Food And Wine Gift Guide | Unique Gift Ideas For Food Lovers

Food And Wine Gift Guide | Unique Gift Ideas For Food Lovers

During my travels, I love to discover local cuisine, food trends, and products native to the areas I’m visiting. Instead of collecting souvenirs, I love to bring home sweets, spices, honey, or special marinades & BBQ sauce from places I’ve visited. As a true foodie,  I’m always seeking new foods and wine to experience. I’ve composed this food and wine gift guide as the perfect vessel to create memories through culinary adventures. My food and wine gift guide contains unique items  any foodie would love to receive.

Paleo Bakehouse –

Do you have an insatiable sweet tooth? Would you fancy a subscription box delivering paleo desserts made with fresh and simple ingredients to your door each month? These handcrafted paleo sweets are dairy free, gluten free, grain free, refined sugar free, and non-gmo. There really is no guilt when indulging in paleo treats because they are created with simple, wholesome ingredients. Each Paleo Bakehouse box features 12 goodies. You’ll receive 4 varieties per box of each sweet treat. My box included three chocolate chip cookies, three fudge cookies, three double chocolate donuts, and three truffle ball bites! Each box contains a note card detailing the ingredients in each item. Super informative for those with food allergies or sensitivities. My kids absolutely loved these baked goods. I packed these sweet treats in my teen daughter’s lunch, and by mid-day I received a text asking where the cookies came from!

In addition to the monthly subscription box, Paleo Bakehouse also offers The Perfect Breakfast Box, Best Sellers Box, and Favorite Donuts Bundle.

Grill Masters Club

Join  The Grill Masters Club to take your BBQ experience to another level. Each month you receive a box filled with the best BBQ products to your door each month. Each box contains BBQ Sauce, BBQ Rub, Chef’s Choice, and mystery items! In the box you will also find a cooking tip, a discount code, along with a delicious recipe to use the products with. Boxes ship throughout the USA and Canada.

Graham’s 20 Year Old Tawny Port

Finish off an elegant meal with port made from the highest quality Douro Valley grapes. 20 years of cask aging gives this port wine a rich caramel flavor and a beautiful golden amber color. Graham’s 20 Year Old Tawny Port is a thoughtful hostess gift when attending a dinner party or perfect for sipping a glass after a long day. Delightful when paired with creme brûlée, sea-salted caramels or  chocolate covered strawberries. 

Don Q’s Double Aged Vermouth Cask Finish Rum (80 Proof/40% ABV)
Destilería Serrallés, based in Ponce, Puerto Rico is one of the oldest family-owned businesses producing Puerto Rico’s #1 selling rum. Their rum making tradition spans 6 generations and over 153 years. To say they’ve honed their craft would be an understatement! The distillery in Ponce, Puerto Rico creates a unique flavor profile in Don Q’s Double Aged Vermouth Cask Finish Rum because of the double aging process. Just one sip provides unique flavorful hints of cherry and a sweet but subtle chocolatey aroma.

 BOS Drinkware 
A practical and innovative alternative to ice cubes, keep your whiskey or wine cold with BOS Drinkware “Balls of Steel.” These reusable steel balls keep your libation of choice chilled to perfection, enhance your drinks flavor, and solves the dilemma of a watered down drink! For the wine lovers, BOS Drinkware offers Napa Wine Chillers.

Olitalia’s Drink Vinegar
Olitalia’s Drink Vinegar is a balsamic-based apple cider drinkable vinegar. Get all the benefits of apple cider vinegar with mother plus the benefits of balsamic vinegar all in one! This refreshing drink is naturally flavored with no added sugar. Each sip improves metabolism, digestion, heart and muscle health. This drink really pack a punch as an excellent source of Potassium, Calcium, Vitamin B2 and B3! Drink Vinegar is specifically designed to be diluted with water. Drink Vinegar is available in Cherry, Blueberry and Pomegranate.

 Meli’s Monster Cookies.
Want the taste and texture of homemade cookies with the convince of a prepackaged product you can take on the go? Did I mention this delicious sweet is also the best tasting gluten-free cookie on the market? Introducing Meli’s Monster Cookies! Meli’s Monster Cookies are available in pre-baked or dry mix and contain no flour, wheat, or gluten. Meli’s Monster Cookies are available in these fine flavors:

• • Original: Gluten free rolled oats, all natural crunchy peanut butter, all natural chocolate chips, plain and peanut butter M&Ms
  • Cashewlicious: All natural crunchy cashew butter, gluten-free rolled oats, all natural dark chocolate chips, dried cherries
  • Choco-Lot: All natural organic chocolate chunks, gluten-free rolled oats, white chocolate chips, organic peanut butter

Supernatural
Do you need super clean baking ingredients for your pantry? Look no further than Supernatural plant-based food colors and sprinkles to jazz up your baking adventures. Decorate your baked goods with real colors from real plants for a real clean baking experience! Starfetti sprinkles, white sequin sprinkles, and plant based food colors you can feel good about consuming because they contain no artificial colors, allergens or gmos! Just vibrant colors to make your baking adventure beautiful!

KITCHEN CREATIVITY: Unlocking Culinary Genius—with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from the World’s Most Creative Chefs.
This amazing new book from by two-time James Beard Award winners author Karen Page and photographer Andrew Dornenburg contains secrets and strategies from more than 100 leading culinary minds—including José Andrés, Dan Barber, Rick Bayless, Daniel Boulud, Amanda Cohen, Kyle Connaughton, Curtis Duffy, Emily Luchetti, Eric Ripert, Marcus Samuelsson, and Joshua Skenes.  KITCHEN CREATIVITY provides a culinary manifest to inspire your adventures to expand your palate in the kitchen. Ideas in the book challenge you to think and approach ingredients like the world’s best chefs. This book is a wealth of knowledge…. even for the most seasoned foodie!

Recipes in KITCHEN CREATIVITY include:

• Deb Paquette, Etch (Nashville) – Andouille Bacon & Green Tomato Crudo
• Allen Susser, Burger Bar by Chef Allen (Miami) – Rum Glazed Pork Belly & Cuban Black Bean Stew