Zingerman's Valentine's Day Catalog 2017

ITALY'S SUAVE VERSION OF ICE CREAM

MADE BY ZINGERMAN'S

Gelato is to American ice cream what Gucci is to Levi’s. It takes every one of ice cream's details and elevates them. In Italy, most towns have at least a few gelaterie, tiny shops that sell nothing but gelato. They usually have at least a dozen flavors, from sexed up standards like super dark chocolate to sorbets and more. But before you pick your flavor, you’ve got to pick your gelateria. Here’s my tip: choose a shop with a long line—or, since this is Italy, a big, disorganized crowd. The locals know where to get the gelato with the most luscious texture and the biggest, boldest flavors. Because that’s the thing about gelato. When it’s really good the flavors are like nothing you can find in any other dessert.

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Years ago, the gelato makers at Zingerman’s Creamery traveled to Italy to learn how to make great gelato from the undisputed experts.

We pretty much do it exactly the same way today. First, we get the best milk we can find: it comes delivered directly from Calder Dairy, one of the last farmstead dairies in Michigan that’s just an hour south of Ann Arbor. Using the gelato-making equipment we brought over from Bologna, Italy, we churn the milk in small batches with super delicious ingredients like organic Demerara brown sugar, Madagascar Bourbon vanilla, Koeze peanut butter, and loads more. The result is gelato with creamy, rich texture with direct, intense flavors that’s guaranteed to knock your valentine's socks off.

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FIND YOUR GELATO Pick your favorite flavors and assemble your own custom assortment of gelati.

CHOCOLATES

CLASSICS

EXOTICS

Dark Chocolate

Madagascar Vanilla

Double Ginger

Chocolate & Hazelnut Gianduja

Mint Chocolate Chip

Coconut Macaroon

Chocolate Strawberry Balsamic

Cold Brew Coffee

Dulce de Leche Caramel

Chocolate Chile Heat

Michigan Maple Syrup Pecan

Peanut Butter

Rocky Ride Chocolate with Peanuts and Marshmallows

SORBETS (Dairy-free)

Turtle Chocolate with Pecans and Dulce de Leche Caramel

Michigan Raspberry Sorbet

Bittersweet Burnt Sugar

Cherry Chocolate Chip Sorbet

CHOOSE YOUR OWN VALENTINE GELATO ADVENTURE

Gelato Samplers

4 Flavors G-4GL 4 gelati $75 FREE SHIPPING

6 Flavors

G-6GL 6 gelati $115 FREE SHIPPING

6 Flavors + Service

G-6GL-KIT 6 gelati, cups, napkins, spoons $120 FREE SHIPPING

Party Kits

Gelato Sundae Classic Party Kit Your selection of six flavors of gelato comes with Butter Toasted Peanuts, Fruit Perfect Sour Cherries, Coop’s Salted Caramel Sauce, and plenty of cups, spoons, and napkins.

G-6GL-PTY 6 gelati + toppings $175 FREE SHIPPING

Gelato Sundae Chocolate Party Kit Your selection of six flavors comes with Coop’s Hot Fudge Sauce, Virginia Diner Peanuts, chocolate sprinkles from Guittard and plenty of cups, spoons, and napkins.

G-6GL-CHO 6 gelati + toppings $175 FREE SHIPPING

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Lover's Cuts

The candles are lit. The wine is poured. The music plays softly in the background. You’ve already tossed back the oysters, and the chocolate covered clementines (next page) are ready to go for dessert.

Here are a few ideas for a main course that will blow your Valentine away.

Ibérico de Bellota Secreto Pork from Spain

Bavette Steak from Carman Ranch

Dry-Aged Cowboy Cut Ribeye from Carman Ranch

The secreto is a coveted shoulder cut prized in Spain and Portugal. It’s like the pork version of a ribeye steak.

Ibérico hogs gobble up acorns (bellotas), giving the meat an incredibly rich, beefy flavor. While 99% of the Ibérico de bellota pork on the market is cured, these secreto steaks are fresh and marbled with the bellotafed fat that melts in your mouth in a way that’s almost surreal. Exceptional.

M-SEC about 1¼ lbs $100

The bavette is a favorite among butchers for its huge flavor, but unknown to most of the rest of us—unless you're a lucky one who's enjoyed one over a glass of Cotes du Rhone at a bistro in Paris, where it's more common. It comes from next to the flank, so it’s great for grilling up rare like a flank steak or for tossing in a stir fry. Beefy, juicy, with slightly sweet flavor.

M-BAV-2 2 steaks, 10-12 oz each $65 M-BAV-4 4 steaks, 10-12 oz each $100

The cowboy cut has a couple inches of bone sticking out, giving you a handle to hold onto. The steaks are dry-aged for two weeks, creating huge flavor with a deep mineral tang. This is a big, beautiful steak, the most flavorful we offer. Like all our steaks, it's entirely grass-fed like a cow should be, but features the marbling of corn fed beef. Bone in, 2 inches thick, serves a small army of lovers.

M-RIB-2 2 steaks, 1½ lbs each $175 M-RIB-4 4 steaks, 1½ lbs each $320

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Bacon

Not to throw shade on traditional Valentine’s Day gifts, but if you want to stand out on the 14th you gotta think outside the box. Bacon valentines are not your normal fare, just like you.

Nueske’s Applewood Bacon: The Bacon Ideal There’s a reason this is our top seller. It is perfectly balanced between softly, pleasantly sweet and salty/smoky. To me this is the Platonic ideal of bacon, the model of bacon that we should immortalize with a statue in some prominent plaza. If I were to choose one bacon to eat every day, which pretty much sounds like heaven, this would be it. Nueske’s slices it thickly just for us and for your Valentine and they are going to like it that way, promise.

M-BAC 1 lb sliced thickly $17 M-SLAB 5-6 lbs whole unsliced slab $90

"The Rolls Royce of Rashers" R.W. Apple, New York Times

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Not Your Average

Box of Chocolates

Chocolate Dipped Figs Start with luscious, rich, and full-bodied figs with a gentle sweetness. Soak in a liqueur, fill with truffle cream and cover in chocolate. Home run.

P-RAB-9 9 piece box $18 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Clementines in Chocolate Spectacular Calabrian oranges, soaked in simple syrup for three weeks, cut in quarters, smothered in dark chocolate. Each piece is the size of a large chocolate truffle.

Guaranteed to weaken their knees.

P-CIC 12 piece box $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Meats & Sweets They’ve got a huge sweet tooth and an even bigger meat tooth.

Why not treat both? Elevate your sweet and savory game with some of our favorite lip-smacking sweet treats and mouth-watering meats.

The Lip Smacker Two grass-fed Bavette steaks, a pound of Applewood Smoked Bacon, a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough, and a Bacon Chocolate Pig. G-MSW-1 lip smacker $120 FREE SHIPPING

The Mouth Waterer Two heritagebreed Pork Chops, a pound of Broadbent’s Breakfast Sausage, a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, Chocolate Peanut Brittle and Bequet Sea Salt Caramels.

G-MSW-2 mouth waterer $100 FREE SHIPPING

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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.

Four Styles Corned Beef Reuben G-SHE serves 8 $200 G-SHE-2 serves 3-4 $150 Pastrami Brooklyn Reuben G-BIN serves 8 $200 G-BIN-2 serves 3-4 $150 Turkey Georgia Reuben G-GEO serves 8 $200 G-GEO-2 serves 3-4 $150 Jon & Amy’s Corned Beef & Pastrami Double Dip G-JJA serves 8 $200 FREE SHIPPING

Included Jewish Rye Bread (Pumpernickel in Brooklyn Reuben), Meat Fixins, Sauerkraut, Emmentaler Swiss, Redskin Potato Salad, Coleslaw, Russian Dressing, Garlicky Pickles, Magic & Black Magic Brownie Bites, Professional Deli Instructions

send them their own deli counter Zingerman’s Big Box of Meat

Many of us have a deep love for real deli fare and let me tell you, it’s a great unexpected idea for a Valentine gift. This is a collection of my favorites from our deli case. Our Zingerman's shopping bag includes a pound each of Pastrami, our Classic Black Angus Lean Corned Beef, Broadbent Sausage, Usinger’s Liverwurst, Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon, plus La Quercia’s Borsellino Salami and Prosciutto Americano.

