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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

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cAlabrian citrus

The Favella Masseria Ranch is located near Sibari in Southern Italy, which, if you’re up on ancient history, you might recognize as the place where the Sybarites lived and ate famously well. These clementines in chocolate would have fit right into the Sybarites’ hedonistic tradition: spectacular Calabrian oranges, soaked in a constantly refreshed bath of simple syrup for three weeks, quartered, smothered in dark chocolate. Each piece is the size of a large chocolate truffle. If you slide it in your mouth all at once, the luscious orange syrup won’t drip down your chin. Better yet, be a Sybarite.

Let it drip.

P-CIC 12 piece box $35

These once unheard of figs have become one of our most popular holiday gifts. Tender, sweeter than usual Parito figs are dried, filled with soft chocolate truffle cream and a hint of liqueur, then dipped in dark chocolate. Each piece is individually wrapped. They’re as good as they sound, perhaps better, and beat your mall-bought chocolates any day.

The small sizes make great stocking stuffers, the bigger boxes perform amazing feats as host gifts. Any chocolate lover—which, let's face it, means 85% of humanity—will go gaga for them.

P-RAB-3 3 piece box $7 P-RAB-6 6 piece box $12 P-RAB-9 9 piece box $18 P-RAB 16 piece box $25

Calabria, in Southern Italy, is to citrus what Maine is to blueberries. You can find the same fruit elsewhere, but it’s rarely better. Fresh, aromatic Calabrian oranges are peeled by hand, all the pith is removed and the peels are cut into strips.

They’re candied in a sugar bath and put in an oven at low heat for hours and hours to caramelize slightly. Finally, they’re hand dipped into a bath of 40 percent cacao chocolate and laid out to cool. The slight bitterness of the orange peel is tamed by the smooth coat of chocolate, leaving a clean, fruity finish in your mouth as the chocolate melts. These will change your whole outlook on fruit chocolate snacks.

P-OCP 150 g box $20

Clementines in Chocolate from Italy

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Chocolate Dipped Figs from Spain

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Chocolate Covered Orange Peels from Italy

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Baked & Caked christmaS claSsIC 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 beans 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 (p. 40) 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

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A spicy sweet German tradition

Muraglia Olive Oil

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

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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's Crate

Experienced Crate

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

G-COW-A beginner $100

Gathers five rare and more adventurous cheese finds.

G-COW-B experienced $140

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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

our mOst poPulAr gift box The Weekender Gift Boxes

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

The Weekender, hand assembled in our cartooned gift box (illustrated) has a loaf of Zingerman’s Artisan Bread, a couple of Brownies (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

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

G-LWE long weekender $175

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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, Irish Brown Bread Crackers, Ginger Chimes Candies, Destrooper Belgian Butter Cookies, Mediterranean Olives, Spanish Marcona Almonds, Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans and a Zzang!® Handmade Candy Bar. G-ULT ultimate basket $200 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Zingerman’s Creamery 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. Flavors include: Vanilla, Dark Chocolate, Mint Chocolate Chip, Dulce de Leche, Peanut Butter, Raspberry Sorbet.

G-GEL six 12 ounce containers $115 G-GEL-KIT six gelati, plus cups, spoons, napkins $120 FREE SHIPPING

ARTISAN FOOD BOXES

Great Lakes Artisan Gift Box Peanut Butter from Koeze in Grand Rapids, Strawberry and Pepper Jam from Farrell Fruit in Ann Arbor, Freshly Roasted Zingerman's Coffee, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate bar from Vosges in Chicago, Marieke Gouda from Thorp, Wisconsin, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon from Wisconsin and our Pecan Raisin Bread.

G-GLA gift box $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

Tapas Gift Box

Zingerman's Artisan Gift Box

Perfect for parties: a well-edited collection of open-and-serve delectables.

Eat them as the Spanish do, as evening makes its way indoors, with a glass of wine. The gift box includes Zingerman's Farm Bread, La Quercia’s Cured Ham, Mediterranean Olives, Spanish Olive Oil and Anise Tortas, Spanish Marcona Almonds, Portuguese Sardines and Italian Taralli crackers.

G-TAP tapas gift box $80

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 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

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TOP NEW unparaLleLd quality Chocolates in Chelsea

We’ve never offered a ‘normal box of chocolates’ and thankfully, our streak is still alive. This assorted box of pralines and caramels is anything but normal. Made by hand here in Ann Arbor by Cathy Selin, a transplant from New York City (the Chelsea neighborhood to be exact, thus the name). Cathy does everything herself with painstaking detail (her ganache alone takes four days to create). Each box includes almond pralines and burnt sugar caramels, fifteen pieces in total.

Nestled in a handsome box, tied with a ribbon, it’s a classic gift for any chocolate lover. Aside from the Plaza Hotel and the Ritz Carlton, Zingerman’s is the only place you can find Cathy’s chocolates. Limited quantities.

P-CLC 15 piece box $60 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Goat’s Milk CarameLs

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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 five 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, 5.9 oz box $30 P-GMC-S 11 caramels, 3.2 oz box $16

Spain’s Ibérico hogs are the heirloom of heirloom hogs, the standard against which all great pork is measured. They are the black footed pigs of Southern Spain, the ones who roam wide in the Dehesa, foraging, rooting, and turning their loins and hams into the most prized cured meats in the world. In fact 99% of the time you find their pork cured (p.

14), not fresh ready to roast or grill. So lucky us. We've got a limited supply of thick loins 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.

M-IBL about 1¼ lbs, boneless $100

Farmstead Confection

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Ibérico Loin

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Peppy Peppermint Bark

Chocolate Covered Walnuts

Walnut Beigli

The holiday classic, made just for us with Belgian chocolate and allnatural organic peppermint.

