipotle pepper. Caramel fans, don’t miss out. P-PEQ 11 oz ribboned box $36 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
seriously SensuaL Blanxart Cocoa from Spain
This stuff gives new and very seriously sensual meaning to the words “hot chocolate.” When you read about chocolate being the morning beverage of Renaissance royalty in Europe, this is what they were drinking. I know it’s hard to believe anything this good could come from a prepacked mix, but it does. So thick, so chocolatey, so intensely rich, it’s almost impossible to describe. If any beverage is better than sex, this is it. A huge hit, we always sell every bag we can import. Buy yours quick. One bag makes six servings. P-CDC 200 g drinking chocolate $9 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Our search is over Coop's Hot Fudge
I’ve been patiently searching for a great hot fudge ever since Zingerman’s Creamery started making gelato a few years ago. Till now it’d been a sickly sweet, unlucky quest. Most have too much sugar. Many have a laundry list of unpronounceable ingredients. Then along came Coop’s. To be honest, the jar caught my eye first. A waxed seal drips from the top looking like chocolate that leaked out of the vat. Usually when I see clever packaging like this I’m suspect. It often overshadows the food. To my surprise the hot fudge inside was good. Not just good, pretty great. Sporting just six ingredients, all of which I promise you’ll recognize, Marc Cooper’s hot fudge is milky and chocolaty without being overly sweet. Microwave for less than a minute and you’re in business. P-HHF 10.6 oz jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
right under our nOses Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter
The peanut butter that's become a legend. We found this one nearly next door, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jeff Koeze sources incredible Virginia peanuts, brings them up north in one ton sacks, then blanches them to remove the skins and keep them from going rancid (a common flaw in a lot of natural peanut butters). He roasts them in vintage coffee roasters, grinds them smooth, then adds a bit of salt. The result is not an air whipped, sugar filled concoction but a natural, intense, velvety, mouthwatering sensation. Get a couple jars, quick. P-BUT 17 oz jar smooth $9.50 2 or more $8 each SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE P-CRU 16½ oz jar crunchy $9.50 2 or more $8 each
“Totally irresistable.” - New York Times
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cOConut's New jam
Baobab Jelly from Africa There's no tree more iconic to Africa than the Baobab. They call it the "upside down tree" because it's leafless for much of the year and looks like its roots are stretching into the air. It might be more apropros to call it the giving tree since it provides food, clothing, medicine, shelter and water to animals and humans across the African savannah. Its fruit is reminiscent of coconut. They're big—a few pounds each—and have a hard, smooth shell protecting white flesh inside that tastes bright with hints of vanilla. To make jam from them the fruit is sun dried to concentrate its sweetness, then macerated and mixed with a bit of water, sugar and just a touch of pectin to hold it all together. The result is a novel, delicious jam with a custardy texture. It's tart, with vanilla undertones and tastes like no other preserve I've tried in nearly twenty years of food finding. P-BAO 15.87 oz jar $12
Coconut Jam Across Southeast Asia they make Srikaya or simply Kaya. In Malaysia, the name means “rich” but a more detailed translation might also include "smooth," "creamy" and "more please." This version is made closer to home, in San Francisco, by slow cooking coconut milk, egg yolks and sugar. Its flavor is surprisingly complex for something with so few ingredients. It is deep and sweet like coconut custard, with a texture like lemon curd. Traditionally it’s spread on toast for a morning treat, but don’t stop there. Set it out with pretzels or apple slices for dipping, pair with fresh goat cheese, whirl into yogurt, put a dollop over ice cream or spoon it up right out of the jar in a dark closet. P-CJM 8 oz jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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beautiful BalAnce
Why we carry only one brand of balsamic The Balsamic Vinegars of La Vecchia Dispensa
While we carry different vinegars and olive oils from different farms and acetaias we only carry one family's everyday balsamic: La Vecchia Dispensa. Working just off the historic square in the center of the old town of Castelvetro, southwest of Modena, Italy, Roberta Pelloni and her husband Marino Tintori make a range of outstanding balsamics. And while I've probably tasted another fifty balsamics since we started carrying theirs a decade and a half ago none have come close in terms of balance and flavor. Although Americans tend to gravitate toward sweet caramel-flavored balsamics, Marino is quick to emphasize “the key to great Balsamico is balance.” Exaggerating sweetness is an easy way to enhance appeal and reduce the need for proper blending and aging. You might not notice it at first, but after many uses overly sweet balsamics get kind of dull. Not so with Vecchia Dispensa. They have a legion of followers who return to them again and again. A staff and customer favorite, their 10 year aged balsamic is the most intensely flavored balsamic of its age I’ve ever tried. Its complexity, with rich flavors of oak, blackberry and dark fruit, is partly due to aging in very small batches. That allows more evaporation and contact with the barrel— both of which contribute to more intense flavors. Although aged for only 25 percent longer than the 8 year balsamic, the intensity of flavor is almost double. As you move up the age range—to 16 year and 30 year—the liquor thickens, the sweetness enhances, the carmelization takes you on a wild ride of flavor. EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