Around six pounds of cured cow and hog, rounded out with a loaf of Bacon Peppered Farm Bread. Requires a strong will not to overdo it. In case of excess, we’ll throw in some Alka Seltzer®. Everything freezes splendidly.

G-BBM big box of meat $200 FREE SHIPPING

Six ways to love pork even more

Praise the Lard Gift Box

It’ll take a special kind of faith for the recipient to make it through this gift box, tallying up at over two and a half pounds of pork, plus bread and chocolate. When done, they will surely testify. Broadbent’s Kentucky Smoked Sausage, ‘Nduja Pork Spread, Pork Rillettes, Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon, Borsellino Salami and Zingerman’s Peppered Bacon Farm Bread. To round things out, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate Bar. Gift packaged in a Zingerman’s shopping bag.

G-PTL praise the lard gift box $150 FREE SHIPPING

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Build it

Mix & Match Custom Pastry Sampler Gift Box

Choose Your Own Pastry Sampler Gift Boxes Create your own assortment of Zingerman’s pastries. Choose from big brownies, stellar cookies, creamy scones and other luscious treats. Choose your mix, give us a ring, or visit zingermans.com where you can customize your box online. Your personal selection is hand packed to order in our fun cartoon gift box.

Brownies

Cookies

Rare Treats

Scones

Magic Brownie

Oatmeal Raisin

Currant

Vanilla Cosmic Cake

Classic with toasted walnuts.

Maple syrup, organic oats and red flame raisins.

With dried currants.

Chocolate covered cake sandwiching fresh vanilla buttercream.

Black Magic

Ginger Jump-Up

Classic minus the nuts.

Muscavado brown sugar and caramelized ginger.

Buenos Aires Brownie sandwiching dulce de leche caramel.

Pecan Blondie No chocolate with pecan praline, topped with sea salt.

Townie Gluten Free with amaranth and quinoa, not wheat. * Not made in a gluten free facility.

$35

Lemon With candied lemon zest.

Ginger Spicy, crystallized ginger.

Chocolate Chunk Big pieces of chocolate and toasted walnuts.

Triple Chocolate Chunks of milk chocolate, melted dark chocolate and cocoa.

Sky’s the Lemon With fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and candied lemon.

6 piece mix G-6PP

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Country Organic oats, pecans, red flame raisins and cinnamon.

Cheddar Herb Vermont cheddar and fresh rosemary.

Bacon Cheddar Applewood smoked bacon and Vermont cheddar.

Raspberry Cosmic Cake Chocolate covered cake sandwiching fresh raspberry buttercream.

Bostock Buttery brioche with orange syrup, topped with almond frangipane.

Raspberry Patti Pocket Buttery, flaky pie dough filled with raspberry preserves.

$90

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Catalog design rules say you should put your best-sellers up front, on the first few pages. And here they are, buried deep inside. That won’t stop them. Our coffeecakes have such a magnetic attraction I sometimes think I could write about them in invisible ink and they’d still be our top sellers. They’re the classic Zingerman’s gift, guaranteed to please any palate. Pick your flavor, pick your size, pick your packaging and we’ll ship them free anywhere in the lower 48.

coffeecakes SHIP FREE WOODEN CHEESE CRATE

CARTOON BOX Sturdy, re-usable, way fun.

Illustrated by our one-and-only Ian Nagy.

Made with recycled cardboard.

Crafted in Wisconsin by the country’s last cheese crate maker. The Zingerman’s logo is silk screened on the lid.

the clasSics

Our standbys, including the all-time best selling gift in our entire catalog, the sourcream coffeecake.

–LARGE FRESSER–

–SMALL NOSHER–

Serves 10-12 Cartoon box $55 Wooden crate $65

Serves 5-7 Cartoon box $40 Wooden crate $45

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SOURCREAM

GINGERBREAD

WILD BLUEBERRY

HOT COCOA

LEMON POPPY SEED

NEW DELI

The legend. Toasted walnuts, thick streams of Indonesian cinnamon, creamy texture, huge flavor.

A-SCC-L large in box $55 G-SCC-L large in crate $65 A-SCC-S small in box $40 G-SCC-S small in crate $45

With dark cocoa, a touch of espresso and chunks of dark chocolate that go molten if you heat it.

A-COA-L large in box $55 G-COA-L large in crate $65 A-COA-S small in box $40 G-COA-S small in crate $45

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Crystallized ginger, dark molasses, coffee, fresh orange juice and loads of winter spices.

A-GGC-L large in box $55 G-GGC-L large in crate $65 A-GGC-S small in box $40 G-GGC-S small in crate $45

Real lemon oil and a veritable passel of Dutch poppy seeds, plus loads of real butter and Madagascar vanilla.

A-LMC-L large in box $55 G-LMC-L large in crate $65 A-LMC-S small in box $40 G-LMC-S small in crate $45

Technically, it’s a buckle, but let’s not quibble over terms—it’s delicious. Topped with a butter-crumble crust.

A-BUC-L large in box $55 G-BUC-L large in crate $65 A-BUC-S small in box $40 G-BUC-S small in crate $45

Our new classic. Butter crumble topping with pistachio, clove, cardamom, coconut and more.

A-NDC-L large in box $55 G-NDC-L large in crate $65 A-NDC-S small in box $40 G-NDC-S small in crate $45

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unparAlLelEd pie Toasted Pecan Pie

Pecan pie is the one of Southern cooking’s best diplomats. It’s hard to find folks who won’t dig into a slice placed in front of them. That said, there are good pecan pies and there are great ones. The better versions take the time and expense to tend the details. Like real butter in the crust, each pie rolled and pressed out by hand. And great brown sugar—ours is organic and natural, from Mauritius—for the filling. And of course pecans: toasted pecans. Toasted before they’re baked because the flavor amplifies by an order of magnitude when you crisp them up a bit. And loads of them. Our bakers stuff in so many pecans that there’s barely enough room to fit them in, let alone any of the caramelly brown-sugar custard.

Zingerman’s pecan pie explodes with flavor, a warm balanced flavor that’s never too sweet, but is unparalleled, unforgettable.

G-PEC gift boxed in wooden crate $60 A-PEC gift boxed in cartoon box $50 FREE SHIPPING

the deluxers Innovative coffeecakes, made with a slightly more adventurous set of ingredients.

–SMALLNOSHER– NOSHER– –SMALL

Serves 5-7 Cartoon box $45 Wooden crate $50

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custom triple cake temptation Choose any three of our classic nosher cakes at left (not deluxers), we’ll nestle them in a large wooden cheese crate.

G-3CK 3 nosher cakes,

wood crate $100

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Made with toasted almonds, freshly grated lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon’s worth per cake—and lots of excellent extra virgin olive oil. We hand pack each super-moist cake in our cartoon box or handsome wooden crate.

A-OOC-S small in box $45 G-OOC-S small in crate $50

APPLE BACON Chunks of apples and pieces of Nueske’s amazing Applewood Smoked Bacon are mixed with topnotch ingredients like Indonesian cinnamon and real sour cream from Guernsey Farm in Northville, Michigan.

A-BCF-S small in box $45 G-BCF-S small in crate $50

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ALMOND A smooth, all-natural almond paste gives this cake a captivating aroma. It reminds me of some of the great European desserts of the Mediterranean, especially from Portugal and Sicily, but with a moist, dense, all-American texture. With a thin, buttery crust and a bright, nutty flavor that feels like you're spending the afternoon by the sea.