P-PBK 220 g tin $20

France’s prized Perigord walnuts, toasted and topped with caramelized sugar and chocolate.

P-CCW 12 walnut box $16

A Hungarian cinnamon roll of sorts, made at Zingerman's Bakehouse with toasted walnuts and honey. Gift boxed.

G-BEI beigli serves 6-8 $35

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Stocking Stuffers Check out our holiday collection of sweet, odd and surprising stocking stuffers online at zingermans.com.

Bag of Chocolate Coal

BonBonBon Bon Bons

A Santa-red satchel holding six ultra-rich dark chocolate truffles dusted with cocoa powder.

Looks like lumps of coal. Tastes like a kiss from Ryan Gosling.

P-BCL 6 coal truffles bag $25

Chocolate bon bons in fantastic packaging.

Perfect for stuffing many stockings. From Detroit’s BonBonBon, one of the coolest new chocolatiers in the known gastro-universe.

P-BON 4 bonbonbon bon bons gift box $20

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Chocolate Caramelized Almonds

Vintage Tinned Fish

I’ll confess, it was the packaging that caught my eye first—and that's what makes it a great stocking stuffer. Brightly decorated Hungarian designed paper, folded into a colorful cone. Inside are a tasty collection of chocolate covered caramelized almonds.

P-CHA 100 g paper cone $20

Great tinned fish gets better with age, just like you.

We’ll gather two vintage tins of sardines and one of Ortiz tuna and slip them in our vintage seafood muslin bag. A superious stocking stuffer for the seafood adventurer on your gift list.

G-VFS 3 tins gift bagged $35

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it's always betTer with bacon When Pigs Fly: American Bacon Club Seven 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. Also, we don’t ship to Europe, so we get this one all to ourselves.

Each shipment contains bacon stories, histories, recipes and great bacon.

BONUS!

DOUBLE BONUS!

Bacon refrigerator magnet

Guide to Good Bacon Booklet

“The best thing I ever ate.”

Michael Symon

“Amazing

artisan bacon” Mario Batali

“Fantastic gift!”

Bobby Flay

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

Applewood Smoked Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

SIX MONTHS G-BAC-6 $189 Previous Bacons plus Virginia Dry Cured 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

Month 1 Nueske’s Applewood Smoked

Month 5 Broadbent Kentucky Bacon

Month 9 Hungarian Double Smoked

Quarter 2 Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

Month 2 Arkansas Peppered

Month 6 Cherrywood Smoked

Month 10 Newsom’s Dry Cured

Quarter 3 Tennessee Dry Cured Missouri Jowl Bacon

Month 3 Hickory Duroc

Month 7 Spencer’s Irish Style

Month 11 Benton’s Dry Cured

Quarter 4 Balinese Long Pepper Cherrywood Smoked

Month 4 Jowl and Steak

Month 8 Long Pepper

Month 12 Nodine’s Juniper

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– ARTISAN CHEESE CLUB – First Three Months

Next Three Months

Italy

Switzerland

Cave Aged Taleggio Parmigiano-Reggiano Fontina Val d’Aosta

L’Étivaz Antique Gruyère Extra Aged Emmentaler

France

USA

Ossau French Mountain Camembert Fort St. Antoine Comté

Great Lakes Cheshire Bayley Hazen Blue Pleasant Ridge Reserve

Spain

Britain

Farmhouse Mahón Aged Manchego Aged Zamorano

Raw Milk Stilton Montgomery’s Cheddar Kirkham’s Lancashire

G-CHE-3 $200

grand world tour de cheEse 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.

G-CHE-6 $390

FREE SHIPPING – BREAD CLUB – Three Month Bread Memberships 1 loaf per month 2 loaves per month

FOR the love OF THE LOAF Bread of the Month Club Our bread is magical. When you walk into Zingerman’s Delicatessen it’s the first thing you see. It’s what you smell.

You can’t resist when you’re invited to taste. If you’re worried that someone will think you’re a little crazy for sending bread through the mail, it may reassure you to know that you’re not alone. We send thousands of loaves to bread lovers nationwide. It’s considered by many to be some of the finest bread made anywhere. A real treat.

G-1-3 $70

G-2-3 $100

Roadhouse Bread

Roadhouse & Sourdough

Paesano

Chile Cheddar & Paesano

Chocolate Sourdough

Chocolate Sourdough & Farm Bread

Six Month Memberships 1 loaf per month

2 loaves per month

G-1-6 $139

G-2-6 $200

Roadhouse Bread Paesano Chocolate Sourdough Farm Bread Better Than San Francisco Sourdough Jewish Rye

Roadhouse & Sourdough Chile Cheddar & Paesano Chocolate Sourdough & Farm Bread Parmesan Pepper & Jewish Rye 8-Grain 3-Seed & Cinnamon Raisin Pecan Raisin & French Mountain Bread

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Zingerman's premier Club Culinary Adventure Society The right gift for that friend or client who thinks they're the Indiana Jones of the culinary world. No rolling boulders here, but four times a year we’ll send a big box of eight to ten 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. Or maybe the latest invention from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, only available in Ann Arbor. All foods in the Culinary Adventure Society will be exclusively selected for its members. We’ll include a collection of 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 ADVENTURES SOCIETY– 1 Time G-1-Z $175

2 Times G-2-Z $325

Winner of TV Food Network Food Club Award!

Culinary Society Shipments Arrive

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

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somethinG nEw evEry monTH The Food Explorer's Club The Food Explorer's Club is the cousin to Zingerman’s Culinary Adventure Society, the once-every-three-months dive into our latest food finds. Where the Society features upwards of ten items each shipment, Explorer's highlights just one or two. A brand new find. It may be an old food just discovered. Or a new one just born. Either way, it will be something that will be like electricity to a curious cook or food lover. We’ll include information on who made it and how to use it. The value of each installment may be more or less than the average, but we promise that over the course of every three months you’ll more than get your money’s—and tastebud’s—worth.

