Zingerman's Mail Order Spring 2012 Catalog by Zingerman's Mail Order

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bacon SALE!

Broadbent Bacon

This is one of the country's last traditionally dry cured country bacons. Eating it is like having a really big tannic red wine at the end of your meal or an extra-aged 4 year cheddar for lunch. The folks who make it start with fresh pork belly slabs that are dry cured with salt, sugar and nitrite for a week. It never goes into a brine solution, so moisture actually leaves the slabs while they cure, intensifying the flavors of the meat. The slabs are then smoked over hickory for three or four days. The end result is a great piece of pork, and a little bit goes a long way. Ships frozen. M-HSB 14 oz sliced was $12 NOW $8 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Spencer's Back Bacon

Arkansas Peppered Bacon Made by the Ruff family in Mt. Petit Jean for over 60 years. Hickory smoked and wrapped in a sweet and spicy jacket of crushed black peppercorns. M-ARK 12 oz sliced SAVE was $15 NOW $10 $5 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Arkansas Long Pepper Bacon

Back bacon is basically pork loin with a bit of the side bacon attached, dry cured, then smoked like belly bacon. It's the standard fare in Britain and Ireland. Made in Chicago by British expat Nick Spencer, it's very lean, lightly smoky, subtly sweet. Back bacon is not only great for a breakfast but also a late night fry-up, which is British for "fry everything in your refrigerator." M-IRI 8 oz sliced was $10 NOW $6

Coated with aromatic Balinese long pepper. SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE Exotic and down home at the same time. M-ALP 1 lb sliced was $25 NOW $15 SAVE SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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wild at heart Wild Boar Salami

Arkansas Peppered Ham

We’ve sold this ham at our Deli for ages, and frankly, I don’t know why it’s taken me this long to get my act together and offer it by mail. I get hungry just thinking about it. A full jacket of peppercorns balances the pork’s natural sweetness in a way that’s pure genius. Smoked pork and pepper, apparently, are one of those food combinations that’s meant to be. If you’re worried it’s too spicy, don’t be. Even the blandest tongues at the table, those who balk at anything spicier than mild salsa, think it is amazing. M-HAM-SML 2-3 lbs was $49 NOW $30

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Outstanding Texas wild boar mixed with all natural wild boar pork belly, seasoned with cloves and juniper berries. It's the lean, funky cousin to traditional domesticated pork salami with flavor heavily—and postively— influenced by the boar's outdoor diet of roots, grasses and wild berries. Made by Cristiano Creminelli in Utah. M-WLD 7 oz was $25 NOW $17 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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all reuben kits!

on all reuben 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.

Included • Jewish Rye (Pumpernickel in Brooklyn Reuben) • Meat Fixins

Corned Beef Reuben G-SHE serves 6-8 was $185 NOW $155 G-SHE-2 serves 3-4 was $135 NOW $105 FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING

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• Emmentaler Swiss • Redskin Potato Salad • Coleslaw • Russian Dressing

• Garlicky Pickles • Magic Brownies • Professional Deli Instructions

Turkey Georgia Reuben* G-GEO serves 6-8 was $185 NOW $155 G-GEO-2 serves 3-4 was $135 NOW $105 FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING

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* Cooked in peanut oil

Pastrami Brooklyn Reuben G-BIN serves 6-8 was $185 NOW $155 G-BIN-2 serves 3-4 was $135 NOW $105 FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING

The cornerstone meat Zingerman's Lean Corned Beef

The foundation of Zingerman's Deli. Every week we sell thousands of pounds of our corned beef, much of it piled high on Zingerman's Jewish Rye bread. Wondering how corned beef from the Midwest stacks up next to the deli centers of the east? A few years ago Mo slipped a pound of our corned beef into a blind, all New York City corned beef tasting held by Slow Food. The result—we were voted the best! Ships frozen. M-LCB 1 lb sliced was $25 NOW $17

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John & Amy's Corned Beef & Pastrami Double Dip G-JJA serves 6-8 was $185 NOW $155 FREE OVERNIGHT SHIPPING

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Corned beef's spicy cousin Zingerman's Lean Pastrami

Pastrami is the rich, spicy cousin to corned beef. The fatty navel cut is brine-cured with a load of spices like black pepper and clove and then smoked. Note that pastrami, a different cut of the cow than corned beef brisket, is usually fattier and a little chewier. Ships frozen. M-PAS 1 lb sliced was $25 NOW $17 Requires one business day overnight delivery

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aficionado's choiCE

gird your loins

Ibérico Bellota Cured 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 bellotas (acorns) the last months of their lives. Even in Spain, where bellota pork is more common, eating it is a very special event. 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. A cut of loin is about a foot long, the thickness of a baseball bat handle. It’s riddled with fat: tiny, creamy white flecks among the rosy flesh. Outside it’s coated in paprika which, while not spicy, gives each bite a tiny peppery tingle. Unbelievable stuff. M-LOM 1.1 lbs was $140 NOW $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Ibérico Bellota Cured Shoulder Ham

While hind hams are more popular, front shoulder hams—called paleta—are revered among jamón aficionados for their darker, more intense meat. When Sam Edwards, the third-generation American ham curer visited Spain, time after time he chose paleta as his favorite. I also think paletas make a better choice for a home ham since they’re about half the size and won’t dry out as quickly. This is cured heirloom black Ibérico hog, made from the legendary pigs who spend their final months living in the Dehesa oak tree forest on a diet of acorns (bellotas)—up to twenty pounds per pig per day. The fat created by that diet, when cured, melts in your mouth in a way that seems completely surreal. The texture and flavor are incredible, something we should all experience at least once in our SAVE short lives. M-IPB approx 6 lbs, boneless was $600 NOW $300

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primal italian Capicola

Capicola is what charcuterie professionals call a “primal”. That means it’s one cut of meat, left whole, not a ground up collection of different parts like a salami. In this case the cut is a particular shoulder muscle that Cristiano Creminelli makes this in his traditional Piedmont style: rubbed with salt and cloves, then slow roasted. What you get is pork like no other, an ultra-tender, aromatic shoulder ham that, sliced thin, is a stunning addition to an anti-pasto plate. It also makes one hell of a ham sandwich. SAVE M-CAP approx 2 lbs was $50 now $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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happily in hock

Berkshire Pork Ham Hock

Smoked pig hock, here from the renowned heirloom Berkshire hogs, raised naturally without confinement, without antibiotics. The secret ingredient to real Southern greens and your new base ingredient to stews and soups. A hock will mold up a bit in your fridge, but wash that off and keep it for months and months, hacking off a bit when you need a flavor boost. M-BHK approx 2 lbs was $10 now $5 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The insider's sausage pick

American Country Ham

One of our staff’s favorite foods. It's made by Ronnie and Beth Drennan, from Anna "Grandma" Broadbent's recipe, who started selling it from the family barn in 1909. They mix a batch of fresh pork, sage and red pepper and stuff it into cloth bags that are cured by air drying for a week or so. Before shipping to us, it’s smoked over green hickory for 24 hours. Kept in the cloth bags, it lasts for a long, long time—there’s no rush to use it up. Ronnie eats his sausage for breakfast with eggs and biscuits. Try it in omelets. It also makes some serious sausage gravy. While this yummy sausage is air cured, it is not actually cooked. Warm it, brown it, cook it up and enjoy. M-BRB 1 lb bag was $9 NOW $6

If you're new to American cured ham, you might want to start here. Broadbent is a classic salt-cured and smoked ham, 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 the other American hams here. M-BKM whole, bone-in unsliced, 12-14 lbs SAVE was $125 NOW $85

Grandma Broadbent's Kentucky Breakfast Sausage

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Broadbent Smoked Cured Ham

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Spreadable pork Iowa White

If the name sounds more like a drug than a food, that’s probably intentional. This is spreadable cured pork fat. It’s not lard but more like lardo, the revered Italian cured fat. The flavor is just this side of sweet, the texture is pure velvet, and the porky aroma, tinged with clove, nutmeg, coriander and rosemary, lingers long afterward. Herb from La Quercia, the dealer trafficking it, told me, “Anything you use butter for you can use this.” That might be stretching it, but you could definitely go to town with it. Roast some root vegetables in it and see what I mean. M-IWS 8 oz package was $10 NOW $5 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

The most underRated meat we carRy Usinger’s Smoked Liverwurst

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Usinger’s has been making this sausage to the exact same recipe in the same building on Old World Third Street in Milwaukee since 1880. This is one of those century-old traditional American products, like Alden shoes, that is still made to an amazingly high standard. The nice thing is, you can try it for under ten bucks while a pair of Aldens will put you out five hundred smackers. Usinger's smoked liverwurst (AKA braunschweiger) is exceptionally meaty and smooth, spiced just right. Slice and serve between two slices of Jewish Rye bread (p. 28) for a great midweek sandwich snack. Ships frozen. M-LWS 1 lb was $12 NOW $9 Requires one business day overnight delivery

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welsh cousin

america's standard bearer

A farmhouse raw cow's milk cheese made by Deb and Doug Erb in the foothills of the White Mountains in Landaff, New Hampshire. Inspired by the late, great Chris Duckett’s recipe for traditional Welsh Caerphilly, Landaff has a moist and crumbly texture, with an earthy, buttery flavor, enhanced by a natural rind created by the 3-4 months of aging at the cellars at Jasper Hill in Vermont. Landaff is a deceptively humble cheese so delicious you will easily eat a lot of it. Order up! C-LFF by the lb was $25 NOW $17 SAVE

Mike Gingrich and his crew make this farmhouse cheese using the milk of their mixed herd of 140 cows only when they're out to pasture. Production is small, especially since their herd gives a very low yield. They make up for volume with flavor. It's the kind of cheese that ages well; we select wheels aged a few months more than what you'll find on almost any other cheese counter in America. It’s special reserve stock, the flavor more intense, and to me it catapults Pleasant Ridge to the ranks of the top cheeses in the world. Balanced caramel flavor, long lasting finish. C-PRR by the pound was $37 NOW $25

Landaff from New Hampshire

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Pleasant Ridge Reserve from Wisconsin

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cheesemonger's choice Comté from Fort St. Antoine