A-ALM-S small in box $45 G-ALM-S small in crate $50

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Classic Pantry Staples Unimproved since 1925

Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter

PB & J is still the quintessential sandwich for 9 out of 10 kids across this country, 8 out of 10 adults—and 10 out of 10 lazy bachelors. Koeze’s Cream Nut Peanut Butter is made the same way it has been since 1925, from roasted Virginia peanuts and sea salt, no sugar added. Natural, intense, rich, smooth, Koeze’s has mouthwatering flavor and sets the standard for great peanut butter.

P-BUT 17 oz jar smooth $9.50 P-CRU 16.5 oz jar crunchy $9.50

4 or more of either $7 each

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tuna staple revolution Ortiz Bonito Tuna from Spain This tuna from the fourth-generation family firm Ortiz is one of the jewels in Spain's culinary crown and will turn your everyday tuna experience into something exceptional. Ortiz's fish are all line caught—not netted—hand filleted at sea and quickly tinned in good olive oil. The olive oil adds flavor and makes the texture silky over time, unlike water, which tends to leach flavors from the fish.

P-ORT 112 g tin $8

4 or more $6.50 each

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stone ground mustard staple Raye’s Yellow Down East Schooner Mustard

J. W. Raye’s fourth-generation operation in Eastport, Maine grinds mustard with eight one-ton quartz grindstones in a century-old mill.

As the mustard mash moves from stone to stone it gets creamier without any addition of heat, which would drive off the aromatics and lessen the flavor. It’s aged about six weeks to balance and deepen its flavor even more. The house mustard at Zingerman’s Delicatessen and the house staple mustard for many of our regulars.

P-RAY 9 oz jar $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The foods we all stock in our pantries all the time in versions that are roughly 17 times more flavorful than average.

clasSic pasta

Rustichella Pastas

Gianluigi Peduzzi’s Rustichella pasta, from Italy’s Abruzzo region, has long been a staple in my home. It’s so flavorful I go back and cook it time after time to make sure I didn’t just dream it. Hard durum semolina is extruded through bronze dies so it has a scruffy, rough surface, perfect for holding sauce. It’s dried at low temperatures for three to four days, depending on the shape, which gives it a dense, chewy texture. Rustichella takes a quick weeknight pasta dinner from ordinary to extraordinary.

P-RUS-SPA 500 g spaghetti $9 P-RUS-BUC 500 g bucatini $9 P-RUS-FET 500 g fettuccine $9 P-RUS-PEN 500 g penne $9

2 or more of any, $7 each

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the best pasta sauce I know

Il Mongetto Tomato Sauce

For years Il Mongetto has been the top contender for my favorite bottled pasta sauce. They have a clean, fresh flavor that I never tire of.

Conjured up by the serenely insightful Santopietro family in the shadows of the Italian Alps, their sauces are filled with tomatoes, shallots, celery, carrots, olive oil from Umbrian maker Alfredo Mancianti and salt.

Il Mongetto sauces have complex, compelling flavors that other sauces only aspire to. Keep some around for that night you don’t want to cook. Pasta with Il Mongetto sauce is the best fast food I know. More flavors at zingermans.com.

P-ILL-PLA 9.8 oz jar $12

2 or more jars $10 each

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The alpha and omega of red pepPer

Marash Red Pepper Flakes SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE $10.99 flat rate per address. Combine with other flat rate items and the price is the same.

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Turkish Marash 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. My kitchen hasn’t been without a jar for the past fifteen years.

P-MAR 49 g jar $14 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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New Classic Pantry Staples Peanut butter for parents Hazelnut & Chocolate Spread

This is like Nutella for adults. Well, maybe you already enjoy Nutella as an adult (it’s good), but this is to Nutella what a dark chocolate Valrhona bar is to Hershey’s. The more intense, less sweet, more flavorful spread you’ll want to keep for yourself. Italian Piedmontese hazelnuts are ground fine then mixed into a smooth chocolate cream that’s known in Italy as gianduja.

The texture is somewhere between mousse and fudge. It’s a staple breakfast spread on toast for breakfast for many. Others top off ice cream with a spoonful. Either way, it’s amazing.

P-IHZ 320 g jar $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

yOur house sardine

Zingerman’s Portuguese Sardines You mean you don’t already have a house sardine? I’m just kidding.

Most tinned sardines are so bad there’s no reason to let them in the door. They don’t come close to the flavor of true pilchards like these. Open a tin, and you’ll find four or five fine silver sardines nestled inside. I like to serve them simply, laid on a slice of toasted farm bread and dressed with great olive oil.

Add a pinch of salt, a twist of black pepper, a squeeze of lemon and eat ‘em up. Comes in a box designed by Zingerman’s artist Ryan Stiner.

P-SAR 125 g tin $7

4 or more $5.50 each

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Way more tinned fish online at zingermans.com

Korean pantry staple Mother-in-Law Chile Pastes

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If you’ve ordered bibimbop at a Korean restaurant, Gochu Jang is the red fermented chile paste served on the side that you mix into your bowl. It’s a savory and spicy spread beefed up with big bass notes of umami. You’ll find Gochu Jang in every pantry in Korea and there is every reason it should be in American pantries too since it’s amazing in everything: sauces, marinades, dips, barbeques, condiments. Three different flavors: Original (complex heat), Sesame (rich and creamy), Garlic (awesome with meats).

P-MIL-ORI 10 oz jar original $18 P-MIL-SES 9 oz jar sesame $15 P-MIL-GAR 9 oz jar garlic $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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You might not have it in your pantry yet. But when you try it you’re never going to want to be without it again.

The sun dried staple of North Africa Couscous from Tunisia

It takes about ten days to make a batch of this sun dried cous cous, but it only takes ten minutes to cook. I always have a jar or two on hand in my pantry for nights when I want a really flavorful, really quick, really easy meal—these days I make it more than pasta. Serve plain, with tomato sauce, with grilled vegetables, with fish, or cooled in a salad.

P-HRL 500 g jar $12

2 or more, $10 each

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let’s bring back sun dried tomatoes Sun Dried Sicilian Tomatoes

They were huge in the 80s, fading in the 90s and I want to bring them back—but the good ones, not the leathery flavorless ones you remember. These are by far the best and the sweetest semi-dried tomatoes I’ve ever tried. Little known in the United States, this super-sweet variety of tomato is grown only in Sicily. The ripe tomatoes are hand picked, dried in the sun for three full days—not in ovens, as most commercial versions are—then packed with fresh basil in a bit of vinegar and extravirgin olive oil. Have some on hand for special entertaining (they make a nice addition to a cheese plate) or everyday eating (especially in a fresh pasta sauce). When you’re done, save the oil and vinegar they’re packed in for a superior Sicilian marinade.

P-PAC 290 g jar $22 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

hot spread staple Harissa Pepper Spread

If you make sure you have a few hot sauces always at hand here is your new favorite. Harissa is a spread of dried chiles, garlic, tomatoes, caraway and coriander and extra-virgin olive oil.

Get busy in the kitchen mixing harissa with eggs, with potatoes, with couscous or whipped into a fresh vinaigrette for salads.

Goes great on grilled meats too. You can spread it on sandwiches (harissa and Ortiz tuna—p. 10—go great together).

P-MMH 185 g jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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there’s a Brand new banana

Classic, Chocolate and NEW: Pecan Praline

The diabolical pastry enablers at Zingerman’s Bakehouse have focused their dark magic on classic banana bread. Like our hugely popular sourcream coffeecake and magic brownies, banana bread instantly conjures up nostalgia for home baking. The thing is, this loaf tastes better than what mom used to make (no offense intended moms, it’s just hard to beat our Bakehouse). The classic has no nuts, with simple ingredients like cane sugar, real butter and fresh eggs, a touch of Madagascar vanilla and two ultra ripe bananas per loaf. Chocolate chunk banana bread is the same story, with the addition of huge chunks of chocolate.