– FOOD EXPLORER'S CLUB – G-EXP-3 3 monthly installments $125

G-EXP-6 6 monthly installments $240

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G-EXP-12 12 monthly installments $475

Recently Explorer and Society Members Tried Seasonal springkaas cheese from Holland Sicilian sun dried tomatoes with anchovies Wild Thimbleberry preserves from Lake Superior Oak smoked olive oil from Spain

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The moSt dAngerOus foOD club In aMerIcA

Forbidden Foods Club A monthly subscription to diet-busting, religious-lawbreaking foods.

– FORBIDDEN FOODS CLUB – First 3 Months

Next 3 months

Kosher Katastrof

Vegan Villains

Broadbent Sausage Arkansas Peppered Bacon Mo's Bacon Bar

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

Lactose Intolerance

Hypertensive Episode

G-FFC-3 $180

G-FFC-6 $350

Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese Farmhouse Gouda Cheese Great Lakes Cheshire Cheese

Sea Salt Topped Pecan Blondie Celtic Sea Salt Caramels Salt-cured Salami

High Fat Holiday

Know Carbs

Buenos Aires Dulce de Leche Brownie Rabitos Chocolate Covered Figs Manchester Double Cream Cheese

Paesano Bread Farm Bread 3 Pound Round Ginger Jump-up Molasses Cookie

FREE SHIPPING “My favorite store in the cosmos.”

Jim Harrison

“Each time a new Zingerman's catalog arrives in my mailbox, I go a little bonkers with want.”

John T. Edge

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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 – Three Months

Six Months

G-MEAT-3 $180

G-MEAT-6 $350

Month 1 Salami Seduction Crespone and Borsellino

Month 4 Cheeky Guanciale and Jowl Bacon

Month 2 Bacon Two Ways Applewood Smoked and Arkansas Peppered

Month 5 Three Little Pigs Prosciutto Americano, Smoked Berkshire Ham and Speck

Month 3 Instant Deli Corned Beef and Pastrami

Month 6 Southern Breakfast Benton’s Bacon and Broadbent Sausage

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Chanukah Gifts 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. Quantities limited.

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

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

CHanukah's sweets Chanukah Gift Box

Keep them noshing during the holiday with our printed gift box stuffed with a gift box of Rugelach and Hamentaschen, a Chocolate Menorah and Chocolate Gelt.

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

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Chocolate Menorah by Michel Cluizel We’ve been hunting for Chanukah gifts like these for years and we finally found this Kosher work of art from master French Chocolatier, Michel Cluizel. Each candle is cast in solid dark (55%) chocolate from the base to the flame. A fun, clever and delicious way to celebrate the holiday. About 6 inches wide, 5 inches tall, 100% delicious. Quantities limited.

P-MNR chocolate menorah $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Create your own assortment of Zingerman's big brownies, stellar cookies, creamy scones and cosmic cakes. 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.

Magic Brownie Classic with toasted walnuts.

Black Magic Classic minus the nuts.

Ginger Jump-Up

Muscovado brown sugar and chunks of crystallized ginger.

Oatmeal Raisin

Buenos Aires

Maple syrup, organic oats and giant red flame raisins

Townie

Big pieces of chocolate and toasted walnuts

Brownie sandwiching a layer of dulce de leche.

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.

$36

Chocolate Chunk

Triple Chocolate

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

Sky's the Lemon

With fresh lemon juice, lemon zest, and candied lemon.

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Vanilla Real Madagascar vanilla.

Chocolate Mint

Currant

The classic, with tender dried currants.

Lemon

Luscious peppermint buttercream topped with fondant mint leaf.

With candied lemon zest.

Raspberry

Spicy, crystallized ginger.

Raspberry buttercream topped with a fondant raspberry.

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Ginger Cheddar Herb Cheddar & fresh rosemary.

Bacon Cheddar

Nueske's bacon and Vermont cheddar.

Country Scone

Organic oats, pecans and red flame raisins.

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Spanish meat chOcolaTE Ibérico Bellota Pork Loin

Shocking. There’s no other way to describe the experience of first tasting cured bellota pork—in this case, the loin made from heirloom Ibérico pigs who’ve feasted on acorns (bellotas) the last months of their lives. 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 meat chocolate on your tongue—it immediately puddles, the flavor releasing itself in the process.

M-LOM about 1.1 lbs $150

Midwest meat Nostalgia Summer Sausage

Summer sausage—regardless of the season—is as much a part of the culinary culture of the Midwest as corn on the cob. The sausage is meaty and sliceable enough for a sandwich, sturdy enough for an appetizer. Made

by Underground Meats in Madison, Wisconsin it's great tasting food without pretention or posture.

M-SSS 10 oz piece $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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and then there's spreadable meat 'Nduja from La Quercia

'Nduja is a specialty of Calabria in Italy, where they love chiles and anything spicy. It's a salami of sorts, but rather than coarsely grinding meat and making it sliceable, this is ground fine enough to be spreadable. Traditionally, this would have been made from the “poor cuts” of preserved pork. Enter La Quercia, American Prosciutto makers in Norwalk, Iowa. Herb and Kathy Eckhouse make their 'Nduja from prosciutto and speck, the polar opposite of poor cuts. The meats are ground and blended with red pepper to make a spreadable treat that spices up all sorts of dishes. Toss a dollop with pasta, spread it on a burger, vegetables, or good crusty bread. Any dish that could use a little character is fair game. It’s spicy, but not terribly hot, so go to town.