Selected just for us from the renowned cheese caves of France's legendary Jura affineur, Maison Marcel Petite, these cheeses are aged inside the 19th-century Fort St. Antoine. Cheesemongers Jason Hinds and Dominic Coyte of Essex Cheese Company visit the caves every six weeks to choose these wheels for us. They select mostly summer cheeses, those made only when the cows are out to pasture in t he flowering hills. These wheels have the most complex flavors Fudgy texture, well balanced, never bitey flavor, Essex selected Comté has a buttery, hazelnut taste that grows on the tongue. It finishes with a wave of cream that slowly expands to fill your entire mouth. A comic's comic, a writer's writer, this is a cheesemonger's SAVE cheese. I could eat it every day. C-COM by the pound was $38 NOW $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

" ...looks like silk and dissolves smoothly on the tongue." Janet Fletcher, San Francisco Chronicle

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selected by neal's yard

Lincolnshire Poacher One of the best new generation, traditionally made British cheeses. Poacher is an all-organic cheese made by Simon & Tim Jones up in the hills off Britain’s North Sea Coast from their herd of Holstein-Friesian cows. If the name is unfamiliar to you, Poacher is basically an English Farmhouse Cheddar with what you might call a Swiss accent in the making. Made from unpasteurized milk, the Poacher is big flavored, nutty and buttery with just a tingle of Swissness in the nose. It starts out fruity, like biting into a ripe peach and then the flavor gets savory, ending with notes of hazelnut and salted butter. C-POA by the lb SAVE was $39 NOW $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Montgomery’s Cheddar

Appleby's Cheshire

There are so many good things I want Sounds like "cheddar," but it's not. to say about this cheese I don’t know That's not to say it's totally differwhere to start. Most important, if ent. Like our Montgomery's Cheddar you’re a cheddar lover, this is prob(right), it's made in a drum shape from ably the closest thing to the original raw cow's milk from the family's herd. cheddar being made on the planet. It's also cloth wrapped, which makes From the birthplace of cheddar, it’s it age faster and, I think, gives it a still made on the farm where the cows more interesting flavor than wax rind graze—making it a farmhouse cheese— cheeses. Similarities aside, the texture it’s still wrapped in cloth, like cheeses and flavor of Cheshire are quite difwere before wax and cryovac came ferent. It's a little drier than cheddar; around. The flavor is grassy, beefy, a the texture is crumbly and light. The total revelation if you’ve never had it flavor tickles your tongue and has a before. Don’t wait any longer. brightness to it that's different from C-EFC by the lb cheddar's beefy savoriness. If you're was $40 NOW $30 lucky, your piece may have a bit of SAVE SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE blue mold inside, which is entirely natural and complements the SAVE flavor nicely. C-CHE by the lb was $37 NOW $27

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Kirkham’s Lancashire

Graham Kirkham is the only person on this earth making truly traditional farmhouse Lancashire cheese. I find it hard to separate the flavor from the mouthfeel myself. It’s crumbly and creamy, mellow and tangy all at the same time, with hints of lemon and yogurt. Soft as a pillow in your mouth, bursting with flavor; a great eating cheese. C-LAN 1 lb was $37 NOW $27 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE SAVE

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Raw Milk Stilton This is the only traditional raw milk Stilton in the world. Working in the cheese’s home county of Nottinghamshire, Joe Schneider and a staff of two turn their herd's fresh milk into raw milk Stilton every day. The curds are hand-ladled before being set into forms and drained. Later, they're pierced with needles and the famous blueing begins. Four to six months later we have the result: an exquisite, legendary blue with broad, buttery flavors that linger on the tongue. Do as the British do and try some alongside a glass of port and a handful of walnuts. Or savor it on its own, the only one of its kind. C-TCH 1 lb was $40 NOW $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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cheese envy

Cheeses of the World Gift Crate There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 lbs, serving 10-12. Packed in our wooden ZingCrate along with a loaf of Zingerman's bread. The beginner assortment focuses on five great, well aged versions of familiar cheeses. The experienced assortment gathers five more rare and adventurous cheese finds. SAVE G-COW-A beginner $15 was $85 NOW $70 G-COW-B experienced SAVE was $100 NOW $80

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CHEese candy

the PEOple'S ChEESe

L'amuse Gouda

Carmody

Made by Liam Callahan in Sonoma, Carmody is a simple cheese, in the best sense of the word. Inspired by the neverexported "people's cheese" of Lombardy, Italy, where Liam fell for the direct, easy-to-enjoy flavors of the wheels that the cheesemakers fed their own families. Jersey cow's milk, slow-pasteurized, aged for just a few months, it has a sweet and creamy flavor with a zippy buttermilk tang finish. Fun to eat on its own, in sandwiches, or mac and cheese. SAVE C-CMD by the lb was $32 now $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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. SAVE C-LAM by the lb was $38 now $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The City Goat

Manchester

If all you've ever had are gummy, bland and waxy goat cheeses, try this. Super-fresh goat's milk and hand ladling will have this little goat cheese practically fall apart in your hands and melt on your tongue. The goat cheese fans at your house will love it; the others will finally understand what all the fuss is about. C-JOG 3 oz round SAVE was $10 NOW $7

It features mold ripening, a technique most popularly known in brie and Camembert. Mold-ripening changes the cheese from the outside in, making it softer and richer as it ages. It's the best way to make really luscious cheeses, something you'll notice the minute a piece of Manchester hits your tongue. Spread some on a baguette. Offer it up in wedges, topped with toasted almonds, hazelnuts or walnuts. C-MNC 1/3 lb round SAVE was $16 now $10

Detroit Street Brick Aged just shy of a month, this goat cheese is dense, studded with whole and crushed green peppercorns that give it a subtle spice. The snow white rind is thin, allowing the flavor of the milk to come through. There isn't much of the typical mushroom flavor you get from a heavily molded cheese. Instead it has more fresh cream flavor, perfumed with pepper. It finishes with a nice citrus note, making this one of the most accessible goat cheeses I know. Perfect for aficionado and novice alike. C-DSB 1 lb brick SAVE was $33 now $25

Dutch Belted Great Lakes Cheshire

Hungarian Style Liptauer Zingerman's Farm Cheese spiked with fresh garlic, Hungarian paprika, capers, toasted caraway and just a touch of anchovy. It’s moderately spicy and exceptionally flavorful. In Hungary, Liptauer is often served in casinos and bars—it’s definitely the sort of stuff that goes great with good salami and beer. C-LIP 8 oz jar was $15 now $10

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Cheshire is originally an English cheese with a tangy, citrusy flavor and a lovely crumble to its texture. Our Cheshire has a bit more earthiness than the English variety, but it’s still a recognizable relative. It's given a luxurious mouthfeel thanks to the high protein milk of a herd of rare Dutch Belted cows, which are the exclusive team of ladies behind this cheese. A note: cheshire may have a bit of blue mold inside; it's entirely natural and complements its flavor nicely. C-GLC by the pound was $37 NOW $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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buy the barRel, get the balsamic Sixteen Year Aged Balsamic in an Oak Barrel

The aging attics of La Vecchia Dispensa in Castelvetro, near Modena, are stuffed with barrels. Old barrels, new barrels. Small ones for precious cargo, large ones for just-cooked must. Made from chestnut, oak and half a dozen other woods, each of them holds balsamic vinegar caught somewhere on its way from grape arbor to bottle. Sounds romantic, doesn’t it? Want one for yourself? La Vecchia Dispensa’s cooper has fashioned a few small, seasoned oak barrels filled with over a quart of our exclusive sixteen year aged balsamic. Use the glass dropper to rescue a bit of balsamic for salads or strawberries. Kept sealed, it’ll last indefinitely and get better with time, just like you. Quantities very limited. Free shipping. V-BAR-16 1 liter barrel of 16 year balsamic was $400 now $200 FREE SHIPPING

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8 year aged 10 year aged At $25 it was a good buy. At $20 it's unbeatable. A kitchen standard. V-8YR 250 ml bottle was $25 now $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The house favorite and the most intensely flavored balsamic of its age I’ve ever tried. V-10Y 250 ml bottle was $35 now $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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30 year aged

With much of the flavor of balsamics that cost twice as much, this is a great deal for a great vinegar. Get a bottle while you can. V-30Y 100 ml bottle was $50 now $30

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March 31, 2012 until Our annual balsamic vinegar sale returns. Stock up your pantry, your neighbor’s pantry, or buy a few birthday gifts.

the regal, rare ones

Tradizionali Balsamics from Modena

These are the vinegars about which legends have been made. Savoring one is an experience to brag about. Buy one for a grand occasion. A golden anniversary. A wedding. A newborn. A graduation. An inauguration. The first strawberries of spring. Read more about them online at www.zingermans.com. Free shipping on these vinegars. V-JUN 100 ml white label juniper was $150 NOW $100 V-MOD-1 100 ml white label was $125 NOW $100 V-MOD-2 100 ml gold label was $200 NOW $150

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four ages

Balsamic Sampler

This little set gives you the chance to match the age of your vinegar to your dish. An 8 year aged for a vinaigrette. 10 year aged to annoint a just-broiled fish. 20 year aged to dip wedges of Parmigiano-Reggiano in. And a remarkable 40 year aged for spring's best strawberries. Four precious small bottles (about an ounce total) of Vecchia Dispensa's 8, 10, 20 and 40 year aged balsamics. They look like beautiful vials of perfume, just way tastier. V-VBT 4 bottles, 1 oz total was $30 NOW $25

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debutante "I love gourmet purveyor Zingerman’s for all the treats – sweet, savory and otherwise–it carries." Charles Passy, Wall Street Journal

Sweet 16 Balsamic Made just for us by Roberta & Marino at La Vecchia Dispensa in Modena. A balsamic blended to capture the woody, earthy intensity of our 10 year aged balsamic and rounded out with a dose of lush sweetness, the kind you'll find in older bottles. This one is 16 years old, ready for the debutante ball. Don't miss it. V-16Y 250 ml bottle was $45 NOW $30