8 Year Aged
16 Year Aged
V-8YR 250 ml bottle $25
V-16Y 250 ml bottle $45
10 Year Aged
30 Year Aged
V-10Y 250 ml bottle $35
V-30Y 100 ml bottle $50
4 bottle sampler V-VBT 4 x ¼ oz each $30
Oak Barrel of 16 Year Aged V-BAR-16 1 liter $400
a kind of white balsamic
Agrodolce White Balsamic Vinegar
Sometimes I can predict foods that are going to be a hit. Chocolate Sourdough Bread was a nobrainer. Chocolate Banana Bread, natch. And sometimes they catch us by surprise, like this. Agrodolce vinegar has been selling at incredible rates despite the obvious fact that it’s not exactly inexpensive. Why? Maybe it's because we've been noting how it tastes like balsamic but it's a white wine vinegar. More than anything else, I want to chalk up its success to its flavor. It’s exceptionally delicate, subtly sweet and really delicious. Agrodolce is super smooth, light on the tongue, subtle and very, very long in the finish. You can use it in place of balsamic since it’s similarly soft and sweet. Wherever it’s employed, your cooking will be enhanced by one of the most elegant vinegars I’ve tried in a really long time. It’s crafted by Sante Bertoni on his family estate outside of Modena, Italy. Described as a bit of a mad scientist, Sr. Bertoni is giving the vinegar extra maturing just for us, making its flavor more complex before it hits your kitchen. V-AGV 500 ml bottle $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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stones, NOt STEel Macroom Irish Oatmeal
Eating this for the first time is like taking your first promenade in Paris, France, when all you’ve known is Paris, Texas: you realize just how good oatmeal can be. The Walton family has been milling oats in Ireland since the 1700s, and they still use old stone wheels, which I think leave the oats better tasting than steel-cut. The result is a coarse meal that has its natural oils still intact, making the meal darker than other oatmeal. Facts aside, the most important thing is the way it tastes, extremely good. P-OAT 2 lb $14 2 or more $10 each
the new staple
Tinawon White Rice from the Philippnes You might seriously consider kicking all your white rice to the curb to make room for this. It's white rice, but it's not polished so most of its bran (and nutritional goodness) is intact. It's harvested by hand on two-thousand year old Banaue rice terraces in the Philippines and dried in the sun so it's got a lot of positives, environmentally speaking. Most importantly, it tastes really, really good. It's become my staple white rice. P-TWR 1 lb bag $10 2 or more $8 each
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southern spread Pimento Cheese Spread
Pimento cheese is a salty, tangy spread of Cabot Vermont cheddar, Hellmann’s mayo, pimento peppers and spices. One of our best selling foods. C-PMC 8 oz tub $8.50 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
tiny wild artichokes
Wild Artichokes in Olive Oil
In Italy, they're called carciofini selvatici, which is the name you'll see on the label. They're a variety of artichoke that grows wild in Calabria during April and May. Picked by hand, they’re dethorned and cleaned, then blanched for just a few minutes so their texture remains firm. About the size of an acorn, they’re bottled with olive oil, wine vinegar, salt, black pepper and a little bit of red chili pepper—a spice you find in many Calabrian foods. The red pepper is so subtle you won’t notice its faint spice until you’ve had two or three, a feat that’s way too easy to accomplish with artichokes this good. Throw a couple in a pasta dish. Add them to salads. Serve alongside some sheep’s milk cheese. Or follow your heart, open the jar and just eat 'em straight up. P-ART 175 g jar, about 30 artichokes $25
Artichoke Cream A sun-bright spread of artichokes, whipped with extra virgin olive oil till pudding light, tarted up with a dash of vinegar and herbs. On grilled Farm Bread, as a vegetable dip, in a sauce, it'll seduce its way into many meals. P-ARC 185 g jar $17 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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"Now that's a sandwich!" Michael Ivins, The Flaming Lips
legendary Reuben Sandwich Kits The perfect sandwich by mail. If you know someone who loves real deli fare, sending this gift will cement your status as the most clever, generous friend they have. Some assembly is required, but considering it has been known to make grown men weep in appreciation, we think it’s worth it.
