Zingerman's Early Bird Holiday Catalog

Holiday 2016

Our first-evEr persOnality crisIS gift Giving GuideboOk

One size does not fit all. Even with food. Different personalities mean different tastes. At the holiday it can prompt a personality crisis—a crisis to find the right gift for their personality. It can mean frustration and heartache. Fear not. We’ve been at this for a quarter century. We've seen a bit of what works and a lot of what doesn't. Let this guide help.

You have no idea what they're going to want this year. Maybe you never have.

They are always a bit of a mystery. You don't know what they'll like or why. The Weekender is our top-seller and leaps the moats of all defenses—there is always something inside someone likes and, more often than not, it's everything.

our best selLing giftbox

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 (Walnut-studded Magic Brownie and a Caramel Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie), La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, a half pound of our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar and a nosher-sized version of our extremely popular, extremely good Sourcream Coffeecake.

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

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

G-LWE long weekender $175 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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They own more than one Zingerman’s t-shirt. They act like a host when they take newbies to the Delicatessen, showing them how to order correctly. They can rattle off the top ten sandwiches and the differences between a new and an old pickle. They can give directions to every Zingerman's business and they know when the Paesano is coming out of the oven today. They are dyed in the wool Zingerman's fans. Here's what to get them.

for the dyed in the woOl zingerman's fan Zingerman's Artisan Gift Box A mini Sourcream Coffeecake and hearth baked bread from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, a bag of whole bean coffee from Zingerman’s Coffee Company, Pimento Cheese Spread, a box of Peanut Brittle, Spiced Pecans, a Bacon Cheddar Scone, a Walnut-studded Magic Brownie, a Vanilla Cosmic Cake and a Sky’s the Lemon Cookie.

G-ART artisan gift box $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

italy's intense ice cream, made at zingerman's creamery Zingerman’s Gelato

Thick, creamy, elegant, luscious. Eating gelato is an event, a special occasion that borders on a religious experience for ice cream connoisseurs. At Zingerman’s Creamery, our gelato makers mix 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.

Choose your own flavors online or by phone.

G-6GL six 12 oz containers $115 FREE SHIPPING

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Impressing your in-laws is easy. All you need to do is be clever, considerate, humble, interesting, inspirational, supportive and financially secure. No big deal, right? Sending baked goods short circuits all awkward conversations, and shows you know the kitchen is where the heart of any family resides.

keEp your stOckings oN Christmas Goodies Gift Box

This box probably won’t fit into their stocking. But it’s so good looking and tasty they might want to hide it anyway. Make everyone jealous by sending our signature wooden gift box filled with an Original Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar, our mini Hot Cocoa Coffeecake, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs, a half pound of our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, a small Zingerman’s Stollen, Spiced Pecans and a box of Zingerman's Pfeffernüsse Cookies.

G-CGG christmas goodies gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

MONTHLY BREAD AND COFFEECAKE clubs

Zingerman's Monthly Food Clubs are the perfect gifts for In-Laws for one great reason. Well, actually more than one—because they act like multiple gifts, arriving month after month. Keeping sentiments alive is great, but it’s the food they crave. Our top selling coffeecakes fit every occasion so they’ll always find a way to use a fresh one. Many consider our bread the best in the country, so you know they’ll never tire of it.

BREAD CLUBS Three Month Memberships 1 loaf per month

Six Month Memberships 1 loaf per month

G-1-3 $70

G-1-6 $139

2 loaves per month

2 loaves per month

G-2-3 $100

G-2-6 $200

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COFFEECAKE CLUBS Three Months

Six Months

G-C-3 $120

G-C-6 $230

Sourcream Gingerbread Hot Cocoa

Previous Three plus Tea Cake Lemon Poppyseed New Deli More clubs pages 46-49

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If they begin their stories, "You know, when I was in (enter exotic location here) we had the most amazing (enter exotic food name here)," chances are you've got a "seen it all."

Give them one of these. When they take a bite, look into the distance, suck in a breath and say, "This reminds me of... nothing I've ever had," you’ll know you hit the mark.

Spreadable wonder Pistacchiosa Cream

Antonio della Corte was creating sweet mixes pastry shops around Rome and Anna Marie Conti was running a farm. She knew farms, he knew kitchens. They combined their talents to create this, the most amazing nut spread I've had in years, made with stunning Sicilian pistachios and extra virgin olive oil.

P-PSP 250 g jar $24

grand tour

Épices de Cru Grand Spice Set with Book First you’ll be struck by how they look. Over two dozen matte metal tins, translucent tops, each filled with a shock of spice. When you unwrap it, the aroma follows: floral, toasty, bright, rich, herbal, earthy, all swimming together. What really steals the show, though, is the taste. Ethné and Philippe de Vienne’s Montreal spice business, Épices de Cru, has what I think are hands-down the best spices around. Their house blends are unparalleled. This kit has 26 of them, enough to keep a curious cook busy for months. It comes with a 143-page book featuring 60 of their well-tested recipes. Makes a stunning gift. Note the spices are whole, which makes them last much longer.

They only need a quick grind with a mortar and pestle or food processor.

P-EDC 26 spices, plus book $85 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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A welcome invasioN

New European Cheese Masters Unless you follow cheese stars on Instagram or compete in the Cheese Monger’s Invitational, you probably haven’t heard of these cheeses. But you will. Three of the newest stars in European cheesemaking, recently come to the U.S. to take it by storm.

The cutting edge of curd, so to speak. The gift box includes Challerhocker mountain cheese made in Switzerland, Brabander goat’s milk Gouda from Southern Holland, and Hafod, an organic Cheddar made to an ancient recipe in Wales. We’ll include a bit of information about each cheese and Irish Brown Bread Crackers.

G-NEM 3 cheese & cracker gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Wild Pine Syrup Over the course of six months Eleanora Cuancia converts pine cones and buds of the rare mugo pine into a syrup that’s hazel brown and smells deeply of resinous pine. A few drops will blow adventurous feasters off their feet.

P-WMP 100 ml bottle $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Napkin rings that match the drapes? Check. Personalized beer cozies and wine tags for each guest? Check. The hostess with the mostess appreciates presentation and packaging of course—and these foods have it—but they know great flavor is what counts.

holiday cLAsSic

Zingerman's Spiced Pecans Pecans toasted with butter, lots of freshly ground Tellicherry black pepper, Jamaican allspice, ground ginger, cloves and more.

The nuts cluster together in little caramelly-spicy handfuls, making it way too easy to eat too many.

I recommend two: a bag for eating and a gift tin for those times when a quick host present comes in handy.

P-PCN 12 oz gift tin $25 P-S-PCN 5 oz letterpress bag $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

insTant tapAs fOr the hOst with the most Tapas Gift Box

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, TunaStuffed Piquillo Peppers from Basque Country and Portuguese Sardines. Serves 6-8 quite handily.

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

northern italian hazelnut britTle D. Barbero Torrone Nougat from Piemonte

David Barbero’s family has been making torrone hazelnut nougat—what I call Italian brittle—for five generations, since 1883 in the town of Asti.

Neither the history nor repetitiveness seems to dull his passion. When you ask him about torrone his eyes light up and he talks in fast, clipped English. “We don’t kill the torrone! Industrial makers use no egg whites and they crank out a batch in an hour. They beat the mixture fast and use lots of pressure. Ours takes seven hours. We break for lunch! All of this makes our texture crumbly, not hard and tough. Here, take a bite, you can taste.” First off, you gotta love the fact that he mentions lunch as a factor in how they make better food. More importantly, he’s spot on, especially when it comes to texture. Barbero torrone is gently crumbly, in a shattering, delicate way. Spiked with loads of famous Piemontese hazelnuts that are roasted in house every morning, then hand selected and folded into the nougat.

In their classic Northern Italian graphic-designed tin they make great gifts.

P-DBT 500 g tin large pieces $55 P-DBT-SML 100g tin small pieces $17 P-CTN 100 g tin small pieces in chocolate $17 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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You think things are going well, but it’s still too early to tell. You want to let them know you’re interested but you don’t want to come off as pushy. Wait, are we talking about dating or business? Same difference. We specialize in corporate romance, with a tasty collection of professional presents and a crew of concierges ready to help.

go ahead, overwhelM them The Jawdropper

A far-reaching and many-pleasing assortment of eat-immediately foods, from pastries and cheese to cured meats and sapid sweets, all packed in Dufeck's biggest cheese crate—which repurposes nicely as a puppy storage unit. Includes our Walnut-studded Magic Brownie and no-nut Black Magic Brownie, Sea Salt Topped Pecan Blondie, a box of Classic Currant Walnut and Apricot Rugelach, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs, a nosher sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Classic Currant Scone and Ginger Scone, Nor'easter Cheddar, Zzang!® Original Candy Bar, Sea Salt Caramels, Zingerman's Spiced Pecans, Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami and Prosciutto Americano, Caramel Popcorn, Tunisian Olives, Spicy Cashews, Virginia Diner Peanuts, and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee ground and ready to brew.

G-JAW gift box, serves 25 no problem $250 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

They point at their right palm to show directions. They shop at Party Stores. They vacation "up north." Past or presently living in the mitten, Michiganders light up when with gifts from the Great Lakes State.

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

big house peanutS

Peanut Butter from Koeze from 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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

M Tin Peanuts

Big, fat, perfectly cooked Virginia peanuts. I’ll go out on a limb and say they’re my favorite nut ever. Here we’ve got them two ways, packaged in a University of Michigan block “M” tin. The first way is straight-up salted. The second is coated in butter and sugar. The butter forms a crispy, caramel-like jacket and the sugar sweetens them just a little.

P-UOM 10 oz tin, salted $8 P-BTM 10 oz tin, butter toasted $8 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Sometimes it seems like every country in Europe has a national Christmas dessert: fruitcake from England; beigli from Hungary; stollen, lebkuchen, and pfeffernüsse from Germany, panettone from Italy and so on. Despite the difference in the cultures they come from, the desserts tend to share some common ingredients, like candied fruit, nuts and exotic spices. (They were meant as a splurge when those items were rare.) Today we don’t have to take the grand tour to taste them all. We don't even need to import them. More and more American bakers are firing up the ovens to turn out old world holiday cakes here at home.