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bunny flop

Easter Fondant Cake (Good for Spring Birthdays, too) Our popular carrot cake—loads of carrots, toasted walnuts and more—with a handmade vanilla fondant frosting, decked out with a clumsy bunny. Quantities limited, reserve yours early. Ships frozen. Available February 25-April 4. A-EAS 2¼ lbs, serves 6-10 $85

yet moRe raBbits, the chOcolate kind Chocolate Bunnies

As cute as can be. As delicious as you can imagine. Made by Vosges with solid milk chocolate, hickory smoked almonds and fleur de sel sea salt (the same blend that’s in their Barcelona Bar, also available). The Easter Bunny never had it so good. P-BNY 2½ oz chocolate bunny $16 P-VOS-BAR 97 g barcelona bar $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

southern spice Arkansas Peppered Ham

Arkansas ham is tasty as can be. It's hickory smoked for almost a day and has a jacket of cracked black peppercorns which balances the natural sweetness in a way that I find really pleasing. I like things spicy, but this isn’t hot at all. In fact, I serve it regularly for my family and even the blandest tongues at the table, those who balk at anything spicier than mild salsa, think it's amazing. The real kicker is that it’s got the bone in, which doubles the flavor by my measure. Instructions for heating are included, but you can also serve it cool. M-HAM-WHL 12-14 lbs, serves 20-25 $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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italy's intense ice cream

Zingerman’s Creamery Gelato Easter Edition 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. Flavors include: Balsamic Strawberry, Ginger, Honey, Vanilla, Dark Chocolate and Spanish Lemon Sorbet. G-GEL six 12 ounce containers $110 G-GEL-KIT office kit: six gelati, plus cups, spoons, napkin $115

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GreEn OliVe Paesano

Chernushka Rye

Like the ultimate dinner bread—Paesano, p. 26—this loaf is crispy on the outside, chewy and full of holes on the inside And, in this case, dotted with green olives throughout. B-GRN 1½ lb loaf $14

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LoOmis BrEAd

The roasted red peppers come from Zingerman's Cornman Farms. The chunks of cheese are cut from wheels of Great Lakes Cheshire, made at Zingerman's Creamery. They're both mixed with tangy Farm Bread dough from Zingerman's Bakehouse and baked 'till the loaf is nice and crusty. A spiritual cousin to our Chile Cheddar Bread (p. 28), Loomis bread has been a huge hit with staff. B-LOO 1¼ lb loaf $15

Chernushka Rye takes our great rye base and enlivens it with loads of nigella seeds, a cross between a pepper and a caraway seed. It has a smoky scent to the finish and a mild amount of spice. Not so much your mouth is burning, just enough to make things interesting—and very tasty. B-CHR 1½ lb loaf $8.50

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MacedoNian Black Bread

This traditional loaf of Macedonia gathers quite an ensemble of ingredients: wheat, rye and cornmeal, mashed potatoes, unsweetened chocolate, coffee, butter, molasses, honey, caraway seeds, cinnamon and nutmeg. You can tell its flavor is complex—just barely sweet, subtly spicy. Will make a delicious, interesting addition to Easter dinner. B-MBB 1 lb loaf $12

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Coconut Macaroons

For just one month a year we make some fantastic Chocolate Orange Passover Tortes. Made with matzo meal instead of flour (so it's acceptable for Passover) they're also loaded with ground almonds, fresh eggs, a touch of orange oil, and Callebaut Belgian chocolate. Gift boxed in our wooden crate. Quantities limited, reserve yours now. Six inches across, serves 8-10. Not Kosher. G-PVT passover torte $45

Years ago, when my friend Josh worked at Zingerman's he taught me about "traditional" Passover macaroons. "Real Passover macaroons are supposed to be terrible. They should come in a can and taste like dirt and glue.” In spite of my interest in traditional food, I guess I fail here. Our coconut macaroons are slightly crunchy on the outside, rich and creamy on the inside. 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. We package a dozen (six chocolate and six vanilla) into a Zingerman’s gift box. Not Kosher. A-MAC 6 vanilla, 6 chocolate, gift boxed $25

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Chocolate Orange Passover Torte

Your own Jewish bakery in a box (Better than) Bubbe's Baked Goods First things first: we don’t want to make anyone angry. Maybe our pastries aren’t better than your Bubbe’s. But these Zingmade sweets are so darned good, I bet even your grandmother would be happy to nosh on ‘em. Our printed gift box is stuffed with our Olive Oil Cake, Rugelach, and a tin of a dozen homemade Macaroons. This offering will easily serve ten hungry souls for breakfast, lunch or midnight snacks. Not Kosher. G-BUB bubbe's gift box $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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It's back! Our most popular Jewish pastry Rugelach

Our legendary Jewish pastry star has returned in a sharp new gift box. Rugelach are the royalty of Jewish baked goods: crispy, flaky, cream cheese pastry, dressed in cinnamon sugar, rolled around a sweet filling. We make two kinds: apricot jam and the classic, toasted walnuts with currants. Small enough to devour in a few bites each, rich enough so a box lasts for a long time. Rugelach make great host gifts. P-RUG 16-20 pieces of rugelach gift boxed half apricot/half walnut & currant $29

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Mandelbread

Forget the biscotti you’ve nibbled in cafes. They don’t belong in the same category as these traditional Jewish treats. 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. Many folks around Zingerman's think mandelbread is closer to shortbread than biscotti, and I agree. Though it’s crunchy, crispy and very dunkable in coffee or milk, it's great enjoyed by itself when a sweet reward is earned. Stash a bag where you need a quick fix: desk drawer, glove box, gym bag… P-MND 8-10 pcs of mandelbread, gift boxed $29 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Buckwheat is beautiful

now with extra virgins

Buckwheat Honeycake

Olive Oil Cake

A honeycake to make your honey happy. Made from a long list of luscious ingredients, including a healthy helping of special buckwheat honey brought to us from Washington state. The honey has a deep, big, bold flavor that stands strong alongside the flavors of toasted almonds, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and organic muscovado natural brown sugar. Serves 5–7 A-BWT-S cartoon gift box $28 G-BWT-S wooden crate $36

Made with toasted almonds, lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon's worth per cake—orange juice, orange liqueur and lots of great extra virgin olive oil. Our olive oil cake has a great balance of sweet, savory and tangy that lingers long after the slice is sent south. Since it's made with olive oil, not butter, you can almost pretend it’s healthy for you. Serves 5-7. A-OOC-S cartoon gift box $35 G-OOC-S wooden crate $45

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roman fish sauce

vietnamese fish sauce

Garum Colatura

Red Boat Fish Sauce

This is one of those foods for folks looking for something both old and new–and flavorful. It’s an ancient convenience food that gets deep flavor without much work. I’d never even heard of garum colatura until I visited the Italian coast south of Naples. There I discovered it’s the liquid that’s drained off the barrels of traditionally cured anchovies. Made much the same way it was 2,000 years ago, it’s used as a quick way to give great anchovy flavor to a dish without having to fillet, soak and chop the fish. The best meal of my Neapolitan trip was a bowl of spaghetti cooked al dente that had been tossed quickly with garum, some very good olive oil, chopped garlic and a touch of dried red pepper. One bottle is enough to season a score of pasta or vegetables. P-COL 100 ml bottle $16

If you’ve ever eaten at a Vietnamese restaurant and ordered the spring rolls, you probably got a small dish of this style of sauce for dipping. But where many fish sauces are chock full of nasty preservatives and whatnots, this one has only two ingredients: anchovies and salt. It's very similar to our garum colatura, the anchovy sauce from Naples at left, though the aging and fermentation are different. If you cook Southeast Asian food you'll find lots of uses for it. In Western dishes you can add a dash while sautéing onions or to the base of any sauce to give the flavor a kick. The same goes for soup. I also think it’s great for meat marinades and sauces, but keep the brakes on—a little goes a long way. P-RBF 500 ml bottle $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Red truffles

Anchovy Stuffed Peppers from Northern Italy

cockles, spanish style Berberechos Galician Cockles—berberechos, in Spanish—are tiny, coveted clams, hand shucked and tinned in simple brine. The amount of handwork to get this done is extraordinary, and the care is evident as soon as you open the tin. The placement of each clam, the wonderful sweet sea aroma and the flavor and texture—ocean sweet, meaty, tender and succulent—are clearly a labor of love. This is the kind of tinned seafood that you find almost nowhere besides Spain where it's considered a delicacy. It may take some time to wrap your head around that idea, or wrap your wallet around the price, but if you know someone who loves special fishes, this is definitely worth splurging on. Just open the tin and serve, like it's done at the best Barcelona tapas bars. No shells. P-CLM 4 oz tin $30

Why "truffles?" Well, no pigs root these out from the ground, but it’s an apt description nonetheless. They’re almost as hard to find, similarly shaped and nearly as expensive. Roberto Santopietro and his crew at Il Mongetto take Sicilian capers and anchovies from the Adriatic and stuff them into exquisite cherry peppers from Piedmont, then pack them all in good extra-virgin olive oil from Umbria. Pop the whole thing in your mouth. Chew slowly. The layers of flavors unfold on your tongue. Sweetness at first, then mild heat, all enhanced by the suave saltiness of anchovies. Before you know it you'll wish you’d bought two jars. P-AUP 180 g jar $35 2 or more $30 each

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JewEl in THE crown Bonito Tuna from Spain

Tuna is one of the most popular foods we sell. It may seem surprising since, in the U.S., tinned tuna is a low-end commodity usually sold in supermarkets. In Spain, however, it’s at the complete opposite end of the culinary spectrum. Tinned tuna, especially these from the fourthgeneration 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.

Bonito Loin

Yellowfin Loin

P-ORT

112 g tin $8 4 or more $6.50 each

P-YLL

6 oz jar 2 or more

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Bonita Ventresca (belly)

Yellowfin Ventresca (belly)

P-TUN 110 g tin 2 or more

P-YVT

110 g tin 2 or more

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"We savored Ortiz straight from the can, like caviar."Cooking Light SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE Where you see this, items ship for $9.99 flat rate per address. Combine with other flat rate items and the price is the same.