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Corned Beef Reuben G-SHE serves 8 $200 G-SHE-2 serves 3-4 $135 Pastrami Brooklyn Reuben G-BIN serves 8 $200 G-BIN-2 serves 3-4 $135 Turkey Georgia Reuben* G-GEO serves 8 $200 G-GEO-2 serves 3-4 $135 * Cooked in peanut oil
Jon & Amy's Corned Beef & Pastrami Double Dip G-JJA serves 8 $200
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Our award-winning corned beef, by the pound. M-LCB 1 lb, sliced $25 M-LCB-W whole raw, 6-8 lbs serves 10 $80 SHIPS ONE BUSINESS DAY OVERNIGHT
Praise The Lard Gift Box
As if it was possible to love pork any more than you do. It’ll take a special kind of faith for the recipient to make it through this gift box, tallying up at over two and a half pounds of pork, plus bread and chocolate. When done, they will surely testify. Broadbent’s Kentucky Smoked Sausage, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, La Quercia's Prosciutto, Borsellino Salami and Zingerman’s Peppered Bacon Farm Bread. To round things out, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate Bar. All in a Zingerman’s bag. G-PTL praise the lard gift box $90
spain's NationAl nut Marcona Almonds About ten times more flavorful than the California almonds we’re used to. These are the nuts you'll find in tapas bars across Spain, served at the start of meals, the end of meals or during a bout of afternoon sherry sipping. P-MLM 4 oz bag $9 2 or more $8 each P-MLM-8 case of 8 $50
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"Every time I’m eating bacon I think I could die right now and I mean it, that’s how good life is." Louis CK
Camp never tasted so gOod Camp Bacon Gift Box Camp Bacon is an annual festival of your favorite meat held right here in Ann Arbor, Michigan the first weekend in June. In honor of the celebration of our Princes of Pork we pack our cartoon printed gift box with three of our most popular bacons: Nueske’s Applewood Smoked from Wisconsin, Peppered Bacon from Arkansas and Broadbent’s Hickory Smoked Bacon from Kentucky; plus an Apple & Bacon Coffeecake from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, Chocolate Bacon Pig from Vosges in Chicago and our Bacon Pig Magnet. G-CAMP-1 gift box $100 G-CAMP-2 gift box and two camp tickets $400 P-CBT camp bacon ticket $150 each SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
instant hors d’oeuvres
loads of luscious bacon p. 18
Charcuterie and Cheese Gift Box
With a larder like this, the recipient can lay out a devastatingly handsome spread of food so quickly it’ll seem like Harry Potter cast a spell. We pack a culinary collection in its own wooden “cupboard” that a lazy gourmand can stash until hunger—or desirable company—strikes. Includes Borsellino Salami, French Cornichon Pickles, Dutch Gouda and Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, Mediterranean Olives, a loaf of Zingerman’s Artisan Bread, Sam Edwards Smoked Berkshire Ham, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts and Rustic Bakery Olive Oil and Sea Salt Flatbreads. Serves ten for snacks, lasts for weeks when refrigerated. G-CAC charcuterie & cheese gift box $150 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
senD them THEir own deLI counter Zingerman’s Big Box of Deli Meat When I’m away from Ann Arbor for more than a few days I start to miss Zingerman’s food. Coffee and bread first, then more subtle longings surface. Like cured and cooked meats. This is a collection of my favorites from our deli case. Just set out some cheese, vegetables, bread and some sliced meats for a satisfying feast. Our Zingerman's shopping bag includes a pound each of Pastrami, our Classic Black Angus Lean Corned Beef, Broadbent Breakfast Sausage, Usinger’s Smoked Liverwurst, Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon, plus La Quercia's Prosciutto Americano and Borsellino Salami. Over six pounds of cured cow and hog, rounded out with a loaf of Bacon Peppered Farm Bread. Requires a strong will not to overdo it. In case of excess, we’ll throw in some Alka Seltzer®. Everything freezes splendidly. G-BBM big box of meat $200 FREE SHIPPING
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our greatest hits Zingerman's Artisan Gift Box
A mini Sourcream Coffeecake and hearth baked bread from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, a bag of whole bean coffee from Zingerman’s Coffee Company, a hand cut wedge of Great Lakes Cheshire Cheese, a box of Peanut Brittle, Spiced Pecans, a Walnut-studded Magic Brownie, a Vanilla Cosmic Cake and a Sky’s the Lemon Cookie. G-ART artisan market gift box $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
American Artisan Gift Box Robert Lambert’s Rangpur Lime Syrup from California, Broadbent Sausage from Kentucky, Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese from Wisconsin, Virginia Diner Peanuts, La Quercia’s Organic Cured Ham from Iowa, Raye’s Mustard from Maine, Vosges Black Sea Salt Caramel Bar from Chicago. G-AMT gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Foods from around the five Great Lakes
we've got the food, you adD the wine
Twenty years ago it was a tough task to build a collection of great American artisan foods, let alone one strictly from the Great Lakes. My, how times have changed. Today the difficult job is not finding enough foods, it's editing the selection. Here are seven delectables that I think represent some of the ingenuity and resources of artisan food makers from our region. We stuff our cartooned gift box with Peanut Butter from Koeze in Grand Rapids, Jam from Farrell Fruit in Ann Arbor, Freshly Roasted Zingerman's Coffee, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate bar from Vosges in Chicago, Marieke Gouda from Thorp, Wisconsin, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon from Wisconsin and our Pecan Raisin Bread. G-GLA gift box $100
in Spanish, tapas sort of means snacks, but that's an inexact translation. In English you wouldn't eat a meal of snacks. In Spain there's no problem doing just that. There, tapas can start a meal or substitute for it entirely. The ingredients in this collection of open-and-serve delectables here are not all Spanish but the idea is. Eat them as the Spanish do, as evening makes its way indoors, with a glass of crisp wine. The gift box includes Zingerman's Farm Bread, La Quercia’s Cured Ham, Mediterranean Olives, Spanish Olive Oil and Anise Tortas, Spanish Marcona Almonds, Portuguese Sardines and Italian Taralli crackers. Serves 6-8 quite handily. G-TAP tapas gift box $75
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dID sOmeone say thEre’s ice cream in the break rOom?