Germany’s Christmas cake

Zingerman’s Holiday Stollen

Our delicious German style holiday cake is a long-standing Zingerman’s holiday tradition for folks looking for unique dessert ideas, great gifts and fine food for weekend brunch. If you haven’t had Stollen and wonder what all the fuss is about, just take a look at the ingredients: real butter, Bacardi® white rum, glacéed lemons, oranges, cherries, fresh lemon and orange zest, fresh lemon juice, almonds, golden raisins, Red Flame raisins, real vanilla and our very scent-sual Indonesian cinnamon. Toasted and spread with a little sweet butter, it’s delicious and is perhaps rivaled only by our own coffeecake as a great afternoon snack cake. Each Stollen comes gift boxed, serves 6-8 and, barring extensive snacking, lasts for weeks.

G-STO gift boxed stollen $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

A spicy sweet German tradition

Lebkuchen

Sandy Lee fell in love with lebkuchen, the traditional German Christmas cookie, while living in Berlin. “It was like nothing I’d ever tasted,” she recalls. “I couldn’t get all those complex flavors out of my head.” She became obsessed, learning all she could about them before returning to the states and starting her own lebkuchen bakery. The recipe dates back to Medieval times and has many steps. The dough is made from almond and hazelnut flours, whole almonds, egg whites, honey, marzipan and a bevy of spices. The dense dough rests for nearly a day before heading to the oven. The finished cookies are hand glazed and studded with almonds (classic variety) or cloaked in dark chocolate. You will find three classic and two chocolate cookies in this fire engine red tin. Each is about four inches across and an inch tall. They’re thick, moist, slightly spicy, sweet and very nutty. The consistency is a cross between cake and marzipan, making them the perfect after dinner treat with coffee or tea. Although traditionally intended to keep for months, I think these sweet, spicy, nutty treats will only last a few days (or hours!) at your house. A cookie with history, a perfect gift for anyone on your list.

P-LEB 5 cookie tin, 1 lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Full disclosure: the price on these fruitcakes may cause sticker shock. While England's holiday cake has become cheap, somewhat industrial, a laughing stock, these are another species altogether. Crafted by Robert Lambert in California from rare citrus that he picks and candies himself. A slice cut thin while the cake is cool—I recommend serving it chilled—looks like a stained glass window and is a revelation.

White Rare Citrus Fruitcake

Dark Rare Citrus Fruitcake

Vintage Fruitcakes

Robert's classic cake, the one we've offered for many years. It's by far the best of its kind I’ve ever tried. Blood oranges, bergamots, Rangpur limes and more, many that he picks himself.

Each cake is soaked in cognac and aged for a few months, then garnished with a slice of candied fruit and a bay leaf, all wrapped gently in cheese cloth. It tastes fresh, clean and lively.

Comes wrapped in a muslin bag.

P-KUY 1 lb fruit cake, six inches

long, serves 8-10 $70

Robert starts by candying exotic citrus like Buddha’s hand citron, bergamot, blood orange, Texas lemon and white grapefruit peels. He adds hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, dark raisins, prunes, black figs soaked in Poire William eau de vie—oh yes, there’s more— dates, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, 10-year-old Port, and candied ginger.

Then, wait for it...he soaks it all in bourbon. Comes in a muslin bag.

P-RLD 1 lb fruit cake, 6 inches

long, serves 8-10 $70

If you already consider fruit cake a joke the idea of a vintage fruit cake must seem like a real marketer’s whopper. Selling last year’s fruit cakes? Yes, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Over the last year the flavor has developed, expanded and gotten more complex.

Like a wine that was fun while young, more serious now that its aged, these fruit cakes have become a real aficionado's treat. Gift boxed.

P-VTG white vintage $80 P-VLD dark vintage $80

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Hungary’s Christmas Cake Beigli

germany's coOkie Pfeffernüsse Cookies

Beigli (bay-glee) is Hungary’s favorite Christmas sweet. It’s a yeasted dough rolled up with a sweet filling made of finely chopped walnuts. The outside shines to it and a unique crackle appearance. Inside, it has a trademark swirl that reminds you of a cinnamon roll standing on its side. The buttery dough and rich honey walnut filling blend perfectly together, balancing the sweetness of the inside with the satisfying chew of the dough. Baked by hand at Zingerman's Bakehouse, it comes in a muslin gift bag nestled inside our fun, colorful cartoon gift box.

G-BEI beigli gift box $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

The name translates roughly as “pepper nut.” The pepper part is because they’re spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and yes, even a bit of black pepper. The nut part is not because they contain any nuts—they don’t—but because they’re shaped somewhat like a walnut in its shell. The illustrated box makes an adorable stocking stuffer, the cookies are sure to bring holiday cheer to even the Bah Humbug-iest of Scrooges.

P-PFF 8 cookie box $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Christmas coOkie Box

Fancy Schmancy Holiday Cookie Box This gift box has three different styles of Christmas cookies baked with all-natural ingredients and gift boxed at Zingerman’s Bakehouse. Makes a great host gift. Toasted Pecan Butter Balls, Pfeffernüsse Spice Cookies and Chocolate Cherry Chewies with Valrhona chocolate and dried cherries.

P-TIN 18 cookie gift box $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

You know it's Christmas in Italy when the panettone start appearing in shop windows. They're the fluffy, tall cakes that are seasoned with candied citrus and packaged as beautiful as a present for the Pope. We’ve had great traditional Italian panettone every Christmas since our doors opened in 1982.

Traditional Panettone If Italy had to elect a national Christmas dessert, this would be the top candidate. The texture is as fluffy as a pillow, the candied citrus-studded dough peels off in strips like cotton candy. What you can’t finish after dinner makes fantastic French toast.

Wrapped and ribboned.

P-ANE 750 g, serves 10-12 $55

Panettone Balsamico

Chocolate and Fig Panettone

Balsamic is laced through this cake, forming a ribbon of dark glaze. Instead of finding panettone’s traditional gems of dried fruit you’ll discover veins of cherry-sweet, luscious caramel. The gift box is vintage Italian graphic design, classically gorgeous.

P-BPN 750 g cake, serves 10-12 $80

A classic panettone cake that hides luscious pockets of tender figs and bits of melt-in-your-mouth Italian chocolate. Wrapped and ribboned in typically gorgeous fashion, it makes a beautiful gift for a chocolate-andfruit fan.

P-CPN 750 g cake, serves 10-12 $65

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Wild Cherries and Hand-Picked Apricots in Syrup It’s been a dozen holidays since I found wild Italian cherries from Piedmont. I remember bringing the first jar to Christmas at home, spooning out individual fruits to top a crisp of cracker slathered with a gooey triple crème cheese whose name I forget. I kept at it for an hour—I have a big family and everyone wanted seconds. We barely made a dent in the jar. Prepared in small batches so they do not bruise, packed with syrup in a resealable glass jar, we've been bringing in a small quantity every holiday since and their fans gobble them up. We also offer soft, tender apricots, hand harvested and rushed into a simple syrup bath within hours. The speed is important, it protects the texture and flavor of the fruit. The longer they wait around, the more their texture breaks down, the mushier they get. But that’s the only rushing allowed. The apricots take their time once they reach their bath, allowing the sugar to slowly soak into the fruit, preserving them and freezing their flavor at its peak. An elegant gift. Fantastic with gelato or fresh cheeses. The cherries are pitted, but the apricots still have their stones so chew carefully.

P-AGR-CHE 680 g jar wild cherries $40 P-AGR-APR 680 g jar apricots $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Muraglia Olive Oil From Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, comes this spicy, racy extra virgin olive oil. Made from 100% Coratina olives, this one ain’t for everybody. But the oil aficionados who crave intensity will be blown away by its big, bold body and grassy, peppery finish. Fittingly, the bottle is just as intense as the oil within. Ceramic artists create each bottle by hand, about three per hour, which makes up quite a bit of the cost. The glaze is vibrant, a swirl of bright stripes. Not only is it beautiful to look at, it’s good for the oil, protecting it from light which causes olive oil to lose its flavor. Keep it around and you can fill it with new oil when you run out. Very limited supply.

O-MUR 500 ml striped ceramic bottle $60 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Clementines in Chocolate P-CIC $35

Chocolate Figs

P-RAB $7 - $25

Sugarplums P-UGA $45

Drinking Chocolate P-ROV $25

Chocolate Orange Peels P-OCP $20

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A religious experience Springerle Cookies

The St. Benedict Monastery of Ferdinand, Indiana was founded in 1867.

For more than half that time, the sisters that live and work there have baked and sold cookies to support the Monastery. Springerle cookies originated in the Swabia region of southwestern Germany at the start of the Renaissance. Images and icons are pressed into the dough before baking and allowed to dry. The extra time gives the cookie a hearty texture and they taste slightly of anise without being overly sweet.

Traditionally served for Christmas and Easter, they’re great for dipping in coffee or to please the lovers of old world flavors and special celebrations.

P-SPG six cookies $13 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

c.s. lewis’ favorite sweet Turkish Delight with Double Roasted Pistachios I remember reading “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” as a kid and being flabbergasted when Edmund gave up his siblings to the White Witch for plates of Turkish Delight. I’d never had Turkish Delight, but I figured it must taste amazing for a kid to sell his family up the river just to have some. After tasting this confection from Nar Gourmet in Turkey, I finally understand Edmund’s motivation. Made with twice-roasted pistachios, sugar, water and starch, this seemingly simple confection dazzles with flavor and texture of sweet pistachios. Chewy, crunchy, nutty and sweet, you don’t have to make a deal with the devil to enjoy this traditional treat. Comes in a handsome blue tin.

P-DLT 450 g tin $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

one of eurOpe’s fouNding cheESes Sbrinz

While Sbrinz may not be a household name here, it’s one of Europe’s most ancient cheeses, having been made for over two thousand years. It's also one of the longest aged cheeses—the hundred pound wheels we have were in caves for three years after having been made in the summer of 2013 from the raw milk of Brown Swiss cows foraging high in the Swiss Alps. Despite its age, Sbrinz tastes remarkably light, sweet and even a bit bright. Texturally, it'll reminds you of Parmigiano-Reggiano, with crunchy flavor crystals in abundance. Hard to acquire, easy to devour, it’s a special treat for anyone that’s into well-aged cheese with lovely, lingering flavors. Very limited quantities.

C-SBZ by the lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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a cheEse’s sweEt dreAm Fig & Date Press

There may be a lot of dried fruit with nuts out there looking trendy these days but this is no fad. This is something you might have found a hundred years ago in a market in Istanbul, Cairo, Athens or Palermo—albeit rarely done this beautifully. Two different varieties of dried fig (Black Mission and Green Turkish) along with dried dates, almonds and hazelnuts to create a pressed cake that’s as gorgeous to behold as it is mouth-watering to eat.