M-NDJ-S 5 oz package $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Tasso Ham

Speck Smoked Cured Loin

Broadbent Kentucky Sausage

In Cajun country tasso ham is used to flavor the heck out of stews, sandwiches, eggs and more. Covered with white pepper, marjoram, allspice and chiles then smoked over pecan wood for half a day.

M-TSM 8 oz piece $20

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.

M-SPK 3 oz sliced $14

Fresh pork, sage and red pepper, stuffed into a cloth bag, smoked over green hickory and air dried for a week. Cooks up loose and crumbly. Our staff's favorite sausage bar none.

M-BRB 1 lb $12

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Cured ham is probably the oldest form of charcuterie—and one of the tastiest. In practice, it's simple. Salt the ham, let it hang for a year, then eat. Like with anything simple the raw ingredient is key. Find a pig with full flavor and you're much more likely to get a ham that tastes great. We carry cured hams from across the flavor spectrum in sliced packages or in big, whole pieces you can slice yourself. A big ham lasts for months and is a stellar centerpiece— and an amazing gift for a ham aficionado. We include care and slicing instructions. We've also got a ham stand that helps prop up bone-in hams, check it out online.

Prosciutto Americano

Berkshire Surry-ano

Ibérico Bellota

If you want an introduction to cured ham you couldn’t do much better than start with La Quercia's Prosciutto Americano.

It’ll remind you of Italian prosciutto but the flavors are more forward with more of a mineral tang to the finish. Made from Niman Ranch naturally raised pork.

M-PAM whole, deboned, unsliced,

about 7 lbs $325 M-AME 3 oz, sliced $14

Sam Edwards III, third generation Virginia cured meat master, hickory smokes then ages big Berkshire hams for over two years, double what almost anyone else does. A pork flavor bomb like no other. The hogs are all raised sustainably under the guidance of Heritage Foods.

M-BHH 17 lbs, bone in $400 M-SBH 4 oz, sliced $22

The heirloom breed hog of all heirloom breeds, the Ibérico hog of Spain is revered among all fans of cured meats.

Even in Spain eating this is a special event. We offer the shoulder cut whole or rear sliced, both from roaming hogs that feast on acorns, which makes for melt-in-the mouth meat.

M-IPB 10 lbs, whole, with bone $500 M-SIB 1½ oz, sliced $35

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Zingerman’s Big Box of Meat

When I’m away from Ann Arbor for more than a few days I start to miss Zingerman’s food. Coffee and bread first, then more subtle longings surface. Like cured and cooked meats. This is a collection of my favorites from our deli case. Just set out some cheese, vegetables, bread and some sliced meats for a satisfying feast. Our Zingerman's shopping bag includes a pound each of Pastrami, our Classic Black Angus Lean Corned Beef, Broadbent Sausage, Usinger’s Liverwurst, Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon, plus a La Quercia's Borsellino Salami and Prosciutto Americano. Over five pounds of cured cow and hog, rounded out with a loaf of Bacon Peppered Farm Bread. Requires a strong will not to overdo it. In case of excess, we’ll throw in some Alka Seltzer®.

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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. Might as well get three or four. 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 Smoked Bacon 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

Allan Benton's Dry Cured The most intense bacon we carry, definitely not for everyone.

Prized by chefs, including David Chang of Momofuku.

M-BBT 1 lb sliced $20

Nodines Juniper Slabs of bacon smoked over hardwood sawdust liberally spiced with dried juniper berries.

Delicate.

M-JUN 1 lb sliced $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Cherrywood 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 $18 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Arkansas Peppered Hickory smoked and wrapped in a sweet and spicy jacket of black peppercorns.

M-ARK 12 oz sliced $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Spencer's Back Bacon Back bacon is basically pork loin with a bit of the side bacon attached, dry cured, then smoked. For Brits and Irish, this is proper bacon.

M-IRI 8 oz sliced $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Sam Edwards Dry Cured Berkshire

Coated with aromatic Balinese long pepper. Exotic and down home at the same time.

M-ALP 1 lb sliced $20

Edwards' dry cured bacon is smoked about 24 hours over green hickory. The flavor is very rich, very deep, with special thanks due to the excellent heirloom Berkshire pork.

M-ECB 12 oz sliced $24

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soft and sweet Borsellino Salamis

La Quercia's borsellino sausage is soft, sweet, porky and even a little earthy. Somewhere between a quarter and a half-dollar in diameter, its natural casing is stuffed with pork that's coarsely ground, liberally littered with morsels of fat. They're mild but substantial, without the heavy salting that you often find in other salamis. Serve them on a cheese plate or toss chunks into pasta or salads. Throw one into your backpack the next time you head out for a hike, borsellino can go for hours—or days—without refrigeration. Like all their meats, La Quercia's salamis are made from hogs raised naturally, without hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics.

M-DSG 6 oz classic $12 M-SDS 6 oz piccante slightly spicy $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the quiet american Salami Americano

Many Americanized European foods trade subtlety for boldness, like American small-batch beers, which use loads of hops and explode with aroma. Not so with La Quercia’s Salami Americano. It’s not exactly retiring, but it isn’t all up in your face, either. What it has is a gentle, complex flavor, a flavor that makes you reach for another bite, again and again. Dry cured and aged for three months, it’s made from cuts of Duroc and Berkshire-Lancaster hogs. There are fine pieces of melt-in-your-mouth fat spread throughout, giving it a buttery texture. Very meaty with just a hint of garlic and pepper.

M-SLA 1 lb piece $28 M-SLA-S 3 oz sliced $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the next bEsT thing Is preTty goOd Crespone and Felino Salamis

Living in America we are forbidden from importing Cuban cigars, Iranian saffron (at least for now)—and Italian salami. The salami ban makes little sense to me, but the FDA makes the rules. We're left with the next best thing which, to be honest, has gotten quite good: the cured meats from the recipes of Francois Vecchio. Crespone, made in the style of Verona, and Felino, the king of Italian salamis. Both are coarsely cut creations, with thick, natural pork casings. The casings let the meat age more slowly. Time costs money, of course, but it’s worth it, offering up a salami that's sweeter, more soft and succulent and more perfumed than any around. We ship them whole. You trim the casing (it’s OK to eat, but I prefer to peel it off) and slice what you'd like.