Office Ice Cream Social
Italian style ice cream, built to feed any office in America. Gelato alone or with all the trimmings. Learn more and order online or just give us a call. From $150 FREE SHIPPING
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cOrporate giftage Awesome Office Supply
Feeds fifteen or more in a way they will not forget soon. With this you can remotely host the best office party since that time someone snuck a magnum of Veuve Cliquot in the break room. Nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Macy's Cheesesticks, Olive Oil Tortas, six all-butter crispy Palmiers, Italian Biscotti, all natural Smooch Lion Gummis, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts, Freshly Roasted Zingerman’s Coffee ground for drip, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Homemade Spiced Pecans, two Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, a Ginger Jump-Up Cookie and ten Brownie Bites. G-OFF office supply gift box $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Bite Size big box Magic Brownie Bites
Zingerman’s legendary Magic Brownies—with and without toasted walnuts—carved down to a quarter of their original size. Each is baked with real butter, cane sugar and dark Belgian chocolate. Perfect for desk hoarders. G-MBB 20 assorted brownie bites $36 G-M50 50 bites in wooden crate $100 G-M100 100 bites in wooden crate $175 G-M200 200 bites in wooden crate $325 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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welcome to your latest addiction Chocolate Covered Grissini Grissini are the thin bread sticks you see on every North Italian table before dinner. These, made by a bakery in the town of Asti, are crisp and crumbly and absolutely grand when served plain. But that's not what we're doing here. These are covered in semi-sweet chocolate. Each bread stick is more than eight inches long and, thanks to the sweet jacket, built for coveting. Imagine a really substantial, supremely delicious version of Japanese poki. I found myself nibbling away like a chipmunk who’d hit the jackpot. P-GRS 200 g box $18 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
extra french
Banyuls Grand Reserve Vinegar Banyuls is a little-known dessert wine made in Southern France. A tiny amount is made into an even lesser-known vinegar—an extremely delicious one that we’ve carried for almost two decades. It’s usually aged about six years in oak. This year about five hundred bottles came on the market that were aged over eight years, a 33% increase. The extra aging has taken Banyuls’s sherry tang and subtle sweetness to a much more pronounced, much more exciting level. After tasting it we bought all we could, which turned into about 300. Most of them have gone to our Food Explorers Club members (p. 49) but we have a small allotment left. It’s first come first served, so come quickly. V-GRB 250 ml bottle $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
the ferRari of Olive oil Muraglia Olive Oil
From Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, comes this spicy, racy extra virgin olive oil. Made from 100% Coratina olives, this one ain’t for everybody. But the oil aficionados who crave intensity will be blown away by its big, bold body and grassy, peppery finish. Fittingly, the bottle is just as intense as the oil within. I rarely sell things based on packaging but for this I’ve made an exception. It’s stunning. Ceramic artists create each bottle by hand, about three per hour, which makes up quite a bit of the cost. The glaze is a vibrant, seasonally appropriate red. Not only is it beautiful to look at, it’s good for the oil, protecting it from light which causes olive oil to lose its flavor. Keep it around and you can fill it with new oil when you run out. Very limited supply, holiday only. O-MUR 500 ml red ceramic bottle $60 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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sublime pork
Red Wattle Porterhouse Pork Chop
Red Wattle is an old breed of pig that was raised for flavor, not fashion. There's been almost no supply for us home cooks. Until now. Each bone-in porterhouse cut chop measures an inch and a quarter thick and tips the scales at fourteen ounces. The flavor is rich, herbaceous, even a little sweet. It packs more flavor than I’ve ever had in a pork chop. The crowning glory of Red Wattle pork, however, is its fat. When cooked it melts within the meat and softens its edge to a luscious, lip-smacking bite. This is melt-in-your mouth fat, the kind of succulent experience you expect in a great steaks. Chops ship frozen, though they may thaw and be cold, not hard, when they arrive. They come two to a pack. M-WAT-4 four 14 oz red wattle pork chops $80 M-WAT-8 eight 14 oz red wattle pork chops $140 FREE SHIPPING
Red Wattle Rib Rack Big, fat, five-rib racks that are Frenched so the bones show. The whole rack is swaddled in the famous, luscious Red Wattle fat. Cook the whole rack or separate and grill each piece. Either way the result is astounding. M-HFR five rib rack, about 3½ lbs $80
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"Most definitely not the other white meat." Ed Levine, Serious Eats
pig in the city City Hams
This fall, for the first time, we’re offering a small range of excellent cured and smoked hams. Unlike country hams (p. 21) that you can eat without cooking, these "city hams" are the kind that most of us (at least those from the North) are used to eating. The ones you put in the oven for a few hours, sometimes pinned with pineapple slices. Skip the pineapple here, these hams don’t need it. They are full of flavor and easy to enjoy. Just heat, slice and eat. Select which ham you’d like based on its flavor profile. Each is raised in the Midwest by farmers under the direction of Heritage Foods, the folks who bring us our amazing porterhouse pork chops, above. The pigs are not confined, have access to the outdoors to root and roam, and never receive antibiotics or hormones. Maple sugar cured for two weeks, smoked over hickory. Shipped frozen, may arrive frozen and need a day to defrost.