Slice and serve this darkly sweet cake with your favorite cheeses like Comté or Manchego. You can even cube it up and toss into salads, stuffings, or serve straight as a simple dessert. Makes a great host gift.

P-FGD 8 oz pressed cake $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the secret cut

Ibérico de Bellota Secreto Pork The secreto is a coveted shoulder cut prized in Spain and Portugal.

It’s incredibly rich and beefy, like the pork version of a ribeye steak.

We have a limited supply from Spain’s Ibérico hogs, the black footed pigs of Southern Spain, the ones who roam wide in the Dehesa, foraging, rooting—and in this case, eating kilos of acorns (bellotas)—and turning their loins and hams into the most prized cured meats in the world. In fact 99% of the time you find the pork cured, not fresh ready to roast or grill. Lucky us. We have a limited supply of fresh secreto pork steaks. Each comes marbled with the bellota-fed fat that melts in your mouth in a way that’s almost surreal. Exceptional. Ships frozen, arrives frozen or cool.

M-SEC about 1¼ lbs $100 FREE SHIPPING

for the grilLmaster Grass-Fed Tri Tip Steak The tri-tip is a triangular cut of beef that’s nicely marbled, intensely flavorful, and a little tricky to cook. Overdo it and it can get dry and unappealing.

But grilled to a perfect medium it’s juicy and makes for stupendous eating. We’re getting our tri-tips from Carman Ranch in eastern Oregon.

The cattle spend their whole lives on pasture eating grass, and they’re only harvested in the summer when the cattle are at their plumpest and the beef is the most flavorful. All the little steps add up—this is really, really good beef. Ships frozen, arrives frozen or cool.

M-TRI about 2 lbs $80 FREE SHIPPING

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–FRESSER– Large, serve 10-12 easily Our perennial best sellers, baked from scratch, now travel free to any destination in the lower 48. Choose from one of our classics or deluxers, pick your packaging, and we’ll get it to excited mouths post haste.

–NOSHER– Small, serve 5-7 handily

coffeecakes SHIP FREE

Each lasts for two weeks on the counter.

Frozen they’ll hibernate for months.

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

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

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

HOT COCOA

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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GINGERBREAD

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

A-GGC-L large in box G-GGC-L large in crate A-GGC-S small in box G-GGC-S small in crate

molasses, and loads $55 $65 $40 $45

LEMON POPPY SEED

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

NEW DELI

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

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

WILD BLUEBERRY

Technically, it’s a buckle, but let’s not quibble over terms—it’s delicious.

Topped with a butter-crumble crust.

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

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CARTOON BOX Sturdy, re-usable, way fun.

Illustrated by our one-and-only Ian Nagy.

Made with recycled cardboard.

WOODEN CHEESE CRATE Crafted in Wisconsin by Dufeck, the country’s last cheese crate maker.

Zingerman’s logo silk screened on the lid.

SMALL NOSHER Innovative coffeecakes, made with a slightly more adventurous set of ingredients.

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

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OLIVE OIL CAKE

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

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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APPLE BACON

ALMOND

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

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

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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Give them foOd they'lL rave about

When’s the last time you sent a business gift for the holiday and the recipient called you back to say how great it tasted? How they wanted more? How you must be the smartest, best-informed, most well-dressed gift giver they know? I promise at least one of those comments will come your way. Our food has that kind of effect.

hOliday hAm, Retro-upgraded

Heritage Holiday Hams

A classic corporate gift, here made to extraordinary standards. The two types of old breed hogs are raised in the Midwest under the direction of Heritage Foods. The pigs are never confined, have access to the outdoors to root and roam, and never receive antibiotics or hormones. Cured with salt and maple sugar for two weeks then smoked over hickory. Shipped frozen, arrives cool or frozen.

Red Wattle

Berkshire

Red Wattle hams are the sweetest variety. With a thin ring of fat that melts in your mouth.

M-RWH 4-5 lbs, boneless,

serves 10 $85

Berkshire hams have a classic porky flavor that everyone loves, turned up about six notches.

M-BHC 4-5 lbs, boneless,

serves 10 $85 M-BHC-L 7-9 lbs, boneless,

serves 20 $150

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Awesome Office Supplies

bite size cubicle stash 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 (illus) $36 G-M50 50 bites in wooden crate $100 G-M100 100 bites in wooden crate $175 G-M200 200 bites in wooden crate $325 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Stuffed with a Nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Macy’s Cheesesticks, Spanish Chocolate Figs, crispy Palmiers, Italian Biscotti, Virginia Peanuts, Freshly Roasted Zingerman’s Coffee, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, Homemade Spiced Pecans, two Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, and ten Brownie Bites.

Feeds a dozen without regret, often for a couple afternoons.

G-OFF gift box $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Build it

Mix & Match Custom Pastry Sampler Gift Box

Create your own assortment of Zingerman's big brownies, stellar cookies, cosmic cakes or creamy scones. Choose your mix and give us a ring. Visit www.zingermans.com where you can customize your box online. Your personal selection is hand packed to order in our fun cartoon gift box.

Cookies

Brownies Magic Brownie

Ginger Jump-Up

Classic with toasted walnuts.

Muscovado brown sugar and chunks of crystallized ginger.

Black Magic

Oatmeal Raisin

Classic minus the nuts.

Maple syrup, organic oats and giant red flame raisins.

Buenos Aires Brownie sandwiching a layer of dulce de leche.

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

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

$35

Cosmic Cakes

Scones Currant

Vanilla Real Madagascar vanilla.

With dried currants.

Lemon

Raspberry With raspberry preserves.

With candied lemon zest.

Ginger Spicy, crystallized ginger.

Chocolate Chunk

Cheddar Herb

Big pieces of chocolate and toasted walnuts.

A savory scone with cheddar and fresh rosemary.

Triple Chocolate

Country

Chunks of caramelized milk chocolate from Valrhona, melted dark chocolate and cocoa.

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

Sky’s the Lemon

Bacon Cheddar

With fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and candied lemon.

Savory with bits of Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon and Vermont cheddar.

6 piece assortment G-6PP

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$50

10 piece assortment G-10P

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$90

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Buttercream Cakes

Swiss buttercream frosting has fresh egg whites whippedwith sugar then mixedwith real butter and Madagascar vanilla.

Merry Mint

Caramel Apple

Chocolate cake filled with a rich chocolate mint buttercream then iced with vanilla buttercream. Cloaked in crushed brownie pieces and topped with a fondant candy cane.

A-MER serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

Apple butter cake with dulce de leche buttercream frosting inside and out.

Wrapped in crispy pieces of toasted cake crumble. Ever so slightly spiced with fall flavors.

A-SPI serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

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Hummingbird Coconut

A southern twist. With toasted coconut, fresh bananas, toasted pecans, and pineapple. Covered in Madagascar vanilla buttercream frosting.

A-HUM serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

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Toasted Pecan Pie

“Consider this Southern Gal completely converted to your amazing, incredible, delectable, delicious Toasted Pecan Pie. Worth. Every. Penny. Worth. Every. Calorie. As God is my witness, let no other pecan pie pass my lips again!”

Krista, Lakeland, Florida

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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

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Jewish Baked Goods

Jewish Bakery Sampler Our most popular Jewish baked goods gift box contains our two favorite Jewish baked goods, each in two different flavors. Classic cinnamon walnut currant and raspberry rugelach with vanilla cream cheese and apricot hamentaschen.

P-RHN 8 pieces of rugelach,

6 pieces of hamentaschen $30

Coconut Macaroons

Rugelach Rugelach are the royalty of Jewish baked goods: crispy, flaky, cream cheese pastry, dressed in cinnamon sugar, rolled around a sweet filling. Sixteen pieces per box.

P-RUG 8 walnut/currant & 8 apricot $30 P-RCR 8 chocolate & 8 raspberry $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Half vanilla, half chocolate, all with coconut.

Crunchy on the outside, creamy on the inside.

A-MAC 12 mixed macaroons $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Hamentaschen

Hamentaschen are wonderfully scrumptious triangle-shaped, open faced cookie dough pastries usually eaten during the Jewish celebration of Purim. Four of each: vanilla bean fresh cream cheese, poppyseed, and Northern Italian apricot.

P-HAM 12 mixed hamentaschen $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Goat’s Milk Caramels Farmstead Confection

Big Picture Farm started in 2010 with a small herd of goats in the hills of southern Vermont. They use their fresh goat’s milk in their little creamery and confectionary. In the last six years their caramels have won a huge following of fans, including me. Caramels made with goat’s milk have a softer texture than traditional caramels, so you won’t lose a crown chewing one. Their flavor has bright notes on top of a big bass line of burnt sugar. Four flavors in each box: Sea Salt & Bourbon Vanilla, Maple Cream, Chai and Cocoa Latte.

P-GMC 20 caramels, 5.2 oz box $30 P-GMC-S 11 caramels, 3.2 oz box $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Bereavement Gift Box Whenever someone loses a loved one, their house is usually besieged by grand floral arrangements.

I usually send food, though, and often find it’s really appreciated—especially when they can enjoy the foods right out of the box. Here’s a great, not too perishable gift of a nosher-sized Zingerman’s Sourcream Coffeecake, a dozen assorted Brownie Bites, our Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, John Macy’s Cheesesticks, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts, Spanish Chocolate Figs and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee, ground. It’s packed with class in our oval wooden crate with Zingerman’s printed on the lid. Need it there tomorrow? Call us. Not sending in sympathy? No problem, we can remove the identifying sticker.

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

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

G-GIF mailed for free E-GIF emailed instantly

Birthday Cake 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 FREE SHIPPING

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Rustic Retreat Dinner Gift Box 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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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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, Pfeffernüsse Cookies, John Macy’s Cheesesticks and a darn cute Zingerman's bib.

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

We assemble each gift box by hand for you. So if you'd like to customize yours just give us a ring.

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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Join the cult

a love aFfair

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

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

my house oil 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 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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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.