And new to our line-up, pecan praline, topped with a layer of caramel-coated toasted pecans sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt. Wrapped in tissue, each loaf comes packed in its own colorfully illustrated box. Serves 5-7.

G-BNA classic banana bread, gift boxed $20 G-BNC chocolate chunk, gift boxed $20 G-BNP pecan praline, gift boxed $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Beyond thE maLl

Cinn-ful Cinnamon Roll Gift Box

Almost anyone can make a cinnamon roll smell good while it’s baking, even among the cell phone kiosks at the mall.

Unfortunately, most have little more than aroma to offer.

You won’t taste much beyond sugar and cinnamon. The real challenge is to fashion a cinnamon roll that tastes as good as it smells. These fit the bill. Warm them up, break one open and put your nose up close. You’ll smell sweet butter, Indonesian cinnamon, real vanilla. But the real treat is next. Take one bite. That’s all you’ll need to forget the litany of cinnamon roll disappointments life has dealt you. With serving instructions.

G-CIN ten roll tin in wooden crate $40 A-CIN ten roll tin in cartoon gift box $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

chocOlate vices

Chocolate Suspension

Some will call this a minor indulgence. Some won’t say anything, they'll just smile. Everyone with a weakness for chocolate, flour and butter will know what time it is. A nosher-sized Hot Cocoa Coffeecake accompanied by four brownies, two each of Walnut-Studded Magic and no-nut Black Magic.

G-SUS chocolate suspension gift box $50 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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the zero risk loaf We’ve been mailing bread for 25 years. But still, if shipping a loaf bread of bread a thousand miles sounds absolutely bonkers but you’re curious to see what the fuss is about rest assured you can try it without risk.

We guarantee you’ll love it—and if you don’t we’ll refund or re-ship, no questions asked.

Hot Out of the Oven New Bakery Box

Rustic Peasant Loaf Gift Box

The latest creations from Zingerman’s Bakehouse. The gift box includes Pane Nero Bread made with heirloom Tumminia wheat from Sicily, Chestnut Bread made with loads of Michigan chestnut flour, crowd-pleasing Pecan Praline Banana Bread, and a Bostock, a square of buttery brioche with orange syrup and an almond frangipane topping.

G-HOB gift box $60

This box is for all those classic bread lovers out there, the ones who turn up their noses at Cinnamon Raisin, the ones who fight for crust. 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 Roadhouse.

G-PEA peasant gift box $45

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Bread-fest Gift Box

Sweet Loaf o' Mine Gift Box

Toast ain’t just toast when it’s made from Zingerman’s Bakehouse bread. To that end, here’s two of our most popular breakfast breads (good any time of day, of course, even if they’re not toasted). This colorful, printed gift box selection includes a loaf each of Cinnamon Raisin and 8-Grain 3-Seed Bread, a couple of Ginger Scones to sweeten the deal and a small jar each of Italian Honey and Preserves.

G-FES bread-fest box $50

Three of our most pleasing sweet loaves: Cinnamon Raisin, Chocolate Sourdough and Craquelin. All packed into our fun, illustrated gift box. Each loaf works anytime, from breakfast to dessert.

G-SLM sweet loaf $55 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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Deli Deluxe Bread Box

Sweet & Spicy Bread Box

Our classic deli loaves. These are the breads we built our reputation on. Honor a bread fanatic by sending our cartooned gift box of Jewish Rye, Farm Bread, Better Than San Francisco Sourdough and Pecan Raisin.

G-SAM-A deli deluxe $50

For a different kind of bread fanatic. A cartooned gift box stuffed to bursting with a loaf of Chocolate Sourdough, Cinnamon Raisin, Chile Cheddar and Peppered Bacon Farm Bread.

G-SAM-B sweet & spicy $65

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roadhouse bread

The house bread at our restaurant, Zingerman’s Roadhouse, and a local favorite. It’s based on an early New England recipe, made by combining rye flour and cornmeal with wheat. Anyone from an 18th century New Englander to Laura Ingalls Wilder would recognize and enjoy it today (it’s referred to in Little House on the Prairie as Rye ‘n’ Injun bread). The same goes for almost anyone I hand a slice to today. It’s got great crust and a soft, chewy center that has a slight sweetness from dark molasses, making it a hit with kids. Excellent with cream cheese and smoked salmon.

B-ROA 1½ lb handmade loaf $9.50 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

paesano bread

If I had only one word to describe Paesano Bread, it’d be “utilitarian.” Yes, that’s not a very sexy depiction, but Paesano’s strongest quality is that it’s a multi-functional, pragmatic workhorse of a bread. The interior is thoroughly permeated with air-pockets. It’s those pockets that make Paesano so versatile.

They allow the bread to become infused with the flavors of whatever you serve it with. It’s perfect for sopping up leftover spaghetti sauce, for dunking in soup, or as a companion to cheeses or salami. Plus, Paesano is wonderful to eat just by itself—all the better to appreciate its soft, chewy texture.

B-PAE 1½ lb handmade loaf $9.50 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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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 three pound round is my favorite. Cut into quarters and freeze what you don’t eat.

B-FRM-RND 3 lb handmade

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french mouNtain

Hands down, this is my favorite bread and probably my favorite food period. It is my desert island food for sure. I love it for just eating, salami sandwiches, grilled cheese and breakfast toast with tons of butter and preserves. This bread is so good with a fried egg on it. The big loaf holds well on the counter all week till you can get another one. How could you not like a loaf designed to sit around and get better? I’m amazed that we sell it for less when it’s “day old” at the deli— we should charge more for it after a day! It has been the only bread in my stuffing for the last decade during Thanksgiving where it blends well to the sausage, celery and sage.

B-MON-A ¾ kilo handmade loaf $12 B-MON-B 2 kilo handmade “Z” loaf $26

Sourdough

The crisp, crackly crust, moist honeycombed interior and that trademark sour tang will tickle your tongue. We ship them to San Franciscans across the country—even to some living near the Golden Gate.

B-SDR 1½ lb round $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAYS

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cinNamon raisin

A cinnamon raisin bread with substance.

A chewy, solid loaf where the flavor of the dough supports the freelancing of the Red Flame raisins and the racy scent of Indonesian cinnamon. Sweetened and moistened with a hint of clover honey.

Makes sensational Sunday morning toast.

B-CIN 1½ lb handmade loaf $10 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

pecan raisin

pumpernickel raisin

This bread has been like a chain reaction— someone serves it for brunch, and the next week their guests are calling us and buying it for themselves. Calling it dense is an understatement: a half pound of big, juicy Red Flame raisins and toasted pecans are baked into every loaf. The New York Times says our Pecan Raisin Bread "redefines the category."

B-PEC 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16

This bread has a cult following around Ann Arbor. Our traditional pumpernickel bread (next page) stuffed with huge, juicy Red Flame raisins, finished off with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Dark and rich, with an old fashioned molasses sweetness.

B-RSN 1½ lb loaf $9.50 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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Many of our breads take a half a day or more to rise, which expands and deepens their flavor.

" I ate a loaf of the Zingerman's Pecan Raisin during the twentyfour hours before the Boston Marathon, and I ran a personal record (3:09). I owe it all to the pecan raisin!"

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chOcolate CHerRy

A chocolate lover's fantasy come true— the best Belgian and French chocolate and dozens of dried Michigan cherries.

A few minutes in the oven, the chocolate chunks begin melting, the aroma of cocoa fills the air. Spread it with just a hint of sweet butter or set a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a warm slice.

You'll be sitting in front of the most decadent dessert you've had in years.