Red Wattle
Berkshire
Red Wattle hams are the sweetest variety. With a thin ring of fat that melts in your mouth. M-RWH 4-5 lbs, boneless, serves 10 $75
Berkshire hams have a classic porky flavor that everyone loves, turned up about six notches. M-BHC 4-5 lbs, boneless, serves 10 $75
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soft and sweet
Giorgio Cravero Parmigiano-Reggiano Gift Set Giorgio Cravero’s family has been aging Parmigiano-Reggiano in Bra, Italy since 1852. He focuses on soft, sweet flavors, the kind of Parmesan you want to eat, not grate. For the cheese lover on your gift list, we’ve hand cut a pound-anda-half wedge from of one of Giorgio’s exquisite eighty pound wheels and put it in a muslin bag along with one of his company’s seals and a classic Parmigiano knife— the kind Italians use to whittle and wedge off irregular chips of parmesan. They nibble after dinner, they nibble as a snack, they nibble whenever they’d like. The cheese lover you choose will do the same. Very limited quantities. G-GIO cravero cheese gift $75 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate chocolate and coconut. Classics and innovations to keep the sweet tooth sated.
Chocolate Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter Chocolate Clusters
Christmas Chocolates
Candyman Charlie Frank isn't reinventing the wheel, just making it more delicious. Crispy, crackly peanut brittle, hand made from Jumbo Runner peanuts and Muscavado brown sugar, enrobed in semi-dark chocolate. Monumentally addictive.This is stovetop brittle, not factory gristle, with butterscotch-brown flavor, sharp, crackly texture and a finishing savor of roasted peanuts. P-CBR-S 4 oz box $12
Whatever our friends at Koeze wanna do with their peanut butter is fine with us. Clusters have a peanut butter core blended with white chocolate, rolled in chopped pecans, covered in dark chocolate. P-KPP 4 cluster box $14 2 or more $12 each
Slim squares of exquisite milk chocolate, individually wrapped. From Venchi in Northern Italy, where they excel at lovely, gift-worthy packaging (and eye-rollingly good flavor). P-ITC 18 piece box $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Caramel Marshmallows
Chocolate Dipped Figs
Soft caramel mixed with pecan toffee decorating a handmade marshmallow—all covered in chocolate. An invention that should be patented and a real show-stopper in the stocking. P-VCB-4 4 piece box $20 P-VCB 9 piece box $39
Tender, sweeter than usual, parito figs are dried, filled with soft chocolate truffle cream and a hint of liqueur, then dipped in dark chocolate. From the hot heart of Spain. P-RAB-3 3 figs $7
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Coconut Jam You can pretty much find anything made with coconuts these days, since it's become the hippest ingredient in the land, but this traditional Indonesian coconut jam is my old-fashioned favorite food find of the year. P-CJM 8 oz jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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The foods aren't weird. Finding them in a stocking may be—unless the stocking is owned by a food fanatic. In which case they'll think Santa = Genius.
Portuguese Tinned Squid
Bacon Chocolate Pig
Portuguese Sardines
A hilarious joke or, for some folks on your gift list, the best stocking stuffer they've ever received. Smoky and sweet with a hint of paprika. P-SCA 110 g tin $12
Milk chocolate is studded with pieces of hickory smoked bacon from Wisconsin. Start at the rump and work your way up. P-PIG 1.2 oz pig $12
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Ryan Stiner designed a stunning new package for our classic sardines a little over a year ago. Now, not only are they the best tasting sardines anywhere, they’re also the best looking, which makes them a superior weird stocking stuffer. P-SAR 125 g tin $7 2 or more $5.50 each SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Balsamic Vinegar Sampler Vinegar is a weird stocking stuffer, but 4 different ages of great balsamic is a fabulously delicious weird stocking stuffer. V-VBT 4 bottles, ¼ oz each $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Dynamite Sauce
Spicy Cashews & Lime Leaves
A classic Calabrian combination of tomatoes, mushrooms and eggplant, blended with extra-hot chiles. The label reads "Calabrian Viagru." Just sayin'. Spoon, spread, stand back. P-MDM 190 g $16
Another Indonesian candidate for stocking stuffer, who knew? This time an amazingly flavorful set of cashews that’ll knock a nut lovers socks off. P-CHL 2.1 oz bag $7 2 or more $5 each
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it's betTer with bacon
When Pigs Fly: American Bacon Club Six to date. That’s how many vegetarians I know who’ve fallen off the bandwagon thanks to bacon. I’m not using that as a proposal for torturing anyone. I’m just saying any food that’s so good it can break a strong will has to be worth trying. Our bacon club has been lauded by chefs, sous chefs, home chefs, pork-o-philes and bacon freaks all over America. It’s our most popular food club by far and it’s not just the novelty of bacon-by-mail that makes it so loved. The bacons are downright amazing. It’s hard to find any of these bacons in most shops, let alone all of them. They represent the pinnacle of American bacon making and, let’s be honest, this is one food that no one in the world does better than us. Sorry Europe, it’s true. Your ParmigianoReggiano and your Champagnes are great, but you can’t touch our bacon. Also, we don’t ship to Europe, so we get this one all to ourselves.
Each shipment contains bacon stories, histories, recipes and great bacon. “Amazing artisan bacon” Mario Batali
BONUS!