Sardines Four or five tender, perfect sardines, unsmoked, nested in a tin of olive oil. Outstanding. P-SAR 125 g $7 2 or more $5.50 ea SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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 plain in olive oil $7 P-MPI 90 g tin with piri piri red pepper $7

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Rizzoli Oil Packed Anchovies Each fillet is cleaned and boned, olive oil-packed in a gleaming gold tin. A hit for over a decade. P-OPA 80 g tin $14 2 or more $12 each

fiery fish

Nonnata di Pesce This is one of those food finds that I’m not sure if more than five people will care about. It’s a mix of tiny silver fish and spicy chiles from Calabria, the red pepper capital of Italy. Nonnata di pesce is spreadable, which is how I’m enjoying it, lavished on a crusty, toasted slice of Farm Bread rubbed with garlic, topped with a few leaves of arugula, a splash of olive oil and a squeeze of lemon. P-NIP 190 g jar $13 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Bayley Hazen Blue A stellar cheese that reminds me a bit of raw milk Stilton, which is not too much of a surprise since its maker, Mateo Kehler of Jasper Hill, learned some of his craft working with Neal’s Yard Dairy in London. The air that enters forms the blue mold which sends veins throughout the cheese, softening its texture, magnifying its flavor. To me, it's the texture that is the real treat. He calls it “a cross between butter and chocolate,” and he’s not stretching it. Frankly, for blue cheese lovers, it’s irresistible. C-BYZ ½ lb hand cut wedge $18 by the pound $35

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Raw Milk Stilton The only traditional raw milk Stilton in the world. Working in the cheese’s home county of Nottinghamshire, Joe Schneider turns fresh milk from the farm's herd into raw milk Stilton every day. The curds are hand ladled before being set into forms and drained. Later, they're pierced with needles, and the famous blueing begins. Four to six months later we taste the result: an exquisite, legendary blue with broad, buttery flavors that linger well into the evening. Selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy just for us. C-TCH ½ lb hand cut $22 1 lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Montgomery’s English Cheddar If you’re a cheddar lover, it's worth noting this is probably the closest thing to the original cheddar being made on the planet. From the birthplace of cheddar, it’s still made on the farm where the cows graze and it’s still wrapped in cloth, like cheddars were before wax and cryovac came around. The flavor is grassy, beefy, a total revelation if you’ve never had it. Don’t wait any longer. C-EFC ½ lb hand cut $22 1 lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Cabot Vermont Cheddar Jasper Hill Farms buys and ages wheels of clothbound cheddar from Cabot Creamery in their cheese caves. The wheels they select just for us have a beefy, brothy flavor. The texture is flakier and less rubbery than waxed cheddar. Aged at least 13 months—about 25% longer than what you’ll find elsewhere—it’s a compelling cheese with a complex, lingering finish that you can’t shake. Ed Behr, in the Art of Eating, called it “The world’s best cheddar.” Buy a piece of Montgomery’s (above), considered the planet's best cheddar by many, to see what you think. C-CCC ½ lb hand cut wedge $18 1 lb $35

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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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Pecorino di Toscano DOP Pecorino is the cheese of Tuscany, the most commonly found, the best made, the most used. It's also almost invariably really, really good. Made from sheep's milk, this sweet, nutty cheese is perfect on pasta, with fava beans or served alongside some good salami and prosciutto. You can usually buy it quite young, when it's still soft. We prefer it at about eight to twelve months old—like this one—when its bolder flavors come through. C-TOS ½ lb hand cut $13 1 lb $25

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Appleby's British Cheshire Appleby’s cheshire is made from raw cow's milk from the family's herd, cloth wrapped, then aged and selected for us by London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy. If you haven’t tried it before you’ll note that it’s a little drier than cheddar; the texture is crumbly and light. The flavor tickles your tongue and has a brightness to it that's different from cheddar's beefy savoriness. If you're lucky your piece may have a bit of blue mold inside, which is entirely natural and complements the flavor nicely. C-CHE ½ lb hand cut wedge $19 1 lb $37

Great Lakes American Cheshire John Loomis’s Cheshire, made from ultra-rich Dutch Belted milk at Zingerman's Creamery has a bit more earthiness than the English variety, but it’s still a recognizable relative. It’s great on its own, but it really shines when it’s on Farm Bread toast, melted just a bit under the broiler. Great Lakes Cheshire may have a bit of blue mold inside. It is entirely natural and complements its flavor nicely. C-GLC ½ lb hand cut wedge $19 by the pound $37

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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. The full force of our guarantee stands behind each. If you don’t like a cheese for any reason— even if you think it's in fine condition, but you just don’t like how it tastes— we’ll refund your hard earned money or send you something you'll enjoy. Makes a great gift for any cheese lover you know, including you.

Our Passports Matured beyond what you’ll normally find in the USA, these four cheeses, including Antique Gruyère and Parmigiano-Reggiano, are often the cheesemaker’s favorites. And mine. G-CCP with artisan bread $80 G-N-CCP with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Four Italian cheeses that taste astounding—we always include at least two perennial favorites like Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano and Piave. G-ITA with artisan bread $80 G-N-ITA with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

"Exceptional!" Marge, North Haven, CT

Our most popular Passport. We’ll include a fab foursome, with English Farmhouse Cheddar, Raw Milk Stilton and others, all selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy, England’s premiere cheese exporter. G-BRI with artisan bread $80 G-N-BRI with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

The Zingerman’s Cheese Passport I enjoy most—a collection of mountain cheeses—is a ticket for tastebud travel that I never tire of. I love cheeses like these; they’re often on my short list of favorites for their long aging and big, bold flavors. We’ll include samples of four mountain cheeses, including Antique Gruyère, Comté and other well-aged wedges. G-MTN with artisan bread $80 G-N-MTN with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Four 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 artisan bread $80 G-N-FRE with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

We’ll pick four of our best-tasting American cheeses, like Zingerman’s 1 Year Aged Vermont Cheddar from Grafton Village, Landaff from New Hampshire and others that are remaking the image of American cheese. G-AME with artisan bread $80 G-N-AME with crackers $80 CRACKER VERSION SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Each Cheese Passport Contains

Four cheeses, wrapped in our special cheese paper

The cheese weighs in at about a pound and a half, which serves 7-10 as appetizers in one sitting; lasts at least two weeks in the refrigerator

Zingerman's Bread or Artisan Crackers

Cheese care and serving help

+ Colorful packaging

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Antique Alpage Gruyère Made only in summer high in the Alps and aged many months more than the usual half year that most Gruyére gets. Imagine the flavor of the Gruyére 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 $14 by the pound $26

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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. C-COM ½ lb hand cut wedge $20 by the pound $38

Zingerman's Comté "...looks like silk and dissolves smoothly on the tongue." Janet Fletcher, San Francisco Chronicle

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Piave from Northeast Italy

L'Étivaz from Switzerland

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 $14 by the pound $27

L'Étivaz is made essentially as gruyère was one hundred years ago. It’s made only when the cows are doing their summer grazing in Alpine pastures in mountain meadows filled with wild flowers and herbs. It must be made in traditional copper cauldrons and only over open wood fires. The resulting cheese is superb: a bit creamier, less sharp than the above-mentioned Antique Gruyère, yet exceptionally smooth and flavorful. Aged for over a year, it has a firm texture, a melt-in-your-mouth butteriness and a lingering lilt of succulent Swiss mountain cream. C-LET ½ lb hand cut wedge $19 by the pound $36

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What white “balsamic” Our most popular balsamic Vecchia Dispensa's 10 Year Aged Balsamic should be Working just off the historic square in the center of the old town

Agrodolce White Balsamic Vinegar

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 250 ml bottle $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

of Castelvetro, southwest of Modena, Italy, Roberta Pelloni and her husband, Marino Tintori, make a range of great vinegars. Although Americans tend to gravitate toward sweet caramelflavored 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 those from the Tintoris. We've been selling them for over a decade, and they have a legion of followers who return to them again and again. All are highly recommended, the ten year aged is the most popular. V-10Y V-8YR V-16Y V-30Y V-VBT

10 year aged 250 ml 8 year aged 250ml 16 year aged 250 ml 30 year aged 100 ml 4 bottle sampler 1 oz

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top notch affordable red wine vinegar Rioja Red Wine Vinegar

the perFect vInaigreTte Oil & Vinegar Odyssey Gift Box

Two of my house standards, laid side by side in our cartooned box. And for the cook who’s ready to branch out beyond bottled salad dressing, my classic, foolproof vinaigrette recipe. Gift box includes Zingerman’s Peranzana extra virgin olive oil from Marina Colonna, rustic and fruity, with an apple-y aroma and a finish that has a whisper of almond. Also included: Rioja red wine vinegar from Spain that's naturally converted, barrel aged for four years and has the mellow, deep flavors of raspberries and red grapes. G-OVO oil & vinegar odyssey box $40

Light-red Rioja wine from northern Spain is naturally converted then moved into old oak barrels, where it spends a solid two years mellowing, intensifying and developing a deep flavor hinting of raspberries, red grapes and oak. V-RIO-375 375 ml $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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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

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 fresh fish. O-AGR 200 ml bottle $36 SHIPS FLAT RATE

south American sensation

Frantoio from Chile The latest bottling, from the summer 2011 harvest is a big, rambunctious 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. To me it has the same sort of appeal of the bitter end of dark chocolate. It’s lively, engaging, intriguing. Not strong but vital, alive. My mouth tingles long after I’ve finished eating it. Organic. O-OZB 500 ml $29 SHIPS FLAT RATE

salad spinner

Citrus Olive Oil Sampler from Italy Orange, lemon, bergamot and mandarin olive oil in a sweet little sampler from Marina Colonna. Whole olives are pressed with citrus rinds, not infused with essences like most citrus oils. Each piece of fruit is peeled by hand before pressing, a step almost no one takes. Miraculous on fish, this is a great gift. O-CIT 4 oil sampler, 1 oz total $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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gift bOx for An oLive Oil fan Tour d'Oil Gift Box This gift lets the recipient experiment at will. Our printed gift box comes with a half liter of feathery light Roi from the Italian Riviera; a half liter of assertive but smooth Peranzana, made just for Zingerman's by Marina Colonna in the Molise and a 1 oz sampler of citruspressed olive oils. Also includes a loaf of Paesano Bread for ripping and dipping. Makes a great gift for a cook of any skill. G-TDO tour de oil $80 paesano bread included! More olive oils online at www.zingermans.com

cult-like, but In a goOd way Maussane

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

TerrificalLy typicaLly

Castello della Paneretta Oil Castello della Paneretta sits majestically on a Tuscan hillside. In fact, it's almost too typically Tuscan to believe, surrounded by fields of olive and cypress trees and rolling vineyards. The oil is also typically Tuscan: full flavored, fantastically fruity, green, gorgeous, delicious. The latest harvest, from fall 2010, has a delightful bitterness, similar to the tannins you taste in black tea. It builds to a peppery peak that hits you in the front and back of the throat. So thick it pours from the bottle like cream, so delicious I find myself thinking of more dishes to use it with. The bottle is as compelling as the oil: tall, thin, octagonal, housed in its own box. Makes a stunning gift. O-PAN 500 ml $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

bold, beautiful, unknown

La Spineta from Puglia

Pugliese oils get little credit on the international oil scene. The region’s reputation is that of a producer of affordable bulk oils. 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 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