O-AGR 200 ml bottle $36 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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beautiful BalAnce

Why we carry only one brand of balsamic The Balsamic Vinegars of La Vecchia Dispensa

While we carry different vinegars and olive oils from different farms and acetaias we only carry one family's everyday balsamic. Working just off the historic square in the center of the old town of Castelvetro, southwest of Modena, Italy, Roberta Pelloni and her husband Marino Tintori make a range of outstanding balsamics under the name La Vecchia Dispensa. And while I've probably tasted another fifty balsamics since we started carrying theirs a decade and a half ago none have come close in terms of balance and flavor. Although many believe Americans tend to gravitate toward sweet caramel-flavored balsamics, Marino is quick to emphasize “the key to great Balsamico is balance.” Exaggerating sweetness is an easy way to enhance appeal and reduce the need for proper blending and aging. You might not notice it at first, but after many uses overly sweet balsamics get kind of dull. Not so with Vecchia Dispensa. They have a legion of followers who return to them again and again.

A staff and customer favorite, their 10 year aged balsamic is the most intensely flavored balsamic of its age I’ve ever tried. Its complexity, with rich flavors of oak, blackberry and dark fruit, is partly due to aging in very small batches. That allows more evaporation and contact with the barrel—both of which contribute to more intense flavors. Although aged for only 25 percent longer than the 8 year balsamic, the intensity of flavor is almost double. As you move up the age range—to 16 year and 30 year—the liquor thickens, the sweetness enhances, the carmelization takes you on a wild ride of flavor.

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16 Year Aged

V-8YR 250 ml bottle $25

V-16Y 250 ml bottle $45

10 Year Aged

30 Year Aged

V-10Y 250 ml bottle $35

4 Ages

V-30Y 100 ml bottle $50

white balsAmIc, sort of Agrodolce White Balsamic Vinegar

16yr in barrel

4 bottle sampler V-VBT 4 x ¼ oz each $30

Oak Barrel of 16 Year Aged V-BAR-16 1 liter $350

Balsamic is made from cooked grape juice, while wine vinegars are never cooked–and most cheap ones never see an aging barrel.

Agrodolce is super smooth, light on the tongue, subtle and very, very long in the finish. Technically it's not a balsamic, but 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.

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New! Pecan Praline brand new banana bread

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 banana bread has no nuts, with simple ingredients like cane sugar, real butter and fresh eggs, a touch of Madagascar vanilla and two freshly peeled bananas per loaf. Chocolate chunk banana bread is the same story, with the addition of huge chunks of chocolate.

And new this fall, pecan praline banana bread is 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

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 WalnutStudded Magic and no-nut Black Magic.

G-SUS chocolate suspension gift box $50 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

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Zingerman’s Holiday Bread Box We send thousands of our artisanal loaves to tables across America every Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you can’t make a holiday gathering send these and they won’t miss you. You can pick your own assortment to serve from these pages but if you’d like to get four of the season’s favorites beautifully gift boxed, just ask for this gift box. Our cartoon holiday bread box contains Farm Bread, Cranberry Pecan, Roadhouse and Chocolate Sourdough Breads.

G-HBB holiday bread box $55 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

We've been shipping our hearth-baked breads for almost twenty-five years.

the latest bakest

That special place Sweet Loaf o' Mine Gift Box

Hot Out of the Oven New Bakery Box The latest creations from Zingerman’s Bakehouse. The gift box includes Pane Nero bread made with heirloom Tumminia wheat from Sicily, Craquelin, the sugar-and-Grand Marnier national bread of Belgium, and Beigli, the Hungarian sweet walnut roll.

G-HOB gift box $85

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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bREAkfast breads

the bakers' crown

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

G-FES bread-fest box $50

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

Rustic Peasant Loaf Gift Box

Bread-fest Gift Box

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Zingerman’s claSsics

ofF the beaTen path

Deli Deluxe Bread Box

Sweet & Spicy Bread Box

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

G-SAM-A deli deluxe $50

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

G-SAM-B sweet & spicy $65 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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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

paesano

Our most popular bread. Spreading out like the cap of a wild mushroom, its thin, snow white crust surrounds a soft, savory crumb filled with lots of holes (we work hard to put the holes in). This is the traditional bread of Puglia—the heel of Italy’s boot—and the best one to eat alongside a pasta dinner.

Recommended for ripping and dipping in olive oil.

B-PAE 1½ lb handmade loaf $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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farm bread

Imagine sitting around a French farmhouse table waiting for dinner. This would be the bread the family would serve. Like French pain au levain, it's a white-wheat mix made with a sour starter. Its crust is crisp, its flavor subtle and never tiring. The one and a half pound loaf is pictured, but the three pound round is my favorite. Cut into quarters and freeze what you don’t eat.

B-FRM-RND 3 lb handmade

round $15 B-FRM-LOF 1½ lb handmade

loaf $9

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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.

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 $8 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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cinNamon raisin A cinnamon raisin bread with substance.

A chewy, solid loaf where the flavor of the dough supports the freelancing of the Red Flame raisins and the racy scent of 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 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!"

Mitchell from Ann Arbor, Michigan

chOcolate CHerRy choCOlate sOurdough Craquelin

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

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

The national bread of Belgium. It’s a buttery brioche rolled up with fresh orange zest and sugar cubes soaked in Grand Marnier®. The additions form a sweet swirl inside each slice like a cinnamon roll and their dark orange flavors seep into the surrounding dough. Some of our crew call it “coffeecake bread,” which gets to the spirit of the loaf, though its texture is much lighter.

B-QUE 1½ lb handmade loaf $25

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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 $14 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

My Italian friends would probably think this bread is heresy, but that’s their loss. It’s a natural for me because I love bread, parmesan and good black pepper.

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

B-PEP 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16

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 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

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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.

"America's very best rye? No contest... It comes from Zingerman's Bakehouse." Saveur Jewish Rye B-RYE 1½ lb loaf $9

Pumpernickel B-PUM 1½ lb loaf $9

Caraway Rye B-CAR 1½ lb loaf $9

Onion Rye B-ONI 1½ lb loaf $9

Chernushka Seed Rye B-CHR 1½ lb loaf $9

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Pane Nero

Chestnut Bread 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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

Cracked wheat, cracked rye, cracked barley, corn grits, oats, millet, whole wheat, whole rye, flax seed, poppy seeds, a little honey and a nearly irresistible outer crust of toasted sunflower seeds. More than a mouthful—this ain’t no bird feed.

B-8GR 1¼ lb handmade loaf $10

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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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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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.

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Koeze Peanut Butter Michiganders also enjoy the country’s best peanut butter, made in Grand Rapids, unimproved since 1925.

P-BUT 17 oz jar smooth $9.50 P-CRU 16½ oz crunchy $9.50

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DUTCH GOUDA L'amuse Cow's Milk Gouda Made in Northern Holland from the pasteurized milk of Holstein cows, which give L'amuse a distinctive creaminess speckled with big, crunchy flavor crystals. Selected for us by famed Dutch cheesemonger Betty Koster, aged for over two years, the flavor is correspondingly intense. It fills your mouth with butterscotch and caramel. It's a cheese that can easily double as a dessert (and goes great with espress0).

C-LAM hand cut slabs, by the pound $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

THE KING OF CHEESE 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. The wheels we select have a really rich, wonderfully complex flavor with a lovely, long finish with none of the bitterness or mouth burn that often mars the final flavor of others.

C-PAR hand cut pieces, by the pound $32 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

MOUNTAIN CHEESE Comté from Fort St. Antoine France’s most renowned mountain cheese, selected for us by Essex Street Cheese Co. from the caves of legendary Jura affineur Maison Marcel Petite. Fudgy texture, well balanced, never bitey flavor, with a buttery, hazelnut taste that grows on the tongue and slowly expands to fill your entire mouth. A cheese that makes you want to come back to eat it again and again.

C-COM hand cut wedges, by the pound $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

CLOTHBOUND CHEDDAR Montgomery’s English Clothbound Cheddar The closest thing to the original cheddar being made on the planet, made from a single herd of Holstein-Fresians who graze on hills thought to be the site of Camelot near Somerset in western England, Clothbound wheels whose flavor is grassy and brothy, a total revelation.

C-EFC hand cut chunks, by the pound $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Pleasant Ridge Reserve This may be the best American cheese being made today. Like a European mountain cheese, it's fruity in an appley sort of way—rich, deep and sweet. Production is very small—about 6,000 wheels a year. They utilize a seasonal, open grazing system, which means all the milk used to make the Pleasant Ridge Reserve is taken when the cows are happy and content out in the open pasture. Happy cows tend to produce great tasting milk. We work closesly with Andy Hatch, the maker, to select specific days of cheese, tasting from a series of different days of production to pick the most flavorful of the bunch to bring to our cheese locker in Ann Arbor and hand cut for you.

C-PRR hand cut slices, by the pound $38 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Tarentaise A new American cheese made in the style of Europe’s great mountain cheeses like Gruyère and Comté. Firm but creamy mouthfeel and flavors of toasted hazelnut and dried fruit.

C-TAR by the pound $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Challerhocker Essentially Swiss Appenzeller made to a more traditional recipe —one with more flavor. A raw cow’s milk cheese that’s washed in wine and aged for about a year and, like other great European mountain cheeses, it's nutty and sweet with a fruity finish. It’s amazingly creamy for a cheese of its age with fantastic depth and long lingering flavors.

C-HOL by the lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Brabander Goat Gouda From Southern Holland in the province of Brabant, home to many of the country's goat farms (goat's milk cheese is actually more popular than cow's milk in the Netherlands these days). Made from the pasteurized milk of Saanen goats, it's fresh tasting, with notes of caramel and cream.

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We hand cut cheese just for your order from big, beautiful wheels of Cheddar, Comté, Parmigiano-Reggiano and more, then wrap them in fantastic re-usable cheese bags we discovered in France.

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Cheese Passports You pick the country. We’ll head to our cheese cave and take care of the rest. We take deep pride in sourcing and offering a small but excellent collection of cheeses, tending them in our cave, cutting them to order by hand and sending them with careful packaging so they arrive in great condition. We never use cryovac to seal the cheese—it can create off flavors. We wrap them with a special re-usable wax-lined 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.

OUR PASSPORTS Italian cheeses both famous and secret that taste astounding, including our longtime favorites like Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano, real Pecorino Toscano and hard-to-find Piave from the Dolomite mountains in the Veneto.

G-ITA with artisan bread $80 G-N-ITA with crackers $80

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

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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

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

We’ll pick three of our best-tasting, award-winning American farmstead cheeses, like Cabot Clothbound Cheddar and Reading from Vermont, and Marieke Gouda from Wisconsin.