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Bacon refrigerator magnet
Guide to Good Bacon Booklet
“The best thing I ever ate.” Michael Symon
“Fantastic gift!” Bobby Flay
FOUR BACON CLUBS
1 THREE MONTHS 3 QUARTERLY G-BAC-3 $99
Applewood Smoked Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered
2 SIX MONTHS G-BAC-6 $189
Previous Bacons plus Virginia Dry Cured Tennessee Dry Cured Balinese Long Pepper
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G-BHF-4 $199
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G-BAC-12 $400
Quarter 1 Applewood Smoked Irish Style Back Bacon
Month 1 Nueske’s Applewood Smoked
Month 5 Broadbent Kentucky Bacon
Month 9 Hungarian Double Smoked
Quarter 2 Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered
Month 2 Arkansas Peppered
Month 6 Cherrywood Smoked
Month 10 Newsom’s Dry Cured
Quarter 3 Tennessee Dry Cured Missouri Jowl Bacon
Month 3 Hickory Duroc
Month 7 Spencer’s Irish Style
Month 11 Benton’s Dry Cured
Quarter 4 Balinese Long Pepper Cherrywood Smoked
Month 4 Jowl and Steak
Month 8 Long Pepper
Month 12 Nodine’s Juniper
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Zingerman's premier Club Culinary Adventure Society
The right gift for that friend or client who thinks they're the Indiana Jones of the culinary world. No rolling boulders here, but four times a year we’ll send a big box of eight to ten food surprises. Based on our most up to date food research and travel, perhaps they’ll taste olio nuovo, a coveted bottle of great olive oil, just pressed. Maybe a cheese from one of America’s small dairies so regional it rarely leaves its neighborhood. Or maybe the latest invention from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, only available in Ann Arbor. All foods in the Culinary Adventure Society will be exclusively selected for its members. We’ll include a collection of writing on each food's history and culture plus recipes for their use. It’s guaranteed to impress and put its recipient on the cutting edge of taste-bud territory.
– CULINARY ADVENTURE SOCIETY– 1 Time G-1-Z $175
2 Times G-2-Z $325
Winner of TV Food Network Food Club Award! Culinary Society Shipments Arrive
4 Times (year) G-4-Z $600
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The Food Explorer's Club
The Food Explorer's Club is the cousin to Zingerman’s Culinary Adventure Society, the once-every-three-months dive into our latest food finds. Where the Society features upwards of ten items each shipment, Explorer's highlights just one or two. A brand new find. It may be an old food just discovered. Or a new one just born. Either way, it will be something that will be like electricity to a curious cook or food lover. We’ll include information on who made it and how to use it. The value of each installment may be more or less than the average, but we promise that over the course of every three months you’ll more than get your money’s—and
– FOOD EXPLORER'S CLUB – tastebud’s— worth. G-EXP-3 3 monthly
installments $125 G-EXP-6 6 monthly
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installments $240 G-EXP-12 12 monthly
Recently explorer and society members tried • 1996 vintage Gewurztraminer vinegar from California • Incredible, rare rice from Tanzania • Brabander goat gouda cheese from Holland • Juniper smoked bacon from Connecticut
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– BREAD CLUB – Three Month Bread Memberships 1 loaf per month 2 loaves per month
FOR THE love OF THE LOAF Bread of the Month Club Our bread is magical. When you walk into Zingerman’s Delicatessen it’s the first thing you see. It’s what you smell. You can’t resist when you’re invited to taste. If you’re worried that someone will think you’re a little crazy for sending bread through the mail, it may reassure you to know that you’re not alone. We send thousands of loaves to bread lovers nationwide. It’s considered by many to be some of the finest bread made anywhere. A real treat.
G-1-3 $70
G-2-3 $100
Roadhouse Bread
Roadhouse & Sourdough
Paesano
Chile Cheddar & Paesano
Chocolate Sourdough
Chocolate Sourdough & Farm Bread
Six Month Memberships 1 loaf per month 2 loaves per month G-1-6 $139
G-2-6 $200
Roadhouse Bread Paesano Chocolate Sourdough Farm Bread Better Than San Francisco Sourdough Jewish Rye
Roadhouse & Sourdough
"Some women are thrilled to get a box from Tiffany, others from Neiman Marcus, but for me one of the most thrilling things I can imagine is a box of breads from Zingerman's." Carol Field, author of The Italian Baker
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cheese Club Monthly world tour
– CHEESE CLUB –
Artisan Cheese of the Month Club
Our Artisan Cheese Club is a chance for you to let someone you know “visit” some of the most incredible dairies and aging caves in Europe and America. Each month we’ll hand cut, wrap and assemble a box of three choice cheeses (over a pound and a half total) and include loads of detailed notes describing where the cheeses are from, how they’re made and how to serve them. We focus each shipment on a specific country. At the end the recipient will have a cheese education that's hard to find these days, including a deep understanding of cheesemaking styles and how to serve and pair the cheese.
We offer a Z Club of strictly American artisan cheeses, too. Read more about it online.