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The silky, sexy oil from Tuscany

Savignola Paolina from Tuscany Everyone forgets the name of this oil. It’s long and nearly unpronounceable. Luckily, it has an alias that no one can forget: "The silky, sexy oil from Tuscany." We couldn’t have given it a more accurate moniker. Savignola Paolina olive oil is unfiltered, giving it a thick, creamy, buttery texture. It has a luscious, mouthfilling 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 oil within. Outstanding. O-SAV 500 ml $36

light and elegant leader

Roi from Liguria

On the Italian Riviera, delicacy, not strength, brings an oil acclaim and honor. Roi is one of the best Ligurian oils I’ve tried. It’s been made in the mountain town of Badalucco by the Boeri family since 1900. 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 EACH SHIPS FLAT RATE

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down under oil Yellingbo from Australia

a love aFfair Alziari from Nice

It’s been over two decades since I fell in love with Alziari, the old shop in the historic center of Nice. Their house blend olive oil is light, flowery and elegant but still full of character. The description of its tin could use the same description. It’s such a beautiful package, it makes one of our best gifts even without wrapping. The oil is perfect for a traditional Salade Niçoise. Gourmet and Fine Cooking have both written about how they love Alziari; it’s been one of our most popular oils for years. Full disclosure: this oil is not made from 100% French-grown olives. The Alziaris also source olives from Spain and Italy. O-ALZ 1 liter tin $55 Ships for flat rate

Yellingbo has aromas of spice, green apple, tomato and citrus and what my colleague Annette describes as a "light ocean breeze." The flavor is smooth, almondy, with a slow march of pepperiness that builds on your tongue. Ours is a special blend made from Manzanillo, Leccino, Picual and Corregiola olives, bottled unfiltered, and is more robust than Yellingbo you might buy elsewhere. Outstanding to finish stronger dishes, from barbecued shrimp to roasted vegetables to steak. O-YEL 500 ml bottle $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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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 $8.50 B-2K-ROA 2 kilo handmade round $25

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 1.5 pound loaf is pictured, but the 3 pound round is my favorite. Cut into quarters and freeze what you don’t eat. B-FRM-RND 3 lb handmade round $14 B-FRM-LOF 1½ lb handmade loaf $8.50

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 .75 kilo loaf (about 1.65 lbs) that’s good for munching and a 2 kilo (about 4.5 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 $11 B-MON-B 2 kilo handmade “Z” loaf $26

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 $8.50

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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 1¼ lb handmade loaf $17

choColate sourdOUgh

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

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 $9.50

pecan raisin

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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 $15

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 $9.50

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peppered bacon farm

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

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 Tellicherry 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

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 Vermont 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 $14

jewish breadS, RYe & Beyond

Traditional Jewish rye bread is an endangered American species. Nineteen 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), handmade with 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. Jewish Rye B-RYE 1½ lb loaf $8.50 B-2K-RYE 2 kilo round $25

Pumpernickel B-PUM 1½ lb loaf $8.50

Caraway Rye B-CAR 1½ lb loaf $8.50 B-2K-CAR 2 kilo round $25

Onion Rye B-ONI 1½ lb loaf $8.50

"America's very best rye? No contest...It comes from Zingerman's Bakehouse, which makes loaves of rugged rye that are dense and springy, laced with the taste of hearth smoke." Jane and Michael Stern, Saveur

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bREAkfast breads

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 $45

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 $40

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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. Indulge 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

Handmade Bread Knife We’ve sold Rory Conner’s outstanding cheese knives for years. And over the last couple years we’ve worked together to create a bread knife just for Zingerman’s. We’re excited—we just got our first shipment. Rory makes his knives by hand in County Cork, Ireland. Without exception they’re handsome, sturdy, gift-worthy specimens. The bread knife is especially lovely. The handle is made of highly polished wood laminate, coated in resin, colored a beautiful fall leaf blend of brown and red. The blade is held in place with substantial stainless steel bolting. The slope nosed blade measures just over nine inches, long enough to be useful when you’re working on a three pound Farm Round. It’s an heirloom quality piece that a bread lover will cherish. Packed in a wooden box. P-BRK bread knife, 9 inch blade $250

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Michigan Mitt Maple Cutting Board The company is 129 years old, from Michigan. The wood is from Michigan. The board is even shaped like Michigan (at least the lower peninsula–sorry U.P.!). Made with durable slat construction from Michigan maple. A great gift. P-MIT 17 inches x 13 inches $85 FREE SHIPPING

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rOad FOod extraordinaire American Snacker

Our cartoon gift box includes Zingerman’s Butter Toasted Peanuts, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Ann Arbor Tortilla Chips, Toasted Walnut Magic Brownie, Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie and Mrs. Sipp’s Spiced Almonds. G-ACK american snacker gift box $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

late Night refrigerator Lust causing problems? Phantom of the Fridge Gift Box

If someone you know is missing out on Zingerman’s nosh and whining like a school kid at the end of summer vacation, try this on them. They can raid the fridge for weeks and find a Zingerman’s treat every time. The gift box includes a loaf of Zingerman’s Bread, a half pound piece of 1 Year Aged Zingerman’s Vermont Cheddar, French-Style Salami, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts, Vampire’s Lunch Black Currant Gummies, Rick’s Picks PaprikaSpiked Pickled Okra, a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, a handmade Zzang!® Chocolate Bar, John Macy’s Cheesesticks and a Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie. G-PHA phantom box $100

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an evening at the (home) wine bar Tapas Gift Box

Perfect for parties great and small: a well-edited collection of open and serve delectables. 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 Olive Oil Taralli Crackers. Serves 6-8 quite handily. G-TAP tapas gift box $80

Zingerman’s Experience Gift Cards never spoil and never go out of style. And we never charge extra fees. Available in any dollar amount. Redeem them online at www.zingermans.com or at any Zingerman’s business. E-GIF instant delivery electronic gift card FREE SHIPPING G-GIF plastic gift card

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final FOod FANtasy Zingerman’s Food Fantasy Gift Spectacular

It’ll take them days to taste everything. Weeks to enjoy it. And you’ll get years of thanks. A collection of all our top-selling, most popular, most delicious products, gathered in one grand wooden crate the size of a small bass drum. It should come with its own MC—they’ll feel like they’re on stage when they’re opening it. Giant wooden crate includes a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough, Ortiz Spanish Bonito Tuna, Butter Toasted Peanuts, Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter, Vecchia Dispensa’s 10 Year Aged Balsamic, Dufflet Crackle, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs, Finnish Black Licorice, Turkish Marash Pepper, Zingerman’s Coffee, John Cope’s Dried Sweet Corn, Lebanese Pomegranate Molasses, Smoked Spanish Piquillo Peppers, a nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, a big tin of our own Spiced Pecans, Olive Oil Tortas with Anise and Sugar, Magic Brownie & Buenos Aires Dulce de Leche Brownie, Italian Spaghetti, Blanxart Spanish Hot Cocoa, Zingerman’s Olive Oil and Portuguese Sardines. G-ZFF food fantasy $300

the Envy of cheEse lOverS EveRywhEre Cheeses of the World Gift Crate

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 lbs, serving 10-12. Packed in our wooden ZingCrate along with a loaf of Zingerman's bread. The beginner assortment focuses on five great, well aged versions of familiar cheeses. The experienced assortment gathers five more rare and adventurous cheese finds. G-COW-A beginner cheeses of the world $85 G-COW-B experienced cheeses of the world $100

coOk's CompaNion

Pasta Sauce Protection Gift Box Three different sauces, like Il Mongetto's perfect tomato sauce, real Ligurian Pesto from Northern Italy, and Harissa sauce from Tunisia. Two different pastas, Rustichella's fabulous fettucine and Morelli's pasta from Tuscany. Plus a nice wedge of Parmigian0-Reggiano. G-PAS gift box $80 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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hOmemade jewish paStriEs Rugelach and Mandelbread

They’re back! Our semi-legendary Jewish pastry stars have returned in sharp new gift boxes. Rugelach are the royalty of Jewish baked goods: crispy, flaky, cream cheese pastry, dressed in cinnamon sugar, rolled around two different fillings: apricot jam and toasted walnuts with currants. Mandelbread are essentially Jewish biscotti, traditionally triple-baked half moons of lemon and orange scented cookie, loaded with toasted almonds. Not Kosher. P-RUG 16-20 pieces of rugelach gift boxed half apricot/half walnut & currant $29 P-MND 8-10 pcs of mandelbread, gift boxed $29 EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

chocolate vices

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A nosher-sized Hot Cocoa Coffeecake accompanied by two brownies (Walnut-Studded Magic and Buenos Aires Caramel Dulce de Leche) and two Cosmic Cakes (Vanilla and Peanut Butter). G-SUS chocolate suspension gift box $50

Zingerman’s legendary Magic Brownies—with and without toasted walnuts—carved down to quarter size. Each is all natural, baked with real butter, cane sugar and dark Belgian chocolate. G-MBB 20 assorted brownie bites in cartoon box $36 G-M50 50 assorted bites in wooden crate $100 G-M100 100 assorted bites in wooden crate $175 G-M200 200 assorted bites in wooden crate $325

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chOColate pilLOws Cosmic Cakes

Zingerman’s Cosmic Cakes are cloud-soft chocolate cakes stuffed with three different butter cream fillings: fresh vanilla, peanut butter and mint. The cake is made with Guittard cocoa and it's wrapped in a thin cloak of dark Guittard and Valrhona chocolates. About the size and color of a hockey puck, they have a little snap when you bite, after which you meet a soft, melting texture that will make you think you’re eating a chocolate pillow. Packed in our fun cartoon gift box. G-COS two of each flavor, six total $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Custom Zingerman's Pastry Sampler Gift Box Create your own assortment of Zingerman's big brownies, creamy scones and stellar cookies. Choose the mix youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like 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.