M-CRE crespone, about 2/3 lb $27 M-FEL felino, about 2 lbs $65

other salamis Wild Boar

M-WLD 5½ oz

Cacciatore M-ACA

$18

6 oz

$13

M-CHO 8 oz

$14

Chorizo

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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 fourthgeneration 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. Kosher.

Bonito Loin

P-ORT 112 g tin $8

4 or more $6.50 each P-ORT-12 12 tin case $72

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

P-ORT-JAR 220 g jar $22

2 or more $20 each

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Yellowfin Loin

P-YLL 6 oz jar $17

2 or more $15 each

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Bonita Ventresca (Belly)

Yellowfin Ventresca (Belly) P-YVT

110 g tin $17 2 or more $15 each

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P-TUN 110 g tin $24

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"We savored Ortiz straight from the can, like caviar."

Cooking Light

Connoisseur's Corner, seafood from Ramon Peña

nifty trIcK

clOse ShavE

Octopus is a tricky fish to tin. We’ve never sold it and it’s not from lack of trying. I’ve probably tasted octopus from twenty different canneries. Those samples suffered a range of maladies: overly gelatinous, too cat-foody, or, they had what I refer to as “rubber hose phenomenon.” I came to Ramon Peña’s octopus with low expectations born from experience. What I tasted was a treat, a surprise that ranked at the top of my new food list when I discovered them last year. Peña’s round tin holds over a dozen slices of tentacle, suckers intact. Octopus is never a melt-in-your mouth food and these are appropriately meaty with a satisfying ticky tacky bite that never once veers to garden hose. They also possess a scent of the sea so clear it’s disarming. A tin serves four as an appetizer. And since one of those four people probably doesn't eat octopus there’s more for you.

P-ROC 4.9 oz tin $30

Razor clams, named for the way their shell resembles a straight razor—are the red headed stepchild of the clam world. Littlenecks, manilas and cockles get all the attention. Razor clams languish, rarely seen on restaurant menus or at the fish monger’s. Lucky for us Ramon Peña specializes in overlooked sea creatures, especially ones that are tasty. And razor clams are indeed tasty. Their shape makes their texture a bit different than a regular clam, more like octopus or squid. The flavor is deep and briny. Tinned simply in olive oil these are a great gift for a curious seafood seeker.

P-RCL 138 g tin $39

Octopus from Ramon Peña

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Razor Clams from Ramon Peña

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Portuguese Sardines

Portuguese trinity

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. One thing to know is there are actually dozens of different fish sold as sardines in the U.S. Most are either brislings from Norway or herring from the North Atlantic. While they aren't bad, they don't come close to the flavor of true pilchards like these. And unlike Norwegian sardines, these are never smoked, so the full flavor of the fish comes through. Four or five tender, perfect sardines, come nested in a tin of olive oil. We offer standard (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. (To some folks who are used to a briny, edgy flavor they will come off as softer, rounder.)

P-SAR 125 g classic (illustrated) $7

4 or more $5.50 each P-SEV 110 g extra virgin $9

4 or more $7.50 each

Portuguese Squid Three squids, cooked just till tender, the bodies stuffed with tentacles so they almost look like seafood sausages.

Which is pretty much what they are. A little smoky, a little sweet, you can open the tin, pop ‘em in your mouth as is, chop them into pieces for an appetizer, or add them to a little warm chickpea salad with cilantro. The packaging is outstanding, a great gift for a seafood fanatic or someone who gets giddy every time you say “tapas”.

P-SCA 110 g tin $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Portuguese Mackerel Firm, perfect fillets of mackerel whose flavor is located somewhere between the sweetness of tuna and the richness of sardines. It’s rare to find tinned mackerel of this quality.

With olive oil P-MAC 125 g tin

4 or more tins

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With piri piri hot sauce P-MPI 90 g tin $8

4 or more tins $6 each

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goinG meta Gift Tin of Tinned Fish

If you happen to shop at Ortiz's factory fish shop in Ondarroa, Spain you can pick up a spun metal gift tin decorated with Ortiz art. (If you remember old potato chip cans it’s about that size).

We brought them to Ann Arbor and we’re filling the tin with—what else?—tinned fish. A collection of our favorites, including Ortiz’s ridiculously popular Bonito tuna, Tuna-stuffed Piquillo peppers, Portuguese Sardines and Mackerel, Anchovies and Squid. Empty the little tins into various dinners and snacks, save the big tin for holding secrets.

G-FISH tin of tinned fish $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Red truffles

Anchovy Stuffed Peppers Almost as hard to find, similarly shaped and nearly as expensive as truffles. Anchovies and capers stuffed into slightly spicy cherry peppers. Layers of flavors unfold on your tongue.

Sweetness at first, then mild heat, all enhanced by the suave saltiness of anchovies.

P-AUP 180 g, 8 peppers $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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“A peanut brittle so simple, yet so compulsively munchable, that it could reverse the decades-long trend of brittle under-appreciation.”

Kate Bernot, Serious Eats

Two takes on Peanut Brittle Zingerman's Candyman Charlie Frank isn’t reinventing the wheel, just making it more delicious. This is stove-top brittle, not factory gristle, with butterscotch brown flavor, sharp, crackly texture and a savory finish of roasted peanut. One served up classic style, the other broken into shards and enrobed in chocolate.

CLASSIC PEANUT

“...all the deep butterscotch flavor of traditional brittle but none of the teeth-cracking stickiness.”