G-AME with artisan bread $80 G-N-AME with crackers $80

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Matured beyond what you’ll normally find in the USA, these cheeses, including Swiss Antique Gruyère and Farmhouse Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano, are often the cheesemaker’s favorites. And mine.

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england's christmas cheese Colston Bassett Stilton

British cheddar may have conquered America and subsequently lost some of its English-ness, but Stilton remains a national treasure and it's still THE cheese to eat at Christmas in England. An exquisite, legendary blue with broad, buttery flavors that linger well into the evening. Selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy just for us.

C-STI ½ lb hand cut wedge $21

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Stilton with toasted walnuts and Port is the way Brits traditionally take in Christmas. It also goes great drizzled with honey.

superior spreads

Pimento Cheese and Liptauer Cheese From Zingerman’s Creamery, two of our all-time favorite spreadable cheeses. First, pimento cheese, the southern American classic.

Ours is a salty/tangy/spicy mix of raw milk Cabot Vermont Cheddar, Hellmann’s mayo, pimento peppers and spices. Second, liptauer (pronounced “lip-tower”), a Hungarian inspired mix of fresh Farm cheese spiked with garlic, Hungarian paprika, capers, toasted caraway and just a touch of anchovy. It’s moderately spicy and exceptionally flavorful. Both make excellent toppers for crackers, burgers, sandwiches, salamis, and just about anything else you can think of to spread ‘em on.

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Bright, tart, with finishing notes of sweetness. That’s what the trio of pickled fruits from Boat Street Cafe bring to the table and why they’re the perfect pairing for any cheese you might serve.

Creamy, gooey cheeses are brought into a harmonious balance when dancing with these pickled fruits.

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Walnut and violet mustard rarely miss when paired with cheese. The richness of their texture and the zip of their flavor give cheeses a new dimesion they don’t achieve on their own. To say it in RomCom terms, they complete each other.

The first time I drizzled honey over cheese was a Eureka moment in my culinary history. Whether dark and slightly bitter like chestnut honey or sweet and delicate like tupelo, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts when you merge bees and cheese.

Pickled Raisins, Figs, and Cherries

Walnut Mustard P-WAL 200 g jar $10

P-CHE 12 oz jar $16

P-PCK 9 oz raisins $16 P-KFG 9 oz figs $16 P-PKC 6 oz cherries $16

Violet Mustard

Tupelo Honey

P-VIO 200 g jar $10

P-ULE 9 oz jar $20

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Spanish Line-caught Tuna Ortiz Tunas from Spain Tuna is one of the most popular foods we sell. It may seem surprising because here in the U.S., tinned tuna is a low-end commodity usually sold in supermarkets. In Spain it’s at the complete opposite of the culinary spectrum. Tuna in tins, especially these from the fourth-generation family firm Ortiz, is one of the jewels in Spain's culinary crown. Ortiz's fish are all line caught—never netted—cleaned 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.

Spectacular stuff.

Bonito Loin P-ORT

Bonito Loin hand packed in jar

112 g tin $8 4 or more $6.50 each SHIPS FLAT RATE

Yellowfin Loin

P-YLL 6 oz jar $20

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A solid chunk of loin, cleaned and hand packed in a glass jar. Great when presentation counts.

P-ORT-JAR 220 g jar $22

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Bonita Ventresca (Belly)

Yellowfin Ventrensca (Belly) P-YVT

110 g tin $15 2 or more $13 each

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National treasure Portuguese Sardines

Tuna is our top-selling tinned seafood, but sardines aren't too far behind.

It's surprising to me since sardines are not a big part of the popular food scene in America. This is perhaps the classic case of tinned food seen as poor, low-quality food. Before college students ate 75 cent ramen, they ate 10 cent sardines. Forget that stereotype. Here, four or five tender, perfect sardines, come nested in a tin of olive oil, and their flavor is extraordinary—the prize of Portugal, revered there as a kind of national seafood treasure. We offer pure olive oil (classic style, illustrated) or extra virgin olive oil, which has the effect of making the flavor more buttery, less metallic; in a way it's less fishy.

P-SAR 125 g classic (illustrated) $7 Way more tinned fish 4 or more $ 5.50 each online at zingermans.com P-SEV 110 g extra virgin $9

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Anchovies Four Ways

Great anchovies aren't a joke, they are a prize. Eat them as snacks or hors d'oeuvres. Use them in the sauce of a dish or, laid on top, at the end. Love them and share them, just don't be scared of them.

Oil Packed Anchovy Fillets

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La Gran Anchoa Fillets

Ten fillets, ready for eating.

P-OPA 90 g tin $14 4 or more $10 each

Nine to twelve huge fillets, ready to eat.

P-LGA 75 g $29 2 or more $25 each

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Anchovy in Sundried Tomato

Anchovy Stuffed Peppers

Sicily's antipasto is ready to eat.

P-AST 230 g jar $20 2 or more $16 each

So good I call them red truffles.

P-AUP 180 g jar $30

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New American Salamis In the last decade the American salami scene has gone from practically nonexistent to bustling. Inspired in part by the rise of whole animal butchery, today there’s tons of new salami out there. Not all of it is great. Some is too spiced, or too dry. But the good ones are really, really good. Our salami stock features some of greatest salamis made in America today. They start with great pork. They add simple, pronounceable spices and ingredients. They hang the salamis to cure traditionally for weeks or months. The result is full-flavored salami that rivals the best cured meats from Europe. Serve at room temperature, sliced thick, for the most flavor.

Let your salami warm to room temperature.

Cut it on the thicker side for maximum flavor.

Borsellino Salami

Nduja

Vecchio Salami

Made by La Quercia in Iowa with pork raised to impeccable standards. Mild but substantial, great for cheese plates or hikes in the woods.

M-DSG 6 oz classic $12 M-SDS 6 oz piccante slightly spicy $12

Nduja is dry cured like salami but the result is silky and spreadable, like spicy pork butter. Punchy yet smooth with hot Calabrian chiles.

M-NAN-2 6 oz $17

Coarsely ground with plenty of white morsels of fat. Silky smooth texture, rich but clean porky flavor with a hint of black pepper and garlic.

M-VEC about 7 oz $23

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Summer Sausage

Broadbent Breakfast Sausage

Goat Finocchiona Salami

Summer sausage is a classic Midwest meat any time of the year. A mix of pork and beef that’s meaty, soft, sweet, a little smoky.

M-SSS 10 oz piece $20

Breakfast sausage (not salami!) made from fresh pork, sage and red pepper, stuffed into a cloth bag, smoked over green hickory and air dried for a week.

M-BRB 1 lb bag $12

Made with a mix of pork and goat, plus plenty of black pepper and fennel. It tastes like a really good sweet Italian sausage, but in salami form.

M-FNO about 6 oz $19

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The New Americans Cheese Box The New American Cheese Explosion might not be the right word. But it’s the word that first comes to mind when I think about the amount of great American cheese that’s appeared in the last fifteen years. There are new cheesemakers everywhere, coast to coast.

Cheesemongers who twenty years ago would struggle stock six or seven American cheeses now regularly stock three or four times that many—and they had to be careful editors to choose only that many.

Folks, it’s a new golden age for American cheese, and we get to enjoy its benefits. Here are three delicious works from three the New American cheesemakers redefining our country’s cheese: Ooey gooey pine-wrapped Harbison from Jasper Hill in Vermont, extra-aged Pleasant Ridge Reserve from Uplands Cheese in Wisconsin and Bonne Bouche goat’s cheese from Vermont Creamery.

Sent with some great new American bread—Zingerman’s Roadhouse loaf. Serves 10, lasts for many days.

G-NAC 3 cheeses + bread, gift boxed $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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Our heritage breed porterhouse pork chops are cut an inch and a quarter thick, have the tenderloin attached like a T bone steak, and usually cause the table to hush when they arrive. They taste like pork did a century ago, when pigs were bred to thrive out of doors, to root and roam, to have a varied diet—which is what these do.

Great on the grill, the also cook up fantastically on the stove top (I like to pan brown a chop then put it in the oven to finish). From pigs that never receive hormones or antibiotics.

Red Wattle Pork Porterhouse Chops

Duroc Pork Porterhouse Chops

Berkshire Pork Porterhouse Chops

Red Wattle's flavor is famously sweet, in part due to a luscious band of melting fat.

M-WAT-4 4 x 13 oz $80 M-WAT-8 8 x 13 oz $140

The Duroc breed's pork is earthy, nutty—almost beefy.

The most flavorful of the lot.

M-DUR-4 4 x 13 oz $80 M-DUR-8 8 x 13 oz $140

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The chef's choice, Berkshire is the most popular breed for restaurants.

M-BER-4 4 x 13 oz $80 M-BER-8 8 x 13 oz $140

"Most assuredly not the other white meat."

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Chops, Ribeye and Burgers Heritage Meat Kit

Less than 1% of our country’s meat has a pedigree like this: heritage breeds, fed on pasture with room to roam, never any hormones or antibiotics. Pedigree aside, after tasting meat from many farms, I can tell you not all of the 1% of sustainably raised meat tastes great.

Sometimes you pay for the animal husbandry but don’t get the flavor—or worse, you get a tough steak. Luckily, we've done the tasting work for you (I know, tough job, right?). What we have here is extremely tasty and tender.

Two thick Red Wattle porterhouse pork chops, a gigantic cowboy cut ribeye from Carman Ranch and a pound of grass-fed ground beef. Shipped frozen for a night—or a week—of grilling you’ll never forget.

G-HMT heritage meat kit $160 FREE SHIPPING

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I'm a big fan of the baked bacon style: cooking slices on a parchment-lined sheet pan in the oven.

Bacon endures so many short cuts. I’m talking commercial bacon, grocery store bacon: bellies injected with water to add weight; curers, if you can call them that, who speed up the process with too many chemicals; excess sugar and salt to overcome a lack of flavor; liquid smoke! Not one of these crimes is committed against the members of our bacon roster, the cream of America’s bacon crop. I highly reccomend investing in three or four of them. Bacon freezes fabulously and there are few foods you can stock in your kitchen that reduce stress more effectively than a couple pounds of just-in-case bacon.

Nueske’s Applewood

Juniper & Thyme

Hickory smoked and dry cured.

The most intense bacon we carry, not everyone's cup of tea. Prized by chefs like David Chang of Momofuku.

M-BBT 1 lb sliced $20

Made with pasture-raised heritage breed pork. Cured with juniper, brown sugar, and thyme for fantastic, herbaceous flavor.