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Choose from any of these pastries, in any combination, and pay the same price.

Our classic with toasted walnuts.

The classic minus the nuts.

With dulce de leche caramel.

Gluten free* with amaranth and quinoa, not wheat.

No-chocolate brownie, with pecan praline, topped with sea salt.

With candied orange peel and toasted almonds.

With spicy, crystallized ginger.

* Not made in a gluten free facility.

With Michigan dried cherries.

With candied lemon zest.

With spicy, crystallized ginger.

A savory scone with Vermont cheddar and fresh rosemary.

With muscovado brown sugar and juicy chunks of crystallized ginger.

A rustic special with organic rolled oats, pecans, red flame raisins and cinnamon sugar.

With maple syrup, organic oats and giant red flame raisins.

"The world's best specialty food." Oprah.com

Crumbly peanut butter cookies using all natural peanut butter.

Chunks of Callebaut chocolate and toasted walnuts.

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give the grandest The Ultimate Basket

Unequaled food glory. Includes an assortment of four different Zingerman’s Brownies, Ginger Molasses JumpUp Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Zingerman’s 1 Year Aged Vermont Cheddar, French-Style Salami, Zingerman’s Coffee, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, Garden of Eatin' Blue Corn Chips, Salsa, Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, Rustic Bakery Olive Oil and Sea Salt Flatbreads, Ginger Chimes Candies, Destrooper Belgian Butter Cookies, Mediterranean Olives, Raye’s Down East Schooner Mustard, Smooch Lion All Natural Gummies, Mrs. Sipp’s Spiced Almonds and a Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar. G-ULT ultimate basket $200 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

italian fOod vAcation A Tuscan’s Treat Gift basket includes Zingerman’s Paesano Bread, Zingerman’s Tuscan Travel Oil, Vecchia Dispensa’s Aged Balsamic Vinegar, Farmhouse ParmigianoReggiano Cheese, Taralli Olive Oil Crackers, Antonio Mattei’s Original Tuscan Biscotti, Italian Pasta, Tomato Sauce from Il Mongetto, Leccino Black Olives, Hazelnut Gianduja from Piedmont. G-TUS italian gift basket $175

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.

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Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Zingerman’s Magic Brownie and Black Magic Brownie, Dried Cherry Scone and Ginger Scone, Funky Chunky Chocolate Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, ZBPB Peanut Butter Cookie, Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, Italian Honey, English Preserves and Hammonds Candy All Natural Lollipop. G-GRA-1 deluxe $75

doubles of all the pastries plus a loaf each of Cinnamon Raisin and Chocolate Sourdough breads. G-GRA-2 ultimate $135

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If you want to knock someone’s socks off this is the gift to do it. A foot and a half long pine crate stuffed to bursting with our nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, two Cherry Scones, a Magic Brownie, a Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie and a Pecan Blondie, a Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie, a Big Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, a Cosmic Cake, Mandelbread Jewish Biscotti, Varietal Honey and six crispy Palmiers. G-DRE pastry dreambox, serves 14-16 $150

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 Cherry 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 $95

Our cartooned gift box includes a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, Walnut-Studded Magic Brownie, Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie, Cherry 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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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 Zingerman’s Farm Bread, Zingerman’s 1 Year Aged Vermont Cheddar, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Garden of Eatin’ Tortilla Chips, Premium Salsa, Fruit Preserves and a Zzang!® Candy Bar. G-SNA-S small $79

Medium All the food from the small plus French-Style Salami and Miller’s Damsels Crackers. G-SNA-M medium $110

Large All the foods from the small and medium plus Artisan Kids Strawberry Biscuits, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts and a Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie. G-SNA-L large $150

Deluxe Everything in the other three sizes plus a jar of Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, Mediterranean Olives and Mrs. Sipp’s Spiced Almonds. G-SNA-D deluxe $175

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in sympathy 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, eight assorted Brownie Bites, our 1 Year Aged Vermont Cheddar, French Style 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

foOd nurse Get Well Gift Box

Our cartooned gift box comes stuffed with a nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Earl Grey Tea, Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter, Ginger Chimes candies, two thick, walnut-studded Brownies and a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough. G-GWG get well gift box $75 G-GWG-NL without sticker $75

brand new baby or 2 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 1 Year Aged Vermont Cheddar, French Style Salami, a Chocolate and Nougat Cigar, Dulce de Leche Caramel Cream, John Macy’s Cheesesticks and a darn cute bib with a Zingerman’s patch on it. (Available without bib for any adults in need of midnight feedings.) G-BBY midnight feeding gift box $125

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"I use Zingerman’s any time I want to impress my clients, friends or even myself." Linda, Fairfax, Virginia

Awesome Office Supply Gift Box Even if the staff at your client's office has never heard of Zingerman’s, they won’t forget you. Our printed gift box comes stuffed with our mini Sourcream Coffeecake and a mini Hot Cocoa Coffeecake, ten assorted Brownie Bites, two Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, a Ginger Jump-up Molasses Cookie, Zingerman’s Coffee (ground), Italian Biscotti, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, Rustic Bakery Olive Oil and Sea Salt Flatbreads, Mrs. Sipp's Spiced Almonds and Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts. Feeds a dozen without regret, often for a couple afternoons. G-OFF awesome office supply gift box $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

just for kids

thank you

Our cartoon box includes: all-natural Gummis, organic Yummy Earth lollipops, eight Zingerman’s Black Magic Brownie Bites (without nuts), a mini What the Fudge?! Handmade Candy Bar and British Strawberry Biscuits. Bonus: two fun Zingerman’s temporary tattoos! G-KID ready for recess box $45

A “thank you” that’s not a cliché. This gift boxed set includes Italian Pasta and Il Mongetto Tomato Sauce, a wedge of Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese, our Paesano Bread, Rum Cunesi Truffles and a bar of Italian Hazelnut and Chocolate Gianduja. G-DIN rustic retreat gift box $75

Ready For Recess Box

Rustic Retreat Dinner Gift Box

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Save a student! The Munchies Collection 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

birthday

Handmade Birthday Cake Dense chocolate ganache inside, chocolate fondant frosting outside and a large fondant bow on top to tie it all together, so to speak. Ships frozen. A-ZBC b-day cake, 2¼ lbs, serves 6-10 $90

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FoOds from around the five Great Lakes Great Lakes Artisan Gift Box

Peanut Butter from Koeze in Grand Rapids, Small batch 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 great lakes artisan gift box $100

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Artisan Market Gift Box

Our classic cartooned gift box includes a mini Sourcream Coffeecake and hearth baked bread from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, a bag of freshly roasted whole bean coffee from Zingerman’s Coffee Company, a wedge of Great Lakes Cheshire Cheese, a Walnut-studded Magic Brownie, a Fresh Vanilla and Buttercream Cream Cosmic Cake and a Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar. G-ART artisan market gift box $80

A WHO's who of americaN artisAnS American Artisan

Robert Lambert’s Rangpur Lime Syrup from California, Broadbent Sausage from Kentucky, Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese from Wisconsin, Virginia Diner Peanuts, La Quercia’s Cured Ham from Iowa, Raye’s Mustard from Maine, Askinosie’s Chocolate Bar from Missouri. G-AMT gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the BAcoN biBlE

Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon The first in-depth book on America’s favorite fat. Author Ari Weinzweig guides you on a personal tour of bacon's long and curious history. You'll find out why bacon is "the olive oil of America." You'll travel from medieval England, where bacon was used to promote matrimonial harmony. You'll head to the farm and learn about 19th-century drovers who were crucial to the hog trade. Ari's story shows how bacon moved from delicious farm staple to a huge-selling flavorless commodity—and how it's going back to its roots today. P-ARI-10 hardcover 240 pages $29.99 SHIPS FOR $3.99 BOOK RATE

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For three decades we've sought out traditional, flavorful foods and brought them to you. Now we invite you to the source. To have an artisan food maker invite you into their life, share their passion and traditions, then feed you the food you only read about in culinary journals… This is something few people get to experience in their lifetime. Sign up for one of our guided food tours now, before they sell out. Learn more at www.zingermansfoodtours.com

“I’d recommend this trip to anyone. I had a great time… it’s definitely something I could never have experienced if I had just gone on vacation on my own.” Kelly, Sicily 2009

Sicily food tour October 14-24, 2012

Tuscany food tour October 3-11, 2012

This is one destination that needs no introduction. We'll arrive in central Italy when most of the tourists have left and the harvest is in full swing. Fall is the best time to eat in Italy, hands down. You'll do it in style, with American expat and Tuscan veteran Peggy Markel leading the way. Cooking lessons, wine, amazing food, and the unparalleled scenery of Tuscany. Sign up soon—this tour sells out early. $5,900 per person $5,400 each for two sharing a room

Traveling to Sicily without a guide can be intimidating. The mythology of the island’s passions—along with the reality of its closed, insular culture—can make it hard to get below the surface. Alone, Sicily can make you feel like you're standing on a mountain of culture and food that remains buried beneath you. Let us reveal Sicily’s food to you. We'll travel with Gioacchino Passalacqua, a native Sicilian who has direct connections to many of the island's best food makers. We'll visit a handful of them making chocolate, wine and olive oil. This is the chance of a lifetime, an opportunity to see traditional foods that you can't anywhere else. $5,800 per person

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Tunisian Preserved Lemons I’ve always liked the concept of preserved lemons. But I get stumped at the same place you probably do: what do you do with them? You can research recipes and get an idea, but I wasn’t truly inspired until I ran into a friend who lived in North Africa who said, “I love them in everything!” Everything? Simple enough place to start. Simply cut off a slice or two (return the rest of the lemon to the brine where, refrigerated, it will last almost indefinitely) and mix into your favorite sauces. Toss with salads. Garnish grilled meat. Add a slice to a martini. Grown and preserved on the wonderful Mahjoub farm in Tunisia, where we also get great harissa. Mr. Mahjoub recommends slipping a few slices of preserved lemon in a whole fish before baking, then putting a couple more slices on top before serving. P-LEM 2 lemons per jar $10