Chile Cheddar & Paesano Chocolate Sourdough & Farm Bread Parmesan Pepper & Jewish Rye 8-Grain 3-Seed & Cinnamon Raisin Pecan Raisin & French Mountain Bread
First Three Months
Next Three Months
Italy
Switzerland
Cave Aged Taleggio Parmigiano-Reggiano Fontina Val d’Aosta
L’Étivaz Antique Gruyère Extra Aged Emmentaler
France
USA
Ossau French Mountain Camembert Fort St. Antoine Comté
Great Lakes Cheshire Bayley Hazen Blue Pleasant Ridge Reserve
Spain
Britain
Farmhouse Mahón Aged Manchego Aged Zamorano
Raw Milk Stilton Montgomery’s Cheddar Kirkham’s Lancashire
G-CHE-3 $200
G-CHE-6 $390
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Forbidden Foods Club A monthly subscription to diet-busting, religious-lawbreaking foods.
– FORBIDDEN FOODS CLUB – First 3 Months
Next 3 months
G-FFC-3 $180
G-FFC-6 $350
Kosher Katastrof
Vegan Villains
Broadbent Sausage Arkansas Peppered Bacon Mo's Bacon Bar
Spencer's Irish Style Bacon Nor'easter Vermont Cheddar Portuguese Sardines
Lactose Intolerance
Hypertensive Episode
Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Farmhouse Gouda Cheese Great Lakes Cheshire Cheese
Sea Salt Topped Pecan Blondie Celtic Sea Salt Caramels Salt-cured Salami
High Fat Holiday
Know Carbs
Buenos Aires Dulce de Leche Brownie Rabitos Chocolate Covered Figs Manchester Double Cream Cheese
Paesano Bread Farm Bread 3 Pound Round Ginger Jump-up Molasses Cookie
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-MORE TASTY CLUBS-
Cured Meats
Estate Olive Oils Club
Baker's Club
Salamis, hams, sausages and other feats of meatliness. 3 months start at $180
Olive oil is our secret passion, and this club is deep delicious. 2 months start at $125
Out most popular foods, now shipped month after month. 3 months start at $99
We offer over a dozen food clubs, with foods that'll melt the heart and tongue of anyone who eats them. Read more online or give us a call. We love to talk food.
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give The GRandEst The Ultimate Basket Unequaled food glory. Includes an assortment of four different Zingerman’s Brownies, Molasses Ginger JumpUp Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman’s Coffee, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, Garden of Eatin' Blue Corn Chips, Salsa, Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, Irish Brown Bread Crackers, Ginger Chimes Candies, Destrooper Belgian Butter Cookies, Mediterranean Olives, Spanish Marcona Almonds, Smooch Lion All Natural Gummies, Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans and a Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar. G-ULT ultimate basket $200 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
italian tour
A Tuscan’s Treat
Includes Zingerman’s Paesano Bread, Zingerman’s Travel Oil, Vecchia Dispensa’s Aged Balsamic Vinegar, Taralli Olive Oil Crackers, Antonio Mattei’s Original Tuscan Biscotti, Italian Slow Dried Pasta, Italian Tomato Sauce from Il Mongetto, Leccino Black Olives, Chocolate Hazelnut Gianduja from Piedmont and a hand cut, hand wrapped wedge of Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. G-TUS italian gift basket $150 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
A baker’S basKEt
Almost as Good as Grandma’s Gift Basket
This is one of our most popular baskets, a selection of some of the baked goods made by Zingerman’s Bakehouse presented in a wooden box emblazoned with the Zingerman’s name. DELUXE (illustrated) Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Zingerman’s Magic Brownie and Black Magic Brownie, Dried Currant Scone and Lemon Scone, Funky Chunky Chocolate Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Triple Chocolate Cookie, Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, Italian Honey and English Preserves. G-GRA-1 deluxe $75
ULTIMATE doubles of all the pastries plus a loaf each of Cinnamon Raisin and Chocolate Sourdough breads. G-GRA-2 ultimate $130 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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built to impreSs Pastry Dreambox
If you want to knock someone’s socks off this is the gift to do it. It’s a foot and a half long pine crate (illustrated) stuffed to bursting with our incredible nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, two Currant Scones, a Magic Brownie, a Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie and a Pecan Blondie, a Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, a Big Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, a Vanilla Cosmic Cake, Banana Bread, Star Thistle Honey and six handmade, crispy Palmiers. G-DRE pastry dreambox, serves 14-16 $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
"Delicious!" Neil, Indianapolis, IN
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Big, beautiful cartooned gift box with Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires and Magic Brownies, a Pecan Blondie, Oatmeal Raisin and Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookies, a Ginger Scone, a Currant Scone, a six pack of all butter Palmiers, our nosher-sized Hot Cocoa Coffeecake and a Vanilla Cosmic Cake. G-BNZ bakehouse bonanza, serves 10-12 $90
Our cartooned gift box includes a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, Walnut-Studded Magic Brownie, Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie, Currant Scone, Vanilla Cosmic Cake, plus a pouch of six handmade, crispy, all butter Palmiers. G-ZBS pastry sampler, serves 6-8 $45
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Pastry Sampler
Baked Goods Bonanza
greAt Snacks right Out of the basket
The Snackboard Gift Basket