B-CHO 1 ¼ lb handmade loaf $18

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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

The national bread of Belgium. It’s a buttery brioche rolled up with fresh orange zest and sugar cubes soaked in Grand Marnier®. The additions form a sweet swirl inside each slice like a cinnamon roll and their dark orange flavors seep into the surrounding dough.

Some of our crew call it “coffeecake bread,” which gets to the spirit of the loaf, though its texture is much lighter.

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bacon farm bread

parmesan pepPer bread

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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 $15

My Italian friends would probably think this bread is heresy, but that’s their loss.

It’s a natural for me because I love bread, parmesan and good black pepper. There’s a quarter pound of parmesan in every loaf, along with a load of cracked black peppercorns. Leaves your mouth pleasantly aroused from the heat of the pepper and salivating from the savory sweetness of the parmesan. It’s fantastic when toasted.

B-PEP 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16

chile chedDar bread

I love this bread: savory, lusty, delicious and dangerously close to addictive. Softly spicy, fire-roasted New Mexico green chiles and Nor'easter Cabot cheddar blended into the Bakehouse’s tangy Farm Bread. Great on its own or as an accompaniment to dinner. It’s especially good if you give it about twenty minutes in a 325 degree oven before you break it open so it’s nice and steamy when you crack the crust.

B-CHI 1¼ lb handmade loaf $15 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

When we make a sandwich with our rye, we warm it for 15 minutes at 375°F then slice it on an angle for bigger slices with crispy crust & a tender crumb.

Traditional Jewish rye bread is still an endangered American species. Twenty-four years after we started baking them in Ann Arbor, you'll still be hard pressed to find a loaf like them anywhere in the country. Believe it or not, most “rye bread” sold in America contains very little rye flour. These are different. These are breads like my grandparents ate in Eastern Europe: plenty of rye flour, a natural sour rye starter (not the usual canned shortcut) and lots of time to let the dough develop. They’re the breads I reach for to make a sandwich or to eat with cool butter and fresh oysters. A perfect pairing with corned beef.

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Pumpernickel B-PUM 1½ lb $9.50

Caraway Rye B-CAR 1½ lb $9.50

Onion Rye B-ONI 1½ lb $9.50

Chernushka Seed Rye B-CHR 1½ lb $9.50

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Chestnut Bread

Pane Nero

Made with plenty of Michigan chestnut flour, this naturally leavened loaf has a rich tan crust and a nearly purple colored crumb.

The flavor is full, nutty, sweet, rich and very satisfying.

B-CNT 1 ½ lb loaf $18

Made with heirloom Tumminia wheat, an ancient grain from Sicily that’s renowned for its complex, sweet flavor. The bread is dark brown with a dense, compact crumb, topped with sesame seeds and sea salt. A hearty, flavorful loaf.

B-NER 1¼ lb handmade loaf $12

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Vollkornbrot

8-Grain 3-Seed Bread

Dinkelbrot

Very traditional, very dense and chewy German bread with a very loyal following in Ann Arbor and around America. Made from rye meal, rye flour, sunflower seeds, sea salt, yeast and rye sour, the Vollkornbrot is chewy, malty and really delicious. Wheat free.

B-VOL 2 lb handmade loaf $8.50

I love our 8 Grain 3 Seed Bread.... Why? Although there are so many grains and seeds, it still seems like a sinful treat because the honey sweetens it. When I eat it, I feel like I’ve made a healthy choice. The crust is hearty, the interior is still soft and chewy especially when you pop it in the toaster. My favorite way to enjoy it is toasted and topped with a little cream cheese and some strawberry preserves. I also like to top with Koeze peanut butter. Sometimes I go wild and melt cheese on top!

B-8GR 1¼ lb handmade loaf $10

One hundred percent spelt grain loaf made with loads of sunflower seeds. Dense, moist, delicious, different from most of the breads we bake whose origins tend to be French and Italian. Excellent for sandwiches. I enjoy devouring loaves armed only with good butter and sometimes a toaster.

B-DNK 1½ lb handmade loaf $12

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Michigan Maple Cutting Board This cutting board, shaped like Michigan’s lower peninsula, makes a great gift for a Michigander or those who wish they were (I'm looking at you, Indiana). The company that makes it has been in business since 1881. They are from Michigan.

The maple wood is from Michigan. It’s especially handy for serving Michigan cheese and cherries.

Apologies to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we don’t have a cutting board for you yet.

P-MIT 17 x 13 inches $90

scoTTish bread spread Whisky Heather Honey

We import a tiny amount of John Anderson’s Scottish heather honey, blended with twelve-year-old Glendronach Scotch whisky. If you’re looking for a crazy fun treat to spread on your bread, it’s one to consider.

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Fine Fishes

electric Eels from Portugal

It’s tough to get people to warm up to eels. Eels the animal, a sea snake of sorts, is not the most appetizing idea. But if you’re a fan of tinned seafood I urge you to try some. There’s a reason the Portuguse, Italians, and Spanish seafood lovers go gaga for them. The firm flesh is rich and utterly delicious. We have them two ways. The first is lightly smoked and tinned in olive oil.

Milder than mackerel or sardines, they have a texture that reminds me of salmon crossed with sea bass and a smoky flavor that I think of as the bacon of the sea. Next up is in escabeche, a vinegar sauce that was used to preserve fish before canning was invented. The escabeche gives a tangy, sweet-and-sour flavor to the eel. This is tinned fish that will take you to another time and place, in a good way. There’s nothing like it out there.

P-EEL 105 g tin, smoked $18 P-ESC 105 g tin, escabeche $12

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Portuguese Tinned Squid I love this squid because it’s unusual. People usually think of squid as being chewy or rubbery as a result of having had cheap calamari. This is the opposite of that: it’s soft, succulent. The flavor isn’t super fishy. It’s savory but subtle, and the whole tin is really balanced and basically perfect. The three or four squids, stuffed with their own tentacles so they look like little seafood sausages, come in a ragout of oil, tomatoes, peppers and spices. Even that oil is worth saving—I like to rip off chunks of bread to dip in it, after pulling out the little squids and eating them whole, straight from the can. Or sometimes I like to toss the whole tin into a big bowl of pasta.

P-SCA 110 g tin $10 4 or more $7.50 each SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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wild american smoked tuna

Alder Smoked Tuna

The fishermen for Island Trollers have been line-catching albacore tuna in the northern Pacific for nearly fifty years. The tuna is smoked over red alder then cooked in its own juices. This wood smoke gives the tuna a slight sweetness and brings out the depth and rich flavors of the fish instead of masking it.

This can stand up to a bit of mayo for a stellar tuna salad sandwich.

P-SMT 7½ oz tin $12

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toro in a tin Spanish Ventresca Tunas

Ventresca tuna is probably the richest, most sensual bit of fish you’ll ever take out of a tin. It’s made from the belly (toro in Japanese, ventresca in Spanish), which means it’s incredibly smooth, almost velvety in texture. The bonito—or albacore, as it’s commonly known in America—is silky and intense. Yellowfin tuna fish have flesh that’s fattier than bonito and the belly cut is correspondingly richer. These are tins for a special occasion—use one where the texture and taste can show off.

Serve alongside a couple of steamed potatoes with olives, anchovies and roasted peppers. Or rest some on a bed of greens, simply dressed with oil and lemon or on some crostini with a bit of oil and maybe a piquillo pepper.

It puts the idea of “just opening a can of tuna for lunch” into a whole new category of elegance. From the venerable Spanish firm, Ortiz, who catches all their tuna by line, not net.

P-TUN 110 g tin, bonito $20

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counter-intuitive luxury Salt Cod in Olive Oil

It seems a little odd that the seafood-loving residents of Spain and Portugal love salt cod so much. In fact, the closer to the water they live, the more salt cod they seem to eat. These people, who have access to the best fresh seafood in the world, on any given night you’ll find them cooking slabs of preserved salted fish. It stymied me until I married into a Portuguese family and started eating more salt cod.