Robert Lambert's Salt Cured Rangpur Limes Salt preserved lemons (left) are common in Mediterranean cuisine. Robert applies the same technique to smoky, delicious rangpur limes. Sliced, use them in sautés, tuna sandwiches, cocktails. P-SCL 8 oz jar $20

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TIP: Add slices of preserved citrus to a baguette sandwich with Ortiz tuna (p. 17) and harissa.

first and last among red pepper Marash Red Pepper Flakes

Marash Turkish red pepper flakes are the most impressive, flavorful dried red pepper flakes I've ever tried. They have an amazingly full flavor with just a moderate amount of heat. You can add them to your food while it's cooking. Or sprinkle on a finished dish for extra flavor. Personally, my kitchen hasn't been without a jar of Marash for the past ten years . I use it in all sorts of ways. In vinaigrettes. On eggs. In pasta sauce. Blended with lemon juice and spread on chicken, lamb, fish. More than a few customers have called this their “secret ingredient” but I'm not much of one for secrets. Share the news, this is really good. P-MAR 49 g jar $13

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exceptional turkish pepper Urfa Red Pepper Flakes

Dried in the sun by day, then wrapped and sweated at night for over a week, Urfa pepper flakes have a rich, earthy flavor and smoky aroma that's ravishing. They have a meaningful but still moderate level of heat. In Turkey they're added to all sorts of finished dishes—always at the end, not during cooking. (My guess is that's because the aroma is pretty special, but I've added them at all stages of cooking.) You can sprinkle them over almost any salad, pilaf, pasta or meat. Culinary writer John Thorne really likes them mixed with mayo for a spicy, smoky spread. Your guests will wonder what you've done to create such flavorful food. P-URF 49 g jar $13 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Oil olives for the table Leccino Olives

One of my of all-time favorites, Leccino olives are rarely available for eating because most all of them are used up by oil makers who crave their complex, sweet, olivey flavor. Thanks to the efforts of Marina Colonna in the Molise region of Italy, we've got the chance to taste them: ripe, sweet, succulent black beauties from the sun-kissed fields of southern Italy. Marina marinates them in extra-virgin olive oil, tiny dried red peppers and a snippet of orange rind before packing them into beautiful glass bottles. Truly a great gift for anyone who loves black olives. P-LEC 200 g jar $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the LitTle Guy Sahli Olives

The underdog of the olive world. With purple flesh that falls off easily, softly, sensuously, the small, sweet, Sahli olive possesses a fullness of flavor and a richness of texture way larger than their small size might lead you to believe. P-NSO 130 g jar $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Sun-kisSed

Sicilian Semi-Dried Cherry Tomatoes By far the best and the sweetest sun dried tomatoes I’ve ever tried. Little known in the U.S., this super sweet varietal is grown only in Sicily. The ripe tomatoes are hand picked then dried in the sun for 3 full days—not in ovens as most commercial versions are—then packed with fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil. (Save the oil at the end for salad dressings or marinades.) P-PAC 290 g jar $25 2 or more $22.50 ea

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ripe flavor alL year The secret base San Marzano Tinned Tomatoes

Sicilian Strattu

There's nothing shameful about using canned tomatoes. In fact, for ten or eleven months of the year they're usually much better than fresh. San Marzano tomatoes are an heirloom variety that came to fame in Southern Italy in the eponymously named town near Naples. Nowadays they are generally regarded as one of the most flavorful plum tomatoes in the world. P-ZTO 28 oz tin $6 2 or more $5 each

It takes over ten pounds of fresh tomato sauce to fill one jar. That should give you an idea of the density of flavor located within. You'd think they make this stuff on Jupiter, but no, it comes from southern Sicily. It is the secret that Sicilian chefs employ to turn sauce from typical to terrific. Melt a bit in olive oil to start your sauce. Strattu (or estrattu, they're the same thing) adds a depth of flavor that would otherwise take you hours of cooking and reduction to create. A little goes a long way. P-EST 180 g jar $12

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perfect peanuts

Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts Big, fat, perfect shelled Virginia peanuts are fried just for us, to order, at Virginia Diner in Wakefield. Fried peanuts are a Virginia specialty, and while not higher in fat than roasted peanuts, they’re way more flavorful. I’ll go out on a limb and say they’re my favorite nut ever. When you’re in town, stop by our Roadhouse and try our donut sundae dessert, where the salted nuts are featured to great effect. P-VDP 10 oz tin salted $7.50 2 or more $6 each SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

peanut crack

Butter Toasted Peanuts These are unfair. Big, fat, fried, salted Virginia peanuts are fine enough on their own. We should all be content to eat them as is. The folks at Virginia Diner, however, have taken them one step further. They coat them in butter and sugar. The butter forms a crispy, caramel-like jacket. The sugar sweetens them just a little. The result is painful, impossible to stop eating and should be illegal. This is the closest thing to crack we sell. Consider yourself warned. P-NUT 10 oz tin butter toasted $7.50 2 or more $6 each

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spain's NationAl nut Marcona Almonds

Marconas are about ten times more flavorful than the California almonds we’re used to. Their shape is flat, not almond-like at all, and their flavor falls naturally on the sweeter side. The folks who make these amplify that flavor by removing the skins (which add a metallic bitterness without adding much else), frying them in olive oil then tossing them in sea salt. 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 $7.50 2 or more $6 each

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Piparra Tapas Peppers

Piquillo Peppers

Traditional peppers of the Basque region, piparras are yellowish green in color with a mild, halfpickled flavor. My favorite way to eat them is like they do at pinxos tapas bars in Basque country, skewered in a U shape with an anchovy. P-PPP 6.5 oz jar $10

Piquillo pimientos are to peppers what Parmigiano-Reggiano is to cheese: the undisputed sovereign. There are many versions on shelves these days, and most are nowhere near as flavorful as these. P-PIQ 220 g jar $16

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calabrian spring 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 $23 2 or more $20 each

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not actualLy A gimMIck Violet Mustard

This violet mustard caught my eye almost five years ago. It seemed like a gimmick—“The most exciting new mustard innovation in ages,” I thought to myself. I suppose it's no surprise—even though it was to me—that it's actually a very old combination. Moutarde au violette has been eaten in French grape growing regions for centuries. It used to be made each autumn by blending freshly pressed red grape juice with just ground mustard seed. It was a lost art until Elie-Arnaud Denoix worked for a year to revive it. Violet mustard is coarsely ground and crunches when you bite, like caviar. It's naturally sweet and spicy, making it ideal for serving with meats of all sorts. In its home region of Perigord it's a traditional side for boudin sausage cooked with apples. It also adds a flowery flush of flavor to fresh cheeses like our City Goat (p. 9). P-VIO 200 g jar $13 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

A "dark aubergine beauty" with "molasses-like flavor" Sara Dickerman, Wall Street Journal

italian wine bar snack High Flyer Coffee High Flyer is our blend of Guatemalan and Ethiopian Sidamo beans, roasted not too dark. The coffee has a sweet, clean flavor—the tannins are very mild—with fruity brightness and just a hint of savory. It finishes with a lovely floral flourish. P-8-MOB 8 oz whole bean $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Peperoni Cruschi from Italy

If you have a soft spot in your heart for peppers or potato chips—or both—you’ll love these. Very mild chiles from the Massimo family in Basilicato are dried in the sun for a few weeks, fried in a bit of the farm’s own olive oil and then salted. The result is a sweet, smoky, salty, crispy sensation that’s quite habit forming. Not at all spicy—the more you eat, the more you want. Italians nibble them alongside a glass of wine, presumably with the willpower to stop. I've also heard of folks adding chopped cruschi to soup. P-POS 25 g bag $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The best pasta sauces I know of Il Mongetto Tomato Sauces

For years Il Mongetto has been the top contender for my favorite bottled pasta sauces. They have a clean, fresh flavor that I love. Conjured up by the serenely insightful Santopietro family in the shadows of the Italian Alps, these sauces are filled with tomatoes, shallots, celery, carrots and olive oil from Umbrian maker Alfredo Mancianti. They feature complex, compelling flavors that other sauces only aspire to. Pasta with Il Mongetto sauce is the best fast food I know. P-ILL-PLA 314 ml plain P-ILL-MEZ 314 ml midnight slightly spicy P-ILL-DIA 314 ml diavola spicy P-ILL-TUN 314 ml tuna P-ILL-MUS 314 ml porcini mushroom 2 or more of any one type

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HeirLoOm WHEAT Primo Grano Chitarra

This pasta, made with heirloom wheat is more toasty, more wheaty, more flavorful. I’d skip the heavy sauce and try this one dressed simply with pepper, salt, olive oil and Parmigiano-Reggiano. Chitarra—guitar string—the traditional shape in its home area of Abruzzo, is a squared off spaghetti. P-PGC 500 g bag $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

traditional pesto Roi Ligurian Basil Pesto

textboOk pasta Rustichella Pasta

Gianluigi Peduzzi’s Rustichella pasta, from Italy’s Abruzzo region, has long been a staple in my home. Hard durum semolina is extruded through bronze dies so it has a scruffy, rough surface, perfect for holding sauce. It’s easy to cook textbook al dente pasta with Rustichella. In fact, with the fettucine especially—my favorite—it’s almost hard to overcook it. Beautifully packaged in kraft paper bags, this pasta is so good you can give it as a gift. P-RUS-FET 500 g fettucine $8 P-RUS-PEN 500 g penne $8 P-RUS-SPA 500 g spaghetti $8 2 or more of any one $7 each EACH SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

sicilIAn Pesto Pesto Trapenese

We've carried Franco and Rosella Boeri's traditional pesto for well over a decade. It's still the best jarred pesto I've had. It makes an easy, quick dish, added to pasta and topped with just a bit of cheese like Parmigiano-Reggiano or Pecorino. It's also excellent as a spread on bruschetta, or served with a fresh, warm ball of mozzarella and a perfect little tomato. Thanks to the quality of the basil and olive oil it is, in my opinion, often better than homemade and substantially less work. Lasts for ages once opened and covered with a bit of olive oil. P-PTO 180 g jar $12