This has always been our most popular gift basket. No heating, no cooking, just eating required. SMALL LARGE Zingerman’s Farm Bread, All the foods from the small and mediZingerman’s Nor'easter um plus Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Cabot Cheddar, John Macy’s Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts and a Cheesesticks, Garden of Eatin’ Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie. Tortilla Chips, Premium Salsa, G-SNA-L large $150 Fruit Preserves and a Ca$hew SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY Cow™ Candy Bar. DELUXE (ILLUSTRATED) G-SNA-S small $90 Everything in the other three sizes plus SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY a box of Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, MEDIUM Mediterranean Olives and Zingerman's All the food from the small plus Spiced Pecans. La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, G-SNA-D deluxe $180 Irish Brown Bread Crackers and SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY a Magic Brownie. G-SNA-M medium $130 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY
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Bereavement Gift Box Whenever someone loses a loved one, their house is usually besieged by grand floral arrangements. I usually send food, though, and often find it’s really appreciated—especially when they can enjoy the foods right out of the box. Here’s a great, not too perishable gift of a nosher-sized Zingerman’s Sourcream Coffeecake, a dozen assorted Brownie Bites, our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts, Spanish Chocolate Figs and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee, ground. It’s packed with class in our oval wooden crate with Zingerman’s printed on the lid. Need it there tomorrow? Call us. Not sending in sympathy? No problem, we can remove the identifying sticker. G-BER bereavement gift box $125 G-BER-NL without sticker $125 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
PARTY PROVISIONS Brownie Bite Box
We've cut our extremely popular Magic Brownie to a quarter of its original size then nestle the bites into our blue party favor box with "Zingerman's" emblazoned on the side. Great for all kinds of events.
Party Provisions Boxes G-2BB 2 bite box $6 G-4BB 4 bite box $8 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
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Birthday Cake
Rustic Retreat Dinner Gift Box
Dense chocolate ganache inside, chocolate fondant frosting outside and a large fondant bow on top to tie it all together, so to speak. A stellar presentation with flavor that lives up to the style. Ships frozen. A-ZBC b-day cake, 2¼ lbs, serves 6-10 $125
A “thank you” that’s not a cliché. This gift boxed set includes Italian Pasta and Il Mongetto Tomato Sauce, our Paesano Bread, Travel Olive Oil, handcut ParmigianoReggiano cheese, Chocolate Hazelnut Gianduja bar and Rum Truffles for dessert. G-DIN rustic retreat gift box $90
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Mom-To-Be Gift Box Built for cravings of different latitudes. Our cartoon gift box includes Dulce de Leche Caramel Cream, Rick's Picks People's Pickles, John Macy's Cheese Sticks, Zingerman's Spiced Pecans, Spanish Olive Oil Tortas, Vosges Black Sea Salt Caramel Bar, Ginger Chimes Candies, Black Magic Brownie, Currant Scone and a Mini Sourcream Coffeecake. G-M2B mom-to-be $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
Zingerman’s Midnight Feeding Box What scares the living daylights out of some people just happened to friends of yours. They had a baby. They don’t sleep. How on earth do they eat? Very well, if they’re lucky enough to have friends who send this. The Midnight Feeding Gift Box is filled with a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, a mini Hot Cocoa Cake, two Black Magic Brownies, Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, a Chocolate and Nougat Cigar, Dulce de Leche Caramel Cream, John Macy’s Cheesesticks and a darn cute Zingerman's bib. (Available without bib for any adults in need of midnight feedings.) G-BBY midnight feeding gift box $125 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE
DID YOU KNOW
Get Well Gift Box
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The Munchies Collection
Gift boxed nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Earl Grey Tea, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Ginger Chimes candies, two thick, walnut-studded Magic Brownies and a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough. G-GWG get well gift box $90 G-GWG-NL without sticker $90
Ann Arbor Tortilla Chips, Salsa, Smooch Lion all natural Gummis, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts, John Macy's Cheesesticks, Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar, and a Zingerman’s Magic Brownie. Gift boxed. G-MUN munchies $50
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italian style ice cream, delivered 5T H devoured ANNUand AL Zingerman’s Creamery Gelato
Thick, creamy, elegant, luscious. Eating gelato is an event, a special occasion that borders on a religious experience for ice cream connoisseurs. At Zingerman’s Creamery, our gelato maker, Josh, mixes fresh milk from Calder Dairy—one of the last farmstead dairies in Michigan—with organic Demerara sugar and an array of other good ingredients to churn out this Italian-style ice cream with direct, intense flavors. Made in small batches, shipped direct from the Creamery. Classic flavors include: Vanilla, Dark Chocolate, Mint Chocolate Chip, Dulce de Leche, Peanut Butter, Raspberry Sorbet. Holiday flavors are: Chocolate, Vanilla, Peppermint, Maple Pecan, Toffee Walnut, Lemon Sorbet. G-GEL six classics, 12 oz each $110 G-GEL-HOL six holiday flavors, 12 oz each $110 G-GEL-KIT six classics, plus cups, spoons, napkins $115 FREE ONE BUSINESS DAY OVERNIGHT SHIPPING
Gift Card Any amount good at any Zingerman's business, mailed or electronic. G-GIF mailed for free E-GIF emailed instantly
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