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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. 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.

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

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Cherrywood

Arkansas Peppered

Smoked with cherrywood for just over twenty-four hours. Cured with celery-based nitrate so it bears the odd label “uncured.”

M-CHY 12 oz sliced $19

Hickory smoked and wrapped in a sweet and spicy jacket of black peppercorns. Rich and meaty with a peppery kick.

M-ARK 12 oz sliced $15

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Shocking. There’s no other way to describe the experience of first tasting acorn fed pork. In the oak forests of southern Spain, heritage Ibérico pigs spend their lives rooting around on pasture. In the fall when the ground is littered with acorns (bellotas in Spanish), they gobble them up. 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. Eating it is an exceptional experience, one of the pinnacles of meat eating.

Ibérico de Bellota Cured Pork Loin

Ibérico de Bellota Spanish Cured Ham

Acorn Edition Borsellino Salami

A foot long boneless loin coated with barely-peppery paprika and riddled with fat: tiny, creamy white flecks among the rosy flesh. It's astonishingly good to eat and will last months refrigerated.

M-LOM about 1.1 lbs, whole $140

The classic. The ham of acorn-fed Ibérico pigs is one of the jewels in Spain’s culinary crown. The texture and flavor of this cured ham are incredible. It’s something we should all experience at least once in our short carnivorous lives.

M-SIB 1½ oz, sliced $35 M-IPB 10 lb bone in shoulder ham $500

Move over, Spain. The princes of American pork at La Quercia in Iowa are using acorn-fed Tamworth breed pork from Missouri to make a special acorn edition of their soft, sweet, porky Borsellino salami. Very limited.

M-ACB 6 oz salami $15

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that's a sandwich

Now

F RE E SHIPPING

Michael Ivins, The Flaming Lips

legendary Reuben Sandwich Kits The perfect sandwich by mail. If you know someone who loves real deli fare, sending this gift will cement your status as the most clever, generous friend they have. Some assembly is required, but considering it has been known to make grown men weep in appreciation, we think it’s worth it.

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 * Cooked in peanut oil

Jon & Amy's Corned Beef & Pastrami Double Dip G-JJA serves 8 $200

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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

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

a la carte Corned Beef

Our award-winning sandwich ingredient, ready to rescue lunch at a day's notice.

M-LCB 1 lb, sliced $30 M-LCB-W whole raw, 9-11 lbs

serves 12 $110 SHIPS ONE BUSINESS DAY OVERNIGHT

Camp Bacon Gift Box A gift box for the bacon lover, the bacon fanatic, the bacon lunatic. Chances are if you're reading this catalog you know several people who match that description. Includes Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon from Wisconsin, Peppered Bacon from Arkansas, Hickory Smoked Duroc Breed Bacon from Indiana, plus an Apple & Bacon Coffeecake from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, Chocolate Bacon Pig from Vosges in Chicago and our Bacon Pig Magnet.

G-CAMP-1 gift box $135 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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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

bravisSIma

Italian Artisan Gift Box 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, Bonajuto chocolate truffles with cacao nibs, Sicilian sun dried tomatoes with anchovies, D. Barbero’s hazelnut torrone and Maria Colonna's Leccino olives.

G-ITL gift box $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

betTerment with pePperMiNT Peppy Peppermint Bark

sweEt or Savory? the answer is yes.

Sweet & Savory Gift Box

A dialectic on love, in edible form. There's time for hours of debate and compromise as the gift recipient works through this gift box, including: Sweet: Chocolate Covered Spanish Figs. Savory: La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Dutch Gouda. Sweet and Savory: Chocolate Covered Peanut Brittle, Sea Salt Caramels, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate Bar and Sea Salt-topped Blondie.

G-SAS sweet & savory gift box $90

I’m a sucker for traditions, especially when they’re this delicious. Peppermint bark has been a Christmas staple for my family thanks to my great-aunt Caddy’s sweet tooth and love of Fannie Farmer’s confections. While I’ll never forget Aunt Caddy, this peppermint bark from Chocolate Signatures in Toronto has erased all memories of that other candymaker. Dark Belgian chocolate is topped with white chocolate, then coated in a layer of crushed peppermint candies.

Each slab of bark is nearly a quarter inch tall and thick with peppermint. Comes in a hot red tin.

P-PBK 220 g tin $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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give The GRandEst

The Ultimate Basket

Unequaled food glory. Includes an assortment of four different Zingerman’s Brownies, Molasses Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Zingerman’s Nor'easter Cabot Cheddar, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Zingerman’s Coffee, Zingerman’s Peanut Brittle, Garden of Eatin' Blue Corn Chips, Salsa, Caramel Popcorn, Ginger Chimes Candies, Destrooper Belgian Butter Cookies, Spanish Marcona Almonds and Chocolate Covered Figs, Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans and a Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar. G-ULT ultimate basket $200 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

italiAn tour A Tuscan’s Treat

Includes Zingerman’s Paesano Bread, Zingerman’s Travel Oil, Vecchia Dispensa’s Aged Balsamic Vinegar, Antonio Mattei’s Original Tuscan Biscotti, Italian Slow Dried Pasta, Italian Tomato Sauce from Il Mongetto, Hazelnut Torrone from the Piedmont, Leccino Black Olives, Bonajuto Sicilian Truffles and a hand cut, hand wrapped wedge of Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

G-TUS italian gift basket $175 FREE SHIPPING

A baker’S basKEt

Almost as Good as Grandma’s Gift Basket

This is one of our most popular baskets, a selection of some of the baked goods made by Zingerman’s Bakehouse presented in a wooden box emblazoned with the Zingerman’s name.

DELUXE (illustrated) Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Zingerman’s Magic Brownie and Black Magic Brownie, Dried Currant Scone and Lemon Scone, Sea Salt Pecan Blondie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Sky's the Lemon Cookie, Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, Italian Honey and English Preserves.

G-GRA-1 deluxe $75

ULTIMATE Double of all the pastries plus a loaf each of Cinnamon Raisin and Chocolate Sourdough breads.

G-GRA-2 ultimate $135 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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built to impreSs Pastry Dreambox If you want to knock someone’s socks off this is the gift to do it. It’s a big foot and a half long pine crate (illustrated) stuffed to bursting with our incredible nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, two Currant Scones, a Magic Brownie, a Dulce de Leche Buenos Aires Brownie and a Pecan Blondie, a Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, a Big Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, a Vanilla Cosmic Cake, Banana Bread, Star Thistle Honey and six handmade, crispy Palmiers.

G-DRE pastry dreambox, serves 14-16 $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

fOr a big bunch

for a few foOd Lovers

Baked Goods Bonanza

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 Cheddar Herb Scone and a Currant Scone, a six pack of all butter Palmiers and our nosher-sized Hot Cocoa Coffeecake.

G-BNZ bakehouse bonanza, serves 10-12 $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Pastry Sampler

Our cartooned gift box includes a mini Sourcream Coffeecake, Walnut-Studded Magic Brownie, Ginger Molasses Jump-Up Cookie, Currant Scone, Sea Salt Pecan Blondie, plus a pouch of six handmade, crispy, all butter Palmiers.

G-ZBS pastry sampler, serves 6-8 $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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

LARGE

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

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

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DELUXE (illustrated)

MEDIUM

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

G-SNA-D deluxe $180

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

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cake of light

Zingerman’s Olive Oil Cake Made with toasted almonds, lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon’s worth per cake—and lots of excellent extra virgin olive oil. It’s moist, tender, with a flavor that lingers long after the slice is sent south. The olive oil makes the cake retain more moisture than butter so it has a lovely, soft texture that stays that way for days and days. The oil also makes the cake an appropriate symbolic dish for Chanukah. We send each cake safely and attractively packaged in our cartoon box or handsome wooden crate.

Serves 5-7.

A-OOC-S gift boxed in cartoon box $45 G-OOC-S gift boxed in wooden crate $50 FREE SHIPPING

gelt Grown up Chanukah Gelt

The best tasting—and most authentic looking—gelt I’ve ever encountered. Gold and silver dusted disks (no foil wrapping here) from Veruca Chocolates in Chicago are formed to look like Judean coins circa 40 B.C. The real treasure is their flavor: dark chocolate with crunchy crystals of sea salt, an adult balance of sweet and savory. A great gift for every day of Chanukah. Kosher. Quantities limited.

P-GLT 16 piece box $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

chanukah's sweEts

NEW FLAVORS!

Chanukah Gift Box

chanukah caramel Béquet Kosher Caramels

Over the last decade, in going from a home kitchen operation to an awardwinning caramel maker, Robin Béquet has quietly developed a line of caramels among America’s best. Her silver gift box tied with a ribbon—a great package for Chanukah—is filled with three of my favorites: sea salt, butterscotch, and salted mocha. The smaller bag is sea salt only.

P-PEQ 11 oz ribboned box $40 P-CSS 4 oz bag salted $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Keep them noshing during the holiday with our printed gift box stuffed with Rugelach and Hamentaschen, Olive Oil Cake and Chocolate Gelt.

G-CHA chanukah gift box $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Where you see this, items ship for $10.99 flat rate per address. Combine with other flat rate items and the price is the same.

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10th anNual

Roasted Calabrian Figs Franco Rao’s figs are an eagerly awaited seasonal crop.

Prized dotato figs are picked by hand when they are fully ripe, beginning to dry and concentrate. They’re caramelized over twenty-four hours in a low-temperature oven, a step almost no one takes because it adds extra time and expense. The impact on the flavor, however, is immense.

These figs have a roasted, caramel-sweet flavor that’s irresistible. Hand packed in a ball the size of an apple, wrapped in fig leaves and twine. It’s a traditional way to store them in Southern Italy, rustic and attractive. They are great with yogurt, with cheese, with ice cream. As a gift for someone with an eye for rustic foods with real flavor, you won’t find much better. Very limited quantities.

P-GFB 250 g $26 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Zingerman’s Food Tours Go where you could never go alone. Eat what you could never eat if you had to seek it out yourself. Get inside the kitchens and onto the farms of the world’s greatest food makers. With space limited to just over a dozen people per trip, these are once-in-a-lifetime food pilgrimages with insider access.

Included: Nearly all meals, often with special menus for us.

Accommodations at hotels, rustic and chic.

Transportation by air-conditioned private bus.

Cooking lessons.

Visits to ancient towns and to the food makers operations.

Three guides: two from Zingerman’s and one local.