Although Sicilians use the term “pesto” here, the ingredients have little to do with what we know as pesto, the basil-based sauce from the Riviera, at left. In Trapani, a small town south of Palermo, pesto means superb Sicilian almonds, local tomatoes, fresh basil, garlic and olive oil. The basil definitely takes a back seat to the almonds and tomatoes, making it very different. A unique spread that’s easy to use for everything from pasta to seafood—a staple in Trapani—to bean soups. P-PTR 180 g jar $15

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PhilipPIne RIce Tinawon White Rice

Sun dried heirloom rice that, though white, still has bran intact. With a toasty, nutty flavor you never find in commercial white rices. P-TWR 1 lb $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Italian cOrn

Polenta from Piedmont The best polenta I've ever had, period. From otto file heirloom corn, field dried and stone milled—three factors which contribute to its unparalleled flavor. Organic. P-POL 1 kilo fine texture $16 P-POL-COA 1 kilo coarse $16

Stones, not stEeL Macroom Irish Oatmeal

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Eating this for the first time is like taking your first promenade in Paris, France, when all you’ve known is Paris, Texas. 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 oatmeals. P-OAT 2 lb $16

french Rice

Red Rice from Camargue With a nutty, full flavor that stands well on its own, or as a base of a dish. Grown in the marshes near Marseille for five hundred years. P-CAM 13 oz $9 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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the orchestra of COUscous Couscous M’hamsa

If you’re like me and always wondered what the fuss was about couscous—to me it seemed more like a vehicle for flavor, not something flavorful in itself—here’s your answer. Totally delicious, toasty, wheaty couscous that is as tasty as anything you add to it. M’hamsa means ‘by hand’ in Arabic and that’s exactly what this is: handmade couscous from the farm of Majid Mahjoub. The ground semolina, from wheat grown on the farm, is mixed slowly with water and a touch of sea salt and Majid's extra virgin olive oil. The couscous is very literally hand rolled and dried the old way in the sun. “We make it a first time, then let it rest three days, and then we roll it again,” Majid explained. It takes about ten days to make a batch. “We have a whole team,” he told me. “Every person has their role. It’s like an orchestra.” Packed in glass jars. P-HRL 500 g jar $12 2 or more $10 each

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Sun Dried Garlic Spread Sun drying concentrates the flavors of the garlic, bringing out the sweetness beneath the surface. Open the jar, take a sniff and start imagining all the dishes it'll improve. The flavor is deep and savory but not overpowering. P-LIC 210 g jar $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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from lebanon

Pomegranate Molasses Syrup Great as an ingredient in an array of Middle Eastern dishes, it’s the sort of addition to sauces and stews that adds enormous depth of flavor but no one can ever identify. P-POM 14 oz bottle $7 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

not-sO-simple syrup

Rangpur Lime Syrup

This could be the Holy Grail of secret ingredients. Rangpur limes look more like mandarins than the little green citrus fruit we know, but their flavor is like a smoky lime. This syrup pours easily— like honey—and doesn’t leave sugar crystals as it dissolves in iced or hot drinks, making it excellent for cocktails. It’s become a stealth ingredient in my mojitos and margaritas. A rangpur lime syrup gin and tonic, anyone? Not into gin? Add it to yogurt. Drizzle over grilled fish. Drop a splash in a vinaigrette. I could keep going. This one is fun and easy. From Robert Lambert, Santa Barbara’s resident citrus genius. P-LIM 5 oz bottle $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

southern syrup

from israel Date Syrup

Sorghum Molasses

The texture is thick, like molten caramel sauce. The flavor is complex, like roasted dates bathed in maple—sweet at first, then caramel, then the fruit flavor rises, ending with a slight, welcome bitterness. The finish goes on and on, a welcome and pleasing ending that fades into a toasty, leathery, smoky scent. Organic. P-DAS 12.3 oz $18

Sweet, with notes of burnt sugar and caramel and a magnetic depth of flavor. A great topping for biscuits or bread, or an addition to bitter roasted vegetables, like brussel sprouts. P-SGM 1 lb $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Wild Ones from Piedmont

Sour Ones from Michigan

Maraschino from Veneto

Prepared in small batches so they don’t bruise, packed with syrup in a resealable glass jar. Great for topping ice cream or rich, creamy cheese. A staff favorite for over a decade. P-AGR-CHE 750 g jar $40

Whole, pitted Michigan sour cherries, the preserved in a cherry syrup which adds a sweet balance to the naturally tart fruit. A great addition to many dishes, from breakfast to late night snacks. P-CRR 14 oz jar $14

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These are the original Maraschino cocktail cherries. Instead of glowing red, these cherries are deep purple and burgundy, suspended in thick cherry syrup. Use them whenever your cocktail book calls for a cherry garnish. P-INO 360 g, 50 cherries $22 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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the preSident Of peanut buTter

Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter

The peanut butter that's become a legend. We found this one almost right next door in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jeff Koeze sources incredible Virginia peanuts, brings them up north in 2,000 pound 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 2 or more $7 each

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P-CRU 17 oz jar crunchy 2 or more $7 each

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"Totally irresistible." Florence Fabricant, New York Times

Peanut Butter for Parents

Hazelnut & Chocolate Spread This stuff is to Nutella® what a dark chocolate Valrhona bar is to Hershey’s®. Italian Piemontese hazelnuts are ground fine then mixed into a smooth chocolate cream with a texture somewhere between mousse and fudge. Spread some on Chocolate Sourdough Bread toast for breakfast or top off ice cream with a spoonful. Amazing. P-IHZ 350 g jar $23 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

SOuth America's swEet senSatioN

Dulce de Leche

Dulce de Leche is a milky cooked caramel that’s used in Argentina the way we use peanut butter or preserves. Rich and creamy, you can spread it on toast or between cake layers. Spoon a little on to some ice cream or use it in a brownie like we do in our Buenos Aires Brownies. This particular dulce de leche is made from the milk of a single farm’s herd, so the quality of the major raw material is managed from start to finish. It's highly regarded in Argentina, too. (If you're lucky enough to stay at the Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, it'll be the only brand they offer in your snack bar.) The flavor is superb. Everyone I’ve offered a taste to loves it, as will the lucky soul on your gift list. P-DDL 454 g jar $14 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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SPREAD

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Smoothly ground hazelnuts mixed with almonds and chocolate. The ultra nutty flavor is intense and flawless. What to squeeze it on? What not to squeeze it on! P-ZLP 8.8 oz $24

If Miuccia Prada decided to make a version of peanut butter for her fall collection, it might turn out a like this. Beautiful, stylish, incredibly precious, coveted, not made of peanuts at all. P-PCH 200 g $24

Imagine taking Northern Italy’s famous hazelnut nougat and making it the texture of melted ice cream. You’d have crema di torrone. And boy, would you be in business. P-CTO 100 g $12

Hazelnut Chocolate

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Pistachio Butter

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Torrone Cream

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Glorious Italian gum drops Fruit Jellies from Northern Italy

These Italian fruit jellies are a massage for your weary taste buds. They come in six flavors: amarena (sour cherry), limone (lemon), cedro (citron), lampone (raspberry), fragola (strawberry) and arancia (orange). The berry flavors taste like ripe fruits that have just been put in the jam jar. The citrus flavors remind me of warm, sugared, candied peels. And the sour cherry is my favorite. Texturally, the candies are a cross between a pâte de fruit and a gumdrop, giving you something to chew on. P-JEL 18-20 piece box $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

figs & chocolate

Chocolate Dipped Figs from Spain These once unheard of figs have become so popular we often have trouble keeping them in stock. 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. Individually wrapped in a sharp looking box. P-RAB 16 chocolate figs $25 P-RAB-9 9 chocolate figs $18 P-RAB-3 3 chocolate figs $7 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 pre-packed mix, but it does. So thick, so chocolate-y, 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

paris via ChIcago

Vosges Hot Cocoa Thick, creamy, voluptuous, it tastes like sitting on the left bank with a pocket full of money and a full day ahead of you. P-VOS-PAR 8 oz, about 5 servings $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

From Oaxaca

Traditional Mexican Chocolate This Oaxacan chocolate is to Mexico what Valrhona is to France–carefully produced, distinct, a standard against which you can judge all others in its class. The texture is coarse, like the Sicilian chocolate we offer, with little sugar crystals exploding in your mouth and a dark, subtle, cinnamon and smoke flavor. Although it comes as a solid chunk and you can eat it that way, I think it’s best enjoyed made into Mexican hot chocolate. In a small sauce pan, bring either water or milk to a near boil. Add one piece of chocolate per eight ounces of liquid. Stir the mixture till the chocolate is completely dissolved and serve. Makes 10 servings. P-OAX 1 lb bag $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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sweEt and SAVORY caramels

Zingerman's Caramel Collection from Vosges in Chicago Zingerman’s ingredients mixed with Vosges’ outstanding caramels. We designed this collection together and it's exclusive to Zingerman's. Three kinds of savory caramels: Applewood Smoked Bacon, Sun Dried Sicilian Tomatoes with Spanish Paprika and Parmigiano-Reggiano with Tellicherry Pepper. Three kinds of sweet: Campari, Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter and Anise Myrtle. Six flavors, three caramels each, eighteen caramels in all. You won’t find them anywhere else. They make a coveted gift. P-YUM 18 pieces $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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 five years, in going from a home kitchen operation to an awardwinning 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 $33 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

corny chocolate

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Chocolate Covered Popcorn Toffee

A tin holds a board game’s worth of scrabble-sized pieces of toffee, studded with popcorn, covered in chocolate. The flavor is a little salty, a little corny (in a good way), touched with butterscotch and caramel. The texture is crisp, the toffee pops when you bite it and the tiny corn kernels add to the texture. In a world where chocolatiers are trying any gimmick they can, this is one new combination that really works. Made by the clever chocolate firm, Poco Dolce, in San Francisco. P-PCR 8 oz tin $23 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Zzang!® Candy Bar Handmade, old fashioned, peanut-filled candy bars, made by our own Charlie at his fantastic Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory. P-ZZG 2.5 oz bar $6 4 or more $5 each

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