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Dom Perignon Champagne Teams with Architect Richard Meier

Architect Richard Meier has designed a sleek limited edition carrying case holding six bottles of 1995 vintage Dom Perignon. Priced at $2000 and with only 250 of these cases available, the beautiful package makes for an ultimate gift for the art and champagne lover.

December 24, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, All Things Wine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Christmas Holiday Drink Recipes

Epicurious.com offers their favorite selections of holiday drinks from their recipe archives. Mix, drink, enjoy, and be safe.

More holiday drink ideas can be found at whattodrink.com.

RECOMMENDED READING - Raising The Bar: Better Drinks, Better Entertaining from New York's Gotham Bar and Grill and Gramercy Tavern manager Nick Mautone

December 20, 2003 in Christmas, Holidays | Permalink | Comments (0)

Christmas Entertaining Ideas from Gourmet Magazine

Looking for ideas for your Christmas holiday entertaining? Gourmet Magazine's website epicurious.com offers a collection of their best recipes, drinks, and how-tos for your Christmas party and more.

Bon Appetit also offers their holiday ideas from holiday dinners to desserts.

December 12, 2003 in Christmas, Cooking, Holidays | Permalink | Comments (0)

Great Read: True to Our Roots by Fetzer Vineyard's Paul Dolan

CEO Paul Dolan has written a book talking about the principles that have guided him in his leadership of Fetzer Vineyard since 1992. This is an inspirational read revealing how personal principles and commitment led a successful winery to use the land and resources wisely while enhancing the lives of its employees, and the community and industry in which they work.

Available wherever books are sold and thru Amazon.com.

December 11, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, All Things Wine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Holiday Gift Certificates for Foodies

Gift certificates are a favorite gift choice for many, and online gift certificates add extra value because one gift certificate can be used across a wide selection of online stores. Certificates from GiveAnything.com are good at over 500 online stores. For foodie and gourmet fans, GiveAnything certificates are good online at stores including Chef Revival, Restaurant.com, Wine.com, SimplySeafood.com, Flying Noodle, New York Flavors, and others.

See all the online stores at GiveAnything.com

December 10, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Gourmet Christmas Gift Ideas from Red Envelope

One of our favorite online stores, Red Envelope, has a great selection of sweets, wine, and food gift baskets. Check out their special Gourmet section to find that special gift for the foodie in your life.

December 9, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Special Delivery | Permalink | Comments (0)

Holiday Wine Gift Baskets

Holiday wine gift baskets are suitable for gift giving to many different people on your gift list. There are a wide variety of wine and gourmet gift baskets that are appropriate for business associates and corporate gifts, thank you baskets, and the wine or food lover in your family.

Wine gift baskets are available online at:
Wine.com | Wine Enthusiast | iGourmet | Wine Messenger

December 7, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, All Things Wine | Permalink | Comments (2)

Holiday Gift Guide: Pocket Wine Guide for Your Palm Pilot

Wine Enthusiast's Guide for your Palm Pilot turns your handheld into an up-to-date wine guide. Get wine ratings by region and year with reviews to help you conveniently select the ideal wine for your occasion.

For more details, visit Wine Enthusiast Wine Guide - 2003 Edition

December 6, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, All Things Wine | Permalink | Comments (0)

Gourmet Gift: Ferran Adria's elBulli Cookbook

The English translation of Ferran Adria's cookbook, El Bulli 1998-2002, has arrived. Read a step-by-step account of twenty years of kitchen work covering El Bulli Restaurant's development, and the keys to Adria's creations. Photographs of every dish, taken by Francesc Guillamet, are found within the 500 pages of this hefty cookbook. A CD-ROM of all recipes is included with each book.

Read Wine Spectator's review of El Bulli here.

Available now from Amazon.

Special order price $210 from Jessica's Biscuit.  Order here.

December 3, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chef Books | Permalink | Comments (0)

Foodie Gift Idea: Chocolate Candies with a Spicy Kick

Cowgirl Chocolates features handmade chocolates with a unique spicy kick. These award winning chocolates are the creation of founder Marilyn Lysohir, and come in a selection of truffles and truffle bars with flavors like Spicy Lime Tequila, Spicy Peanut Butter, Spicy Mild Chocolate Mint, and Spicy Orange Espresso. Packed in unique gift bags, boxes, tins, and baskets, this could make an ideal gift choice for the adventurous chocolate lover.

December 2, 2003 in A Food & Wine Gift Guide, Chocolate | Permalink | Comments (1)

Easier Grating with Microplane Graters

From everyday cooking to holiday baking, we find the razor edges of our Microplane graters to make the difference in adding lemon rind or parmesan cheese to our recipes.

Full line of Microplanes available at Sur La Table.

December 1, 2003 in Kitchen & Cooking Tips, Kitchen Essentials | Permalink | Comments (0)