Morocco March 19-28, 2017 $6,000 individual room $5,500 share a room

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Hungary May 8-18, 2017 $6,200 individual room $5,800 share a room

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The gifts that remind them of how awesome you are every month. Choose your club, pay once and we'll take care of the rest. They'll get a box of fabulous food delivered to their doorstep.

Guaranteed to make you look like a genius.

it's betTEr with Bacon When Pigs Fly: American Bacon Club Six to date. That’s how many vegetarians I know who’ve fallen off the bandwagon thanks to bacon. I’m not using that as a proposal for torturing anyone. I’m just saying any food that’s so good it can break a strong will has to be worth trying. Our bacon club has been lauded by chefs, sous chefs, home chefs, pork-o-philes and bacon freaks all over America.

It’s our most popular food club by far and it’s not just the novelty of bacon-by-mail that makes it so loved. The bacons are downright amazing. It’s hard to find any of these bacons in most shops, let alone all of them. They represent the pinnacle of American bacon making and, let’s be honest, this is one food that no one in the world does better than us. Sorry Europe, it’s true.

Your Parmigiano-Reggiano and your Champagnes are great, but you can’t touch our bacon.

“Amazing artisan bacon” Mario Batali

BONUS!

DOUBLE BONUS!

Bacon refrigerator magnet

Guide to Good Bacon Booklet

“The best thing I ever ate.”

Michael Symon

“Fantastic gift!”

Bobby Flay

FOUR BACON OF THE MONTH CLUBS TO CHOOSE THREE MONTHS G-BAC-3 $99

Applewood Smoked Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

SIX MONTHS G-BAC-6 $189 Previous Bacons plus Juniper Tennessee Dry Cured Balinese Long Pepper

ALL YEAR

QUARTERLY

G-BAC-12 $400

G-BHF-4 $199 Quarter 1 Applewood Smoked Irish Style Back Bacon Quarter 2 Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered Quarter 3 Tennessee Dry Cured Missouri Jowl Bacon Quarter 4 Balinese Long Pepper Cherrywood Smoked

Month 1 Applewood Smoked

Month 5 Tennessee Dry Cured

Month 9 Hungarian Double Smoked

Month 2 Kentucky Dry Cured

Month 6 Balinese Long Pepper

Month 10 Nancy Newsom’s Dry Cured

Month 3 Arkansas Peppered

Month 7 Spencer’s Irish Style

Month 11 Jowl and Steak

Month 4 Juniper

Month 8 Hickory Smoked Duroc

Month 12 Cherrywood Smoked

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Zingerman's premier Clubs Culinary Adventure Society and Food Explorers Club

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.

CULINARY ADVENTURE SOCIETY

Culinary Society Shipments Arrive

Ships quarterly 8-10 foods per shipment 1 Time G-1-Z $175

2 Times G-2-Z $325

4 Times (year) G-4-Z $600

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2016

2017

2017

2017

FOOD EXPLORERS CLUB Recently explorer and society members tried

Ships monthly 1-2 foods per shipment G-EXP-3 3 monthly installments $125

G-EXP-6 6 monthly installments $240

• Italy's cult spicy meat spread, 'nduja

G-EXP-12 12 monthly installments $475

• New heirloom grain bread from Zingerman's • Ultra rare porcini oil from Spain • Alder smoked wild line-caught tuna

FREE SHIPPING FORBIDDEN FOODS CLUB Three Month Club

The moSt dAngerOus foOD club In aMerIcA Forbidden Foods Club A monthly subscription to diet-busting, religious-lawbreaking foods.

Six Month Club

G-FFC-3 $180

G-FFC-6 $350

Includes 3 months plus:

Kosher Katastrof Broadbent Sausage Hickory Duroc Bacon Mo's Bacon Bar

Vegan Villains Spencer's Irish Style Bacon Nor'easter Vermont Cheddar Portuguese Sardines

Lactose Intolerance Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Dutch Gouda Cheese Reading Raclette Cheese

Hypertensive Episode Sea-salt Topped Pecan Blondie Celtic Sea Salt Caramels Salt-cured Salami

High Fat Holiday Buenos Aires Dulce de Leche Brownie Rabitos Chocolate Covered Figs 'Nduja Spicy Meat Spread

Know Carbs Paesano Bread Farm Bread 3 Pound Round Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie

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American Cheese Club

Twenty years ago you could count the number of great American cheeses on two hands. Maybe that’s exaggerating, but not by much. Back then, being a small-scale cheesemaker was like being a beekeeper—a strange hobby with little reward or recognition. Half the cheesemakers crafted nearly identical tiny wheels of goat’s milk cheese, which, given that we had no American goat cheese tradition to speak of, cheese shops insisted on calling chèvre, the French word for goat. If you went into any serious cheese shop in America in 1994, chances are the only American cheeses you found were chèvres and cheddars. Have things ever changed.

This monthly club celebrates some of our favorite cheesemakers. Some are new. Some of them have been around for a long time. And while their cheeses may not be traditional in the European sense of having been made the same way for over a century, they’re all made by hand, using traditional methods, often with milk from the herd they milk themselves, something fewer and fewer Europeans makers can claim.

AMERICAN CHEESE CLUB G-AMC 4 months $200 Month 1 British Influence Landaff Cabot Clothbound Cheddar

Month 3 The Blues Bayley Hazen Dunbarton Blue

Month 2 Table Cheeses Tarentaise Reading

Month 4 Wisconsin Pleasant Ridge Reserve Marieke Gouda

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ARTISAN CHEESE CLUB Three Months

Six Months

G-CHE-3 $200

G-CHE-6 $390

Italy

Includes 3 months plus:

Cave-Aged Taleggio Parmigiano-Reggiano Fontina Val d’Aosta

Switzerland

France Ossau French Mountain Camembert Fort St. Antoine Comté

Spain Farmhouse Mahon Aged Manchego Aged Zamorano

L’Etivaz Antique Gruyère Extra Aged Emmentaler

USA Pleasant Ridge Reserve Bayley Hazen Blue Reading from Vermont

Britain Montgomery’s Cheddar Kirkham’s Lancashire Stilton

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from dAiry to cave to you Artisan Cheese of the Month Club

Our Artisan Cheese Club is a chance for you to let someone you know “visit” some of the most incredible dairies and aging caves in Europe and America. Each month we’ll hand cut, wrap and assemble a box of three choice cheeses (over a pound and a half total) and include loads of detailed notes describing where the cheeses are from, how they’re made and how to serve them. We focus each shipment on a specific country. At the end the recipient will have a cheese education that's hard to find these days, including a deep understanding of cheesemaking styles and how to serve and pair the cheese.

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smoke and SAlt Cured Meat of the Month Club From our cured meat cache, a tongue tingling assortment of salamis, bacon, hams, sausages and deli meats. We’ll pace them out, just one box a month, to keep the gout at bay.

CURED MEAT CLUB Pork Rillettes Three Months

Six Months

G-MEAT-3 $180

Month 1 Salami Seduction Spicy Calabrian Salami Borsellino Salami Month 2 Bacon Two Ways Applewood Smoked Bacon Arkansas Peppered Bacon Month 3 Spreadable Meats Spicy Calabrian 'Nduja

G-MEAT-6 $350 Includes 3 months plus: Month 4 Cheeky Guanciale Jowl Bacon Month 5 Three Little Pigs Prosciutto Americano Ibérico Dry Cured Ham Speck Month 6 Southern Breakfast

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FREQUENT FISH CLUB

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Frequent Fish Club

Once a month we’ll send a couple examples of the most glorious seafood you can find in a tin, jar or bottle. If that sounds like an oxymoron you better steel yourself with a magnum of Rioja because the lid is about to pop—literally. Prepare thyself.

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Three Months

Six Months

G-FSH-3 $125

G-FSH-6 $250 Includes 3 months plus:

Tuna Teacher Ortiz tuna from the loin and belly cuts

Turf and Surf Anchovy Stuffed Sun Dried Tomatoes and Tuna Stuffed Piquillo Peppers

Sardine Exposé One from Portugal and one from France

Two Ways to Anchovy Oil Packed Anchovies and ancient Garum Colatura Sauce

Squeamish Extinguisher Smoked Eel and Nonnate di Pesce Fish Spread

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Kissin’ Cousins Mackerel and Yellowfin Tuna

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Giorgio Cravero Parmigiano-Reggiano Gift Set

Giorgio Cravero’s family has been aging Parmigiano-Reggiano in Bra, Italy since 1852. He focuses on soft, sweet flavors, the kind of Parmesan you want to eat, not grate. For the cheese lover on your gift list, we’ve hand cut a huge two pound wedge from of one of Giorgio’s exquisite eighty pound wheels and put it in a muslin bag along with one of his company’s seals and a classic Parmigiano knife—the kind Italians use to whittle and wedge off irregular chips of parmesan. They nibble after dinner, they nibble as a snack, they nibble whenever they’d like. The cheese lover you choose will do the same. Very limited quantities.

G-GIO cravero cheese gift $90 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. Five cheeses weigh in over two and a half lbs, serving 18-20. Gift boxed with sourdough bread.

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

G-COW-A beginner $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

EXPERIENCED ASSORTMENT Gathers five rare and more adventurous cheese finds.

G-COW-B experienced $140 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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 over and over so I figured I was on to something—a collection of cheeses so compelling the best cheesehounds I know would choose them above all others. 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 plus crackers $80 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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cheEse party in a box Holiday Cheese Course

We’ll hand cut and wrap three of our top selling cheeses the day they ship to you: Pleasant Ridge Reserve, Bayley Hazen Blue, and L’Amuse Gouda. We’ll also stash some spiced pecans and a loaf of Roadhouse Rye along with it. About a pound and a half of cheese, it’ll serve twelve for appetizers or after-dinner-or maybe a bit of both. Handpacked in our cartoon gift box. We also have great American slate and Italian olive wood serving boards and handmade Irish cheese knives, sold separately.

G-HOL gift box $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

P-S518 P-S712 P-BRD

slate board 5 x 18 inches $45 slate board 7 x 12 inches $35 olive wood board 14 x 7 inches $60

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P-ROR P-RYR

4 inch twin pronged knife 4 inch paddle blade knife

$200 $200

KNIVES SHIP FREE

Make your Own MoZzARElLa Home Cheesemaking Kit

Every box comes with rennet and citric acid— enough for 30 batches of cheese—as well as easy to follow instructions on how to make your own mozzarella or ricotta from scratch.