Then I realized that salted cured fish has about as much in common with fresh fish as cured ham does with a fresh pork chop. They're two completely different things.

People who raise pigs like fresh pork and they like salted cured pork like ham. Why wouldn't the same be true for people who fish? The salt curing and cooking—which, here, happens as a slow confit in olive oil—creates a cod fillet that’s almost creamy.

It may seem counterintuitive but salt cod is one of the most luxurious fishes you can eat. That's the main reason Iberians spend hours—and I mean hours—soaking and cooking it. The salt cod in this jar, on the other hand, takes all of two seconds to prepare. Turn the lid, turn out the fish, feast.

P-COD 200 g jar $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

holy mackerel Atlantic Mackerel

From northern Portugal, these firm, perfect fillets of mackerel come plain in olive oil or in olive oil spiked with Piri Piri, the famous red pepper of Portugal. The taste is 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 $8 P-MPI 90 g tin, piri piri $8

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Maussane Olive Oil

Alziari Olive Oil

It's now been over two decades since I first fell in love with Alziari, the old shop in the historic center of Nice, on France’s Côte d’Azur. Their extra virgin olive oil is exceptional and typically Niçoise—light, flowery and elegant but still full of character and charisma. I could use the same phrase to describe the tin it comes in. It's such a beautiful package that it makes one of the best gifts from our catalog; it needs no wrapping.

O-ALZ 1 liter tin $50 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Peranzana Olive Oil The olive oil with Zingerman’s label is created 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, it's hugely flavorful. The latest vintage has pleasing aromas of green tomato and freshly cut grass. The flavor has notes of artichoke and black olive. It finishes with mild green-olive bitterness and a bit of a peppery tickle.

O-ZIN 500 ml $29

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

angel'S share Agrumato Lemon Oil I keep imagining that if I went to heaven, I’d discover this to be the oil the angels put on their salads.

Smooth and olive-y with a lemoniness that tickles your nose like the bubbles of a fine champagne. This is not lemon flavored oil but the traditional pressing of olives and lemons together—oil of the fruit married to oil of the olive in an ethereal combination. You can do most anything with Agrumato lemon you’d do with other oils and then some. It’s fantastic brushed on top of almost any just-broiled fish.

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the king of rivIera oils

bold and BeautifUl La Spineta Olive Oil

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 extra virgin olive oil again and again. There’s a nose tingling grassiness that adds a depth of flavor to food. It’s especially good in spicy pasta dishes or any place you want a really robust olive flavor.

O-SPI 500 ml $25

Roi Olive Oil

On the Italian Riviera, delicacy, not strength, brings an oil acclaim and honor.

Roi is one of the best Ligurian extra virgin olive oils I’ve tried. It’s been made in the mountain town of Badalucco by the Boeri family since 1900, exclusively from the thumbnail-sized Taggiasca olive.

This oil is the favorite of many of our crew. I regularly recommend it to folks who are beginning their olive oil education.

At home, I love to pour Roi on freshly baked whole fish (half an hour at 350 degrees for a fish that weighs a pound).

O-ROI 1 liter $40 O-ROI-500 500 ml $25

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And One Brand New Oil from an Old Friend

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We’ve been selling oil from Majid Mahjoub—our source for couscous and harissa a few pages back and a slew of other outstanding foods from Tunisia—for a few years now. But brand new to our shelves is Onsa’s extra virgin olive oil, named for Majid’s wife Onsa. It’s made from the same, unique-to-Tunisia chetoui olives that they use in their usual oil. In a small section of Majid’s orchard, the olives are allowed to remain on the tree a bit longer before harvesting. Harvesting the olives when they’re more mature lends a softer, sweeter quality to the oil, though it’s still got a healthy, bitter, peppery kick. First time in the US and exclusive for Zingerman’s.

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One of these would make just the right gift for that friend or client who thinks they're the Indiana Jones of the culinary world. No rolling boulders here, but we’ll send a box food surprises based on our most up to date food research and travel. Perhaps they’ll taste olio nuovo, a coveted bottle of great olive oil, just pressed. Maybe a cheese from one of America’s small dairies so regional it rarely leaves its neighborhood. All foods are exclusively selected for the members. We’ll include writing on each food's history and culture plus recipes for their use. It’s guaranteed to impress and put its recipient on the cutting edge of taste bud territory.

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monthly loafing Bread of the Month Club Our bread is magical. When you walk into Zingerman’s Delicatessen it’s the first thing you see. It’s what you smell.

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COFFEECAKE CLUB

continuous cakes club Coffeecake of the Month Club Our coffeecakes aren’t built on any secrets. They’re also not built from too much sugar, shortening or other shortcuts that mar the flavor of many “gourmet” pastries that look nice but taste bland. These are the product of great ingredients, solid recipes and a lot of tender care. They’re our most popular gift—we ship thousands to food lovers across America every year.

Enter our coffeecake club, and you can send our top-selling coffeecakes over and over, month after month. They’ll have the opportunity to try all of our most famous coffeecakes, one per month. Just as they start to miss the one they finished off a couple weeks ago, a new one will show up. Your delicious gift will arrive in our printed gift box for up to six months, making your succulent sentiments hard to forget. A gift subscription makes a great professional present. Each cake serves 5-7.

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Three Months G-C-3 $120 Sourcream Gingerbread Hot Cocoa

Six Months

G-C-6 $230 Includes first 3 cakes, plus: Tea Cake Lemon Poppyseed New Deli

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More gifts for special occasions at zingermans.com

Bereavement Gift Box Whenever someone loses a loved one, their house is usually besieged by grand floral arrangements. I usually send food, though, and often find it’s really appreciated—especially when they can enjoy the foods right out of the box. Here’s a great, not too perishable gift of a nosher-sized Zingerman’s Sourcream Coffeecake, a dozen assorted Brownie Bites, our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts, Spanish Chocolate Figs and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee, ground. It’s packed with class in our oval wooden crate with Zingerman’s printed on the lid. Need it there tomorrow? Call us.

Not sending in sympathy? No problem, we can remove the identifying sticker.

G-BER bereavement gift box $125 G-BER-NL without sticker $125 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Birthday Cake

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Rustic Retreat Dinner Gift Box

Dense chocolate ganache inside with buttermilk chocolate cake, chocolate fondant frosting outside and a large fondant bow on top to tie it all together, so to speak. A stellar presentation with flavor that lives up to its promise. Ships frozen. Arrives frozen or cool.

A-ZBC b-day cake, 2¼ lbs, serves 6-10 $125

A “thank you” that’s not a cliché. This gift boxed set includes Italian Pasta and Il Mongetto Tomato Sauce, our Paesano Bread, hand cut Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese, Travel Olive Oil from Tuscany and Rum Truffles from the Piedmont.

G-DIN rustic retreat gift box $85

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Mom-To-Be Gift Box Built for cravings of different latitudes.

Our cartoon gift box includes Coop's Salted Caramel Sauce, Rick's Picks People's Pickles, John Macy's Cheese Sticks, Zingerman's Spiced Pecans, Spanish Marcona Almonds, Vosges Black Sea Salt Caramel Bar, Ginger Chimes Candies, Black Magic Brownie and a Mini Sourcream Coffeecake.

G-M2B mom-to-be $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Zingerman’s Midnight Feeding New Baby Box What scares the living daylights out of some people just happened to friends of yours. They had a baby. They don’t sleep.

How on earth do they eat? Very well, if they’re lucky enough to have friends who send this. The Midnight Feeding Gift Box is filled with a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, a mini Hot Cocoa Cake, two Black Magic Brownies, Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Coop's Salted Caramel Sauce, Marcona Almonds, John Macy’s Cheesesticks and a darn cute Zingerman's bib.

G-BBY midnight feeding new baby gift box $125 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Gift Card Any amount good at any Zingerman's business, mailed or electronic.

G-GIF mailed for free E-GIF emailed instantly

Get Well Gift Box

The Munchies Collection

Gift boxed nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Earl Grey Tea, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Ginger Chimes candies, a thick, walnut-studded Magic Brownie and one nutless Black Magic Brownie.

G-GWG get well gift box $75 G-GWG-NL without sticker $75

Shipped free to any campus, including those located in Ohio. Ann Arbor Tortilla Chips, Fundidora Salsa, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts, John Macy's Cheesesticks, our Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar, and a Zingerman’s Magic Brownie. Gift boxed.

G-MUN munchies $65

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From 1 gift to 1000 we specialize in gifts that really taste great

SoRry I ate your sOcks!

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Please Forgive Me Gift Boxes You were late with those papers. The shipment was held up in customs. The defense you mounted fell flat on the jury. You wrote the email, you just forgot to click send. Here are two ways to say you’re sorry, both packed in our colorful gift box, both guaranteed to get them back on your good side.

Aw Nuts Version: Marcona Almonds from Spain, Spicy Cashews with lime leaves, our Spiced Pecans, Peanut Brittle, a walnut studded Magic Brownie, and a miniature version of our Sourcream Coffeecake.

G-IMU-N aw nuts gift box $50 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

ROSEY THE PUG

Snacks Version: Classic Caramel Popcorn, John Macy’s Cheese Sticks, Nor’easter Cheddar, Effie’s Crispy Corncakes, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, All Natural Gummis, Buenos Aires Brownie, Ginger Molasses Cookie, Sea Salt Caramels.

G-IMU-S snacks gift box $75 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

desk hoard Magic Brownie Bites Zingerman’s legendary Magic Brownies—with and without toasted walnuts— carved down to a quarter of their original size. Each is baked with real butter, cane sugar and dark Belgian chocolate. Perfect for desk hoarders.

G-MBB 20 bites in cartoon box (illustrated) $36 G-M50 50 bites in wooden crate $100 G-M100 100 bites in wooden crate $175 G-M200 200 bites in wooden crate $325

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Artisan Market Boxes an evEning at the (home) wine bar Tapas Gift Box

In Spanish, tapas sort of means snacks, but that’s an inexact translation. In English you wouldn’t eat a meal of snacks. In Spain there’s no problem doing just that. There, tapas can start a meal or substitute for it entirely. The ingredients in this collection of open-and-serve delectables are not all Spanish, but the idea is. Eat them as the Spanish do, as evening makes its way indoors, with a glass of crisp wine. Packed by hand in our classic cartoon Zingerman's box, including: Zingerman's Farm Bread, La Quercia’s Borsellino Salami, Spanish Olive Oil and Anise Crispy Tortas, Marcona Almonds, Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers from Basque Country and Portuguese Sardines. Serves 6-8 quite handily.

G-TAP tapas gift box $75 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

mambo ItalianO

Greatest hits

Driving through rural Italy, every little village has their own specialty: a food that’s been made for generations, yet is unknown on the other side of the hill. This collection is a culinary journey to those hard-to-reach spots and flavors. We pack our colorful cartoon gift box with luscious fig preserves, a half pound of Piave cheese, Bonajuto chocolate truffles with cacao nibs, Sicilian sun dried tomatoes with anchovies, hazelnuts from the Piedmont, and Maria Colonna's Leccino olives.

G-ITL gift box $90

A mini Sourcream Coffeecake and hearth baked bread from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, a bag of whole bean coffee from Zingerman’s Coffee Company, Pimento Cheese Spread, a box of Peanut Brittle, Spiced Pecans, a Bacon Cheddar Scone, a Walnutstudded Magic Brownie, a Vanilla Cosmic Cake and a Sky’s the Lemon Cookie.

G-ART artisan gift box $100

Italian Artisan Gift Box

Zingerman's Artisan Gift Box

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FoOds from arOund the five Great Lakes

a who’s WHO of american foOd

American Artisan Gift Box

Great Lakes Artisan Gift Box

Robert Lambert’s Rangpur Lime Syrup from California, Broadbent Sausage from Kentucky, Pleasant Ridge Reserve Cheese from Wisconsin, Virginia Diner Peanuts, La Quercia’s Cured Ham from Iowa, Landrace Fettuccine from California, Vosges Black Sea Salt and Caramel Chocolate Bar from Chicago.

G-AMT gift box $100

Peanut Butter from Koeze in Grand Rapids, Michigan, American Spoon Preserves from Petoskey, Michigan, 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 Wittenberg, Wisconsin, and our Pecan Raisin Bread.

G-GLA gift box $100

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our most popular gift box The Weekender Gift Boxes

Great all-purpose gifts, built from foods the recipient can snack on right out of the box. Whatever the occasion, folks will dig right in.

The Weekender, hand assembled in our cartooned gift box (illustrated) has a loaf of Zingerman’s Artisan Bread, a couple of Brownies (Walnutstudded Magic Brownie and a Caramel Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie), La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, a half pound of our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar and a nosher-sized version of our extremely popular, extremely good Sourcream Coffeecake.

G-WEE weekender gift box $75 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

The Long Weekender, packed in a handsome wooden crate, includes all the items in the Weekender plus Zingerman’s freshly roasted High Flyer Coffee, Zingerman’s Banana Bread, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs and Virginia Diner Peanuts.

G-LWE long weekender $175 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

greAt Snacks right Out of the basket

The Snackboard Gift Baskets

These have always been our most popular gift baskets. No heating, no cooking, just eating required.

SMALL Zingerman’s Farm Bread, Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Garden of Eatin’ Tortilla Chips, Premium Salsa, Fruit Preserves and a Ca$hew Cow Candy Bar. G-SNA-S small $90 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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MEDIUM All the food from the small plus La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts and a Magic Brownie.

G-SNA-M medium $130 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

LARGE

All the foods from the small and medium plus Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs and a Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie.

G-SNA-L large $150

DELUXE (illustrated) Everything in the other three sizes plus Caramel Popcorn, Mediterranean Olives and Zingerman's Spiced Pecans.

G-SNA-D deluxe $180 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

instant hors d’oeuvres Charcuterie and Cheese Gift Box

With a larder like this, the recipient can lay out a devastatingly handsome spread of food so quickly it’ll seem like Harry Potter cast a spell.

We pack a culinary collection in its own wooden “cupboard” that a lazy gourmand can stash until hunger—or desirable company—strikes.

Includes Borsellino Salami, French Cornichon Pickles, Dutch Gouda and Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, Mediterranean Olives, a loaf of Zingerman’s Artisan Bread, La Quercia's 'Nduja Spicy Cured Meat Spread, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts and Rustic Bakery Olive Oil and Sea Salt Flatbreads. Serves ten for snacks, lasts for weeks when refrigerated.

G-CAC charcuterie & cheese gift box $150 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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Valentine's in Bed make it for two Breakfast in Bed Gift Box

Lay out a spread like no other for your lover to enjoy and brag about on Instagram. You’ll be reaping the rewards of your romantic plan for many mornings to come. Includes our mini Hot Cocoa Coffeecake, two Currant Scones, Crema di Torrone Hazelnut Spread, a bag of Zingerman's High Flyer Coffee, a dangerous portion of Spanish Hot Chocolate, Vosges Bacon Chocolate Chip Pancake Mix and few Rabitos Chocolate Covered Figs, just for good measure.

G-BED gift box, serves 2 $75 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

protein morning

Breakfast Meat Gift Box

The most important meal of the day just got meatier. This is the perfect gift for breakfast lovers that order a side of bacon to go with their side of bacon each morning. Compiled from our favorite morning treats with a heavy focus on the porkier flavors. Our colorful printed gift box includes Grandma Broadbent’s Breakfast Sausage, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, Vosges Pancake Mix with Bacon Chocolate Chips, and a couple of our savory Bacon Scones from Zingerman’s Bakehouse. If you know someone that dreams of porcine, this is a gift they’ll love to wake up to.

G-BRM gift box, serves 4 $75 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

The regal, Rare ones

Tradizionali Balsamics from Modena These are the vinegars about which legends have been woven. Aged in wood for ten, twenty, or a hundred years or more. Over the years the vinegar is shifted from one type of wood to the next. Cherry, chestnut, oak and mulberry all leave their imprint on the flavor of the vinegar. The result is an almost unbelievable concentration of sweet-sour flavor in a dense, intense, brown-black vinegar that hints of berries, grapes, vanilla. There is nothing like it in the world. Only a tiny amount is released each year, in elegant glass flasks. Let loose a few drops on ripe strawberries fresh from the market. An amazing treat you'll always remember.

All traditional balsamics from Modena are bottled in Ferrari designer Giorgio Guigiaro's streamlined, sexy bottle, then gift boxed. They may all look the same, but the vinegar is not. We buy ours from Erika Barbieri, one of only a handful of female balsamic makers. I think her vinegars are consistently fantastic—and the juniper aged version is unique.

V-JUN 100 ml white label juniper $135 V-MOD-1 100 ml white label

$125 V-MOD-2 100 ml gold label

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What If yOU could oNly pick thrEe? Desert Island Cheese Gift Box You’re stranded on an desert island. You only have three cheeses (and presumably a refrigerator). Which ones are they? I asked this question to a number of good cheesemongers and the same cheeses kept popping up. The picks are classic well-aged Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano, real cloth-wrapped English cheddar from its birthplace in Southwestern England, and French Comté aged in the halls of Fort St. Antoine. We'll hand cut a half pound of each, house them in fabulous French cheese bags and nestle them in a box with crackers. Now go find that island.

G-N-DES 3 cheeses, crackers $80 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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

There aren’t many cheesemongers in America who put together a cheese selection like this. Few take the time to discover, select, age, care for and cut each cheese to order like we do. All the little steps add up. You can taste the difference. Weigs in over two and a half lbs, serves 18-20. Gift boxed with sourdough bread.

BEGINNER ASSORTMENT Focuses on five great, well aged versions of familiar cheeses.

G-COW-A beginner $100

EXPERIENCED ASSORTMENT Gathers five rare and more adventurous cheese finds.

G-COW-B experienced $140

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Cheese love for the tortured romantic

the most valentineappropriate chEesE

Harbison Cheese from Vermont

Harbison is a soft-ripened cheese from the acclaimed cheese makers at Jasper Hill in Vermont. It’s a small wheel made from The affection between Bayley Hazen Blue cheese and Italian pasteurized cow’s milk, wrapped in the inner bark of spruce chestnut honey sets the standard for cheese pairings that Brontë trees. The bark holds the cheese together as it ages and did for lovers. They're from two different worlds, putting them imparts a woody, slightly piney flavor to the cheese inside. together shouldn't make sense, but it does. Jasper Hill’s awardAs it ages, the cheese goes from being light and firm to ooey, winning Bayley Hazen blue cheese and a jar of Northern Italian gooey, and spoonable. Let it come to room temperature, cut chestnut honey come nestled like lovebirds in our fun, illustrated off the top, scoop it out onto something warm and crusty, then gift box. Smoky, intense, with hardcore flavor for the tortured sit back and let your eyes roll into the back of your head. It’s romantic cheese lover in all of us. that kind of an eating experience—and one that’s better still G-HEA cheese and honey $45 when shared with someone you love.

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The Heathcliff Cheese Pairing

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PASSPORTS TO CHEESE TRAVEL

You pick the country. We’ll head to our cheese cave and take care of the rest. We take deep pride in sourcing and offering a small but excellent collection of cheeses, tending them in our cave, cutting them to order by hand and sending them with careful packaging so they arrive in great condition. We never use cryovac to seal the cheese—it can create off flavors. We wrap them with a special re-usable waxlined bag we import from France that's like cashmere for cheese. It keeps them feeling great (and tasting great) and looking like a million bucks. Makes a great gift for any cheese lover you know, including you.

france

Three French cheeses, shipped direct to us from farm and cave. We’ll assemble an homage to affinage with greats like Comté from Fort St. Antoine, Camembert and French Mountain.

G-FRE with artisan bread $80 G-N-FRE with crackers $80 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY

england

Our most popular Passport. We’ll include English Farmhouse Cheddar, Stilton and Lancashire, all selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy, England’s premier cheese exporter.

G-BRI with artisan bread $100 G-N-BRI with crackers $100 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE

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the mountains

This one I enjoy most. 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 mountain cheeses, including Comté and other well-aged wedges.

G-MTN with artisan bread $80 G-N-MTN with crackers $80 BREAD VERSION 2 BUSINESS DAY CRACKER SHIPS FLAT RATE

Cheese Companions

Fig & Date Press

Violet Mustard

This is just like something you might have found a hundred years ago in a market in Istanbul or Athens. Two different varieties of dried fig—Black Mission and Green Turkish—are pressed with dried dates, almonds and hazelnuts to create a cake that’s as gorgeous to behold as it is mouth-watering to eat. Slice and serve with your favorite cheeses. You can even cube it up and toss into salads, stuffings, or serve straight as a simple dessert.

P-FGD 8 oz pressed cake $20

Violet mustard rarely misses when paired with cheeses—any kind really, but it pairs in a spectacular way with softer cheeses like Harbison (facing page), the ones that are perfectly appropriate for Valentine's day. The mustard seeds are left whole so they make a little caviar crunch, and the flavor is naturally sweet and just slightly spicy. It gives cheese a new dimension. To say it in RomCom terms, they complete each other.

P-VIO 200 g jar $10

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Boat Street Pickled Cherries Bing cherries at the next level, pickled in an aromatic brine of apple cider vinegar, cane sugar, and spices ranging from cloves, mace, and nutmeg to Tellicherry black pepper. The flavors explode on your tongue one by one: first the warmth of the spices, then a bright tartness from the vinegar, and at last that cherry sweetness. Creamy, gooey cheeses dance on your tongue with these pickled fruits.

P-PKC 6 oz jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Valentine Bacon Club Monthly Bacon Club Six to date. That’s how many vegetarians I know who’ve fallen off the bandwagon thanks to bacon. I’m not using that as a proposal for torturing anyone.

I’m just saying any food that’s so good it can break a strong will has to be worth trying. Our bacon club has been lauded by chefs, sous chefs, home chefs, pork-o-philes and bacon freaks all over America. It’s our most popular food club by far and it’s not just the novelty of bacon-by-mail that makes it so loved. The bacons are downright amazing. It’s hard to find any of these bacons in most shops, let alone all of them. They represent the pinnacle of American bacon making and, let’s be honest, this is one food that no one in the world does better than us. Sorry Europe, it’s true. Your Parmigiano-Reggiano and your Champagnes are great, but you can’t touch our bacon.

VALENTINE BACON CLUBS ALL YEAR

QUARTERLY

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G-BAC-12 $400

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Quarter 1 Applewood Smoked Irish Style Back Bacon

Month 1 Applewood Smoked

Month 5 Tennessee Dry Cured

Month 9 Hungarian Double Smoked

Quarter 2 Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

Month 2 Kentucky Dry Cured

Month 6 Balinese Long Pepper

Month 10 Nancy Newsom’s Dry Cured

Quarter 3 Tennessee Dry Cured Indiana Jowl Bacon

Month 3 Arkansas Peppered

Month 7 Spencer’s Irish Style

Month 11 Jowl and Steak

Quarter 4 Balinese Long Pepper Cherrywood Smoked

Month 4 Juniper

Month 8 Hickory Smoked Duroc

Month 12 Cherrywood Smoked

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