The O List

CHOCOLATE COVERED

P-BRT-S 4.4 oz classic brittle $10 P-BRT 12 oz classic $20

P-CBR-S 4 oz chocolate P-CBR 12 oz chocolate

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that’s my jam Coconut Jam

Across Southeast Asia they make Srikaya (coconut jam) or simply Kaya. In Malaysia, the name means “rich;” but a more detailed translation might also include "smooth," "creamy" and "more please." This version is made closer to home, in San Francisco.

Cristina Widjaja modeled her jam on her mother's recipe. She slow cooks coconut milk, egg yolks and sugar. Its flavor is surprisingly complex for something with so few ingredients. It is deep and sweet like coconut custard, with a texture like lemon curd.

P-CJM 8 oz jar $17

caramel knowledge Béquet Caramels from Montana

Robin Béquet says, "There are a great many products easier to make than caramel. In the blink of an eye you can go from potential greatness to complete disaster.” That's the voice of experience talking. In the last decade, in going from a home kitchen operation to an awardwinning caramel maker, Robin has had a lot of experimental disasters. But we get to taste the benefits of her hard lessons. Her caramels are widely recognized as some of the best in the country. The silver, ribboned gift box is filled with two of our favorite types: sea salt and chipotle pepper. The bag is celtic sea salt caramel.

P-PEQ 11 oz ribboned box $38 P-CSS 4 oz bag salted $10 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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no trojan horse Coop’s Hot Fudge

The jar caught my eye first. A wax seal drips from the top looking like some fudge leaked out of the vat. When I see clever packaging like this I’m often suspicious. It can be a Trojan horse for bad food. To my surprise the hot fudge inside was good. Not just good, pretty great. Sporting just six ingredients, all of which I promise you’ll recognize, Marc Cooper’s hot fudge is milky and chocolaty without being overly sweet.

Microwave for less than a minute and you’re in business.

P-HHF 10.6 oz jar $16 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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CranbErRy PecAn

Loaded with dried cranberries and toasted pecans, this loaf is the kissing cousin to our extremely popular Pecan Raisin Bread.

Dense, chewy and crunchy, cranberry pecan has a tart tang that’s very enjoyable. It’s delicious served with fresh cheese like a cream cheese or a young goat cheese. And—stay with me here— it’s an excellent shell for an adventurous chicken salad sandwich.

B-CRA 1¼ lb loaf $17 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

chocolate cherry

chocolate sourdough Craquelin 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 rooms will fill with sensuous smells—warm chocolate, good bread. Eat it as is. Or spread a layer of fresh ricotta or cream cheese on top. 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 loaf $25

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

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

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

B-CHO 1¼ lb handmade loaf $18

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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 on 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

bREAkfast breads

the bakers' crown

Toast ain’t just toast when it’s made from Zingerman’s Bakehouse bread. 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 Sourdough.

G-PEA peasant gift box $45

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Bread-fest Gift Box

Zingerman’s claSsics Deli Deluxe Bread Box

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 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

Rustic Peasant Loaf Gift Box

ofF the beaTen path

Sweet & Spicy Bread Box

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

That special place

Carbo-overloader

Two of our most pleasing sweet loaves—Cinnamon Raisin and Chocolate Sourdough—and one healthy one, 8 Grain 3 Seed, to mollify your guilt. All packed into our fun, illustrated gift box.

Each loaf works from breakfast to dessert.

G-SLM sweet loaf $40

Three of our most satisfying savory loaves—Roadhouse, Peppered Bacon Farm and Chile Cheddar—packed into our fun, illustrated gift box. Eat all three and you’ll be in a food coma. And for all you food innovators out there, if you made a triple decker sandwich with one slice of each bread you might be on your way to a Nobel prize.

G-BBC food coma gift box $40

Sweet Loaf o' Mine Gift Box

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pePpered bacon farm

parmesan pepPEr heretic's loaf

We used to bake this on special occasions and we’d get so many orders we'd run out of bacon. It’s Farm Bread dough with Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon and Tellicherry black pepper.

Every bite has a bit of sourdough tang and a lot of the sweet, smoky meatiness of bacon, plus a little spice. I’m sure it makes great sandwiches, but I’ve never had a loaf around long enough to try.

B-BAC ¾ lb handmade loaf $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 raw milk 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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bread geography

Michigan Maple Cutting Board

Everyone from Michigan can skip ahead.

For the rest of you, a couple brief notes.

One, this is the shape of the lower half of Michigan; it looks like a mitten. Two, Michiganders love this fact. For example, ask someone from Michigan where they’re from. They’ll lift their right hand like they’re swearing in at court. With their left index finger they’ll point to somewhere on the palm and say “here.” We consider this behavior completely normal. This cutting board—or serving board, it can do double duty—makes a great gift for a Michigander, especially one who has been expatriated. The company that makes it has been in business since 1881. They are from Michigan. The maple wood is from Michigan. It’s especially handy for serving Michigan cheese and cherries. Apologies to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we don’t have a cutting board for you yet.

P-MIT 17 x 13 inches $85

Deluxe bread warmer Pewabic Bread Warming Tile

Detroit's storied tileworks, Pewabic Pottery, has made striking, naturalistic Arts & Craft tiles for over a century. They grace churches and mantles from Palmer Park to New York's Upper East Side. Since earthenware tile holds heat well it makes a natural food warmer. When you heat bread, keep this beautiful, fawn-colored tile in the oven and add it to the bread basket you put on the table. It'll keep the slices toasty all dinner long. Unwarmed, it also does duty as a handsome trivet.