All you need to provide is milk and salt. It takes less than an hour to turn the milk into cheese. A great gift for kids, cheese lovers and families that cook together.

P-HCK makes 30 batches $39 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Bam A laM

Black Betty Brabander Every year Betty Koster of Holland’s L’amuse cheese shops sets aside a small trove of her treasured Brabander goat cheese. Where most wheels are aged for six months, this group gets to rest for double that time. Here, all the great elements of Brabander are amplified. The caramel. The grass. The milkshake richness. When it’s gone that’s it till next fall. A once-a-year treat.

C-BTY by the pound $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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In the last decade there’s been a renewed interest in old fashioned grass-fed beef. Not all of it is great in part because not every rancher goes to slaughter at the right time. Just like tomatoes have a season, so does grass fed beef. Lush summer grass makes for great tasting beef. Winter grass makes for less flavorful—and less tender—beef. At BN Ranch in California and Carman Ranch in Oregon, the cattle spend their whole lives out on pasture eating grass, and they only produce beef when the grass is at its richest and the cattle are at their fattest. You really can taste the difference.

Dry-Aged Cowboy Cut Ribeye from Carman Ranch

Bone In Strip Steaks from Bill Niman’s BN Ranch

Bavette steak from Carman Ranch

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. Bone in, 2 inches thick.

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

These bone-in New York Strip steaks are some of the best I’ve ever tasted. They have incredible marbling, and that fat means huge flavor—the best way I can put it is that they taste steak-ier than most. Cut 1 1/4" thick.

M-STK-4 4 steaks, 14-16 oz each $225 M-STK-8 8 steaks, 14-16 oz each $400

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A favorite among butchers for its huge flavor, but unknown to most of the rest of us. It comes from next to the flank, so it’s great for grilling up rare like a flank steak or for tossing in a stirfry. Beefy, juicy, with slightly sweet flavor. From cattle that are grass-fed and finished.

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

holiday lamb Dorset Leg of Lamb

Forget everything you know about mint jelly as a fluorescent green blob that you shove to the side of the plate. This one from Ballymaloe in Ireland is tart and sweet and tastes, amazingly, like mint fresh from the garden. Outstanding on roast lamb or game.

P-MJL 220 g jar $10

In the US, we love our holiday hams. Now don’t get me wrong, I love a good ham, too. But around the globe, lamb is the top choice. New this year, we have a limited supply of Dorset legs of lamb from Pine Hill Farms, a collection of small farms in upstate New York that raise lambs on pasture without any hormones or antibiotics.

Dorsets are a heritage breed known for having a flavor that’s not overly gamy.

These legs are sweet and tender with delicious mineral tang but no tallowy aftertaste. They ship frozen with the bone in but the shank cut off, making them about the size of a bowling ball.

M-LEG 4-6 lbs, shank off, serves 8-10 $175

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Osso Buco is a nineteenth century Milanese dish that, luckily, has never gone out of style. It’s a cut of shank, cooked for hours in a slow braise of wine, tomato, carrots, celery, and onions. After that long, slow cooking, the meat falls off the bone with the slightest nudge of a fork, and the flavor is deep, rich, intensely savory, huge. Served with polenta, risotto, or mashed potatoes, it’s the ultimate winter comfort food. Traditionally it’s made with veal. We have two less traditional takes: one beef, and one pork. They ship frozen, and may thaw and be cold, not hard, when they arrive.

Beef Osso Buco Where a veal osso buco is soft and mild, far more delicate, this is big and beefy, with a tender meat that pulls away from the bone like brisket. You can dial up the spice content in your braise and not worry that it’s going to take over the flavor of the meat.

Made with beef from cattle that spend their whole lives out on pasture, roaming free with their herds, in central New York state.

M-OBB-2 2 pieces, 1¾ lbs total $60 M-OBB-4 4 pieces, 3½ lbs total $90 FREE SHIPPING

Red Wattle Pork Osso Buco Red Wattles are an old breed of pig that was raised for flavor, not fashion.

The flavor is rich, herbaceous, even a little sweet. It has a magical fat that, once cooked, softens its edge to a luscious, lip-smacking bite that melts in your mouth. The Red Wattle pigs are raised humanely with access to the outdoors, given natural feed with no hormones nor antibiotics.

M-OSS-4 four 8 oz pieces in one 2-lb package $60 M-OSS-8 eight 8 oz pieces in two 2-lb packages $95 FREE SHIPPING

superioR ShOulders Ibérico Bellota Fresh Shoulder

The heirloom of heirloom pigs, the standard against which all great pork is measured. It’s very rare to find the meat fresh, ready for home cooking. That’s what we have hear. A tender cut of shoulder that, when roasted to medium rare, will make you swear you’re eating some crazy cross between a cow and a pig. It’s not. It’s all pig. And you’re in heaven. Roast in the oven.

M-ISH about 1¼ lbs, boneless $100 FREE SHIPPING

mountain meat Speck

Speck originated in the Alto Adige, the alpine region of the South Tirol in northern Italy (though this one is made in Iowa). This is mountain people’s meat, meant to fortify. It’s a lean piece of pork, cut from the rear leg, rubbed with sea salt and smoked over apple wood.

Where prosciutto is delicate and subtle this is chewy and robust, earthy and rich, sweet and smoky. It may not be as well known as some cured meats you know but don’t let that stop you. Like all their meats, La Quercia’s speck is made from hogs raised naturally, without hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics.

M-SPK 3 oz sliced $14 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Nduja Nduja is dry cured like salami but the result is silky and spreadable, like spicy pork butter. Punchy yet smooth with hot Calabrian chiles.

M-NAN-2 6 oz $17 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Heritage Turkeys from Frank Reese and Bill Niman There are a handful of farmers who, in the past twenty years, have been instrumental in changing the course of America’s foodways and this year we've got two of them. Their names may not be wellknown to most people, but you can say them to almost anyone in the food world and they’re instantly recognized: Frank Freese and Bill Niman.

If you’ve tasted, bought—or just read about—old breed turkeys in the last ten years it’s been thanks to Frank Reese’s work. He’s been the most important farmer to revive and raise turkey breeds like Bourbon Red and Bronze at his Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Lindsborg, Kansas.

Bill Niman, who's no longer part of his namesake Niman Ranch, has had a similar effect on beef and pork. He's now working with heritage turkeys, too, at his new company BN Ranch.

Why is this all important? Well, to start with, the modern Thanksgiving turkey is a bit of a monster. It’s been bred to have a gigantic breast and little else. (The breast gets so big, in fact, the turkey can’t breed naturally.) As everything else got pushed aside in favor of the breast, out went its disease fighting genetics. Today’s commercial turkey is typically raised on a daily cocktail of antibiotics, without which it would succumb to the illnesses common in high-density feedlot operations. Those are all bad news. But, perhaps its worst sin is at the table: it’s bland. Commercial turkeys taste like salt and water, with very little turkey flavor to mention.

Not so with Frank and Bill's turkeys. They are full-flavored birds, rich with flavor and never mooshy in texture. They’re also not extreme, like eating wild game. It’s the kind of turkey that everyone at the table is going to enjoy. For many, it’ll be the first time they’ve tasted the real thing, and they’ll be fighting for seconds.

You might have any number of great reasons to buy one of these turkeys for your feast this year. They're sustainably raised. They support diverse genetics. They can have sex by themselves. But when you come back for one next year, it will be for one simple reason—they taste so good.

Frank Reese Bronze Turkeys M-BRT-12 M-BRT-16 FREE SHIPPING

12 lbs 16 lbs

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BN Ranch Bronze Turkeys M-BNT-12 M-BNT-16

12 lbs 16 lbs

$190 $250

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More Thanksgiving foods— including our hearth-baked breads— at zingermans.com.

Orders Order now, we’ll ship to arrive the week before Thanksgiving.

Birds This is not the pallid bird you’re used to. It will have color and obvious holes where its feathers have been plucked. Breasts are smaller. Neck and giblets are included.

CoOking Instructions included, though they cook up like a regular turkey.

turkey bath Turkey Brine Spice

A crazy good blend of seventeen spices that taste like fall exploded in your mouth. Mix with salt, sugar and water to make a brine for a supremely flavorful turkey.

Comes with recipe. One tin brines one turkey.

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The phrase “just like how grandma used to make it” can be used to describe Zingerman's pies without reservation. Each sports a fromscratch, freshly made, all-butter crust. We take the time grandma (maybe) took to do the extra steps that make the finished pie that much better, like pan-toasting pecans and walnuts so their flavors are fuller.

It takes time and energy—and money—to take the extra steps so most commercial kitchens don’t do it. These pies make extraordinary gifts for any occasion, and are a welcome treat at a Thanksgiving celebration. You really can taste the difference.

toasTed pEcAn The baker's favorite. Our pie bakers stuff in so many toasted pecans in this pie that there’s barely enough room to fit them in, let alone any of the caramelly brown-sugar custard. Warm, balanced flavor that’s never too sweet.

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

cranberRy Walnut Brown sugar custard, made with real butter, vanilla and Mauritian brown sugar, is mixed with a generous amount of toasted walnuts and tawny cranberries inside an all-butter crust. Nutty, sweet, rich and just a little tart, it’s as beautiful as it is addictive.

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

choCOlate CHeSs A traditional chocolate custard pie. Think of really great chocolate pudding all wrapped up in a crispy butter crust, and you’re almost there.

Made with a special dark chocolate from Mindo in Dexter, Michigan.

Velvety smooth, extremely rich dessert that’s got long-lasting flavor.

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

Cranberry Mustard

Cope's Dried Sweet Corn

Fire Parched Wild Rice

Made in a stone mill in Maine with plenty of local cranberries. It’s tart and spicy with a nice crunch from whole mustard seeds. Especially great on turkey sandwiches.

P-CBM 9 oz jar $15

It’s my personal mission to put this on as many Thanksgiving dinner tables as I can. Buy a tin to make the best creamed corn you’ll ever eat, guaranteed. Recipe included.

P-CRC 7½ oz, serves 8 $14

If you want to serve a traditional American food that will knock your family’s socks off, try this. It makes your standard wild rice taste like cardboard rocks. One of America's oldest traditional foods.

P-CAS 1 lb bag, serves 8-10 as a side $28

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Roasted Calabrian Figs Franco Rao’s figs are a once-a-year event that you want to hear about—and taste. We fly in a few hundred of these beauties, featuring a roasted, caramel-sweet flavor that’s irresistible.

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