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roadhouse bread

french mouNtain

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

I’d have a tough time picking between this and Farm Bread for top spot on my European-style favorites list. French Mountain Bread has a chestnut colored crust nearly a quarter inch thick, a dense wheaty crumb inside and a toasty, long lasting flavor. It’s totally terrific for toasting. We offer it in two sizes, a ¾ kilo loaf (about 1.65 lbs) that’s good for munching and a 2 kilo (about 4½ lbs, illustrated) work of art.

I love the 2K loaf. A good foot and a half across and four or five inches high, it’s decorated with a hand-cut “Z.” The size is significant because bigger loaves almost always taste better. Baked to last, you’ll still be enjoying 2K Mountain Bread ten days after the loaf has left our oven.

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

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Vollkornbrot

8-Grain 3-Seed Bread

Dinkelbrot

Very traditional, very dense and chewy German bread with a very loyal following in Ann Arbor and around America.

Made from rye meal, rye flour, sunflower seeds, sea salt, yeast and rye sour, the Vollkornbrot is chewy, malty and really delicious. Wheat free.

B-VOL 2 lb loaf $7.50

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

One hundred percent spelt grain loaf made with loads of sunflower seeds.

Like Vollkornbrot it's German-inspired.

Dense, moist, delicious, different. Excellent for sandwiches. I enjoy devouring loaves armed only with good butter and sometimes a toaster.

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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.

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paesano Sourdough 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

Regularly shipped to the city on the bay.

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.

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Traditional Jewish rye bread is still an endangered American species. Twenty-two 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

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southern Italy Peranzana from Molise

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

NortheRn Italy Roi from Liguria

Mellow yet rich in its unfiltered state, it’s delicately delicious, feathery light and perfect for pesto making. Its subtle, lingering flavors leave you smiling long after you’ve tasted it. I use it for dressing fresh fish or a delicate salad.

O-ROI-500 500 ml $25 O-ROI 1 liter $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Central italy

Podere di Pillore

From the hills above Florence. Oil-maker Alberto Passigli gets the big picture and the details of olive-oil making right. The olive groves are on well-drained slopes and pruned vigorously by his foreman who’s been tending the trees for over five decades. Made entirely from Alberto’s own organic olives, the oil is stored in a series of traditional, antique terra cotta vessels, some over 100 years old. It’s hand bottled to order with labels printed at the venerable Florentine shop of Pineider, the source for Dickens’ stationery. It’s one of the only oils in Tuscany that was bottled in 2014 after a disastrous harvest.

O-POD 500 ml $45 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Spain

Mariano Sanz’s Terese Arrojo Oil

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Mariano only makes oil when it’s good and some years we go with no harvest. This year it’s back and it’s delicious. Terese Arrojo is an utterly unique, unfiltered extra virgin organic oil from the rarely visited Sierra de Gredos, the wild, sparsely settled mountain region of Spain not far from the Portuguese border. No pressing is used in the production, so yields are half the commercial norm. How do you make olive oil without pressing olives? Mariano bottles only the “flower of the oil,” which are the drips that fall naturally from crushed olives. It’s bottled unfiltered, leaving it lusciously cloudy in the bottle, my favorite kind of oil. Great on salads, with grilled meats of all sorts or on bean dishes. Better yet, just pour it on a nice thick slice of toasted Farm Bread, sprinkle on a pinch of sea salt and add a couple slices of ripe tomatoes and enjoy the fruits of Mariano’s labor.

O-MAR 500 ml $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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sOUTHERN iTALIan Citrus

Agrumato Lemon Oil

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

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france Maussane Olive Oil

"Lush"

New York Times

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

Holiday Only 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. I rarely sell things based on packaging but for this I’ve made an exception. It’s stunning. Ceramic artists create each bottle by hand, about three per hour, which makes up quite a bit of the cost. The glaze is a vibrant, seasonally appropriate red. 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.

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a love aFfair 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.

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One Family's Vinegar

why we carry the vinegar of one balsamic maker While we carry different vinegars and olive oils from different farms and acetaias we only carry one family's everyday balsamic: La Vecchia Dispensa. 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. 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 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 caramelization takes you on a wild ride of flavor.

We have a stellar collection of legendary tradizionali balsamics online.

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The Balsamic Vinegars of La Vecchia Dispensa

8 Year Aged

V-8YR 250 ml bottle $25

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V-16Y 250 ml bottle $45

30 Year Aged V-30Y 100 ml bottle $50

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

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

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white balsAmIc, sort of

Agrodolce White Balsamic Vinegar

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.

V-AGV 500 ml $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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IRresiStible italIAn fruits

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—everyone wanted seconds and my family is big—and 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 each holiday and their fans gobble them up. This year for the first time, I've got a new fruit—soft, tender apricots, hand harvested and rushed into a simple syrup bath within hours. The rushing 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.

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pantry classics

ThrEe of our claSsics, foOds we've caRried fOr years THat find in hunDReds OF our cUstomers' cupbOards

Wild Artichokes

Koeze Peanut Butter

Macroom Irish Oatmeal

From southern Italy, wild spring artichokes, picked when they're the size of a chestnut, barely blanched so they're firm and chewy, in olive oil. These Italian treat are super in pasta, with cheese, tossed with salads or on an antipasto platter.

P-ART 175 g, about 30 pcs $20

The peanut butter that's become a legend. Unimproved since 1925, it's simply ground, blanched, roasted peanuts and a bit of sea salt. What all peanut butter aspires to be. One of our all-time best sellers.

P-BUT 17 oz jar smooth $9.50

The Walton family has been milling oats in Ireland since the 1700s, and they still use old stone wheels, which I think leave the oats better tasting than steelcut. The result is a coarse meal that has its natural oils still intact (making the meal darker than other oatmeal).

Incredibly flavorful.

P-OAT 2 lb bag $14

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

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

Italian cheeses both famous and secret that taste astounding, including our longtime favorites like Farmhouse Parmigiano-Reggiano, Gorgonzola Naturale and 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, Raw Milk 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 domestic cheeses, like Clothbound Cabot Cheddar, Marieke Gouda and others that are remaking the image of American cheese.

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

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Italy, America, France and England.

Four of the world's great cheesemaking countries. And— at least in my opinion—four of their greatest cheeses.

Parmigiano-Reggiano Not all the wheels that bear the world famous Parmigiano-Reggiano name are created equal. There are big differences from one to the next. This is both a success story and a problem for the cheese. It's been so effectively marketed to the world everyone knows it. A huge success. But it's been sold as one cheese when there are big differences in how different farmers feed their animals, how the cheese is made and cared for, and how it's aged. We tasted dozens of different producers to select ours, and it's our all-time best selling cheese bar none. It has a really rich, wonderfully complex flavor with a lovely, long finish and none of that bitterness or mouthburn that often mars the final flavor of other Parmesans. Wrapped well, it lasts for weeks.

C-PAR 1 lb hand cut for dinner $32

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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. Since we've been working so closely with the maker we have the opportunity to select specific days of cheese, tasting from a series of different days of production to pick the most flavorful of the bunch.

C-PRR ½ lb hand cut wedge $20

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

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Raw Milk Stilton The only traditional raw milk Stilton in the world. British cheddar may have conquered America and subsequently lost some of its English-ness, but Stilton remains a national treasure. An exquisite, legendary blue with broad, buttery flavors that linger well into the evening. Made by Joe Schneider, selected by Neal’s Yard Dairy just for us.

C-TCH ½ lb hand cut wedge $23

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At Zingerman's Creamery, cheesemakers Aubrey and John craft a handful of our customer's favorite cheese spreads. Made with fresh local milk and none of the gums or stabilizers you find in other spreadable cheeses, they taste bright, tangy and alive. Super for brunches, lunches or late night snacks.

Pimento Cheese Spread

Hand Ladled Cream Cheese

Pimento cheese is a salty, tangy spread of Cabot Vermont cheddar, Hellmann’s mayo, pimento peppers and spices. Our most popular spread.

C-PMC 6 oz tub $9

Made like cream cheese was a hundred years ago. Hand ladled to protect its delicate texture. Softer, lighter, fresher tasting than any cream cheese you've tried.

C-ZCC 6 oz tub $8

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Liptauer Hungarian Cheese Spread

Fresh Goat Cream Cheese

Pillowy fresh farm cheese spiked with garlic, Hungarian paprika, capers, toasted caraway and just a touch of anchovy. Moderately spicy.

C-LIP 6 oz tub $10

Made almost the same way as our cow's milk cream cheese, above, but with fresh local goat's milk to give it a tangier, earthier flavor—but without any "goatiness."

C-GCC 6 oz tub $9

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Make your Own MoZzARElLa Home Cheesemaking Kit We’ve been selling this home cheese making kit at our Creamery in Ann Arbor and online for a while now, and folks have been, well, eating it up.

Easy to follow instructions make it a great gift for kids, cheese lovers and families that cook together. Every box comes with rennet and citric acid— enough for 30 batches of cheese—as well as 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. My first attempt produced a fine looking mozzarella ball that I quickly turned into a salad with tomatoes, fresh basil and olive oil. Easy and delicious!

P-HCK makes 30 batches $37 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

cheese party in a box Holiday Cheese Course Gift Box

We'll hand cut and wrap three of our top American cheeses the day they ship to you: Pleasant Ridge Reserve, Cabot Clothbound Cheddar and Zingerman's Double Cream Manchester.

We'll also stash some spiced pecans and a loaf of Roadhouse Bread in the cartoon gift box, too.

About a pound and a half of cheese, it'll serve a dozen for appetizers or after dinner—or maybe a bit of both.

G-HOL gift box, serves 12 $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAYS

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Similar cheese. Different maker. Different style. Different flavor.

Here are two takes on Cheddar, Gouda and sheep's milk cheese.

They make an interesting contrast for a cheese fan, or, on a cheese tray for some friends, a delicious conversation piece.

More cheese online

clothbound cheddar

Cabot Montgomery’s English Clothbound Clothbound Cheddar The closest thing to the original ched American dar being made on the planet, made Cheddar Cloth-wrapped traditional cheddar from Cabot Farms and Jasper Hill in Vermont has a beefy, bold flavor. The texture is flakier and less rubbery than waxed cheddar since cloth permits the cheese to breath. Quite possibly America's best cheddar.

C-CCC by the lb $38 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

from a single herd of HolsteinFresians 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 by the lb $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

dutch gouda L'amuse Cow's Brabander Goat Gouda From the opposite end of Holland, the southMilk 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, almost like a dessert.

C-LAM by the lb $40

ern province of Brabant, home to many of the country's goat farms. Made from the pasteurized milk of Saanen goats, it's fresh tasting, with notes of caramel and cream and just a background hint of the chalky flavor usually found in goat cheese. Also selected by Betty Koster.

C-GGO by the lb $36

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sheep's milk cheese Basque Mountain Cheese In the flower-filled mountains the connect Spain with France, sheep's milk cheese is hand made in small drums, about ten pounds each.

Made and aged so the sheep's milk's sweetness stays intact, it's a hardy cheese but one that also tastes delicate.

C-FMT by the lb $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Essex Manchego In the center of Spain, on the hot, sun toasted plains of La Mancha, Manchego has been made for centuries. Not sweet like Basque cheese, this is earthy, animal cheese, with gutsy, savory flavors that can stand up to full-flavored food.

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

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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, La Quercia's 'Nduja, 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 gift box $130 FREE SHIPPING

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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 Our award-winning corned beef.

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 Camp Bacon is an annual festival of your favorite meat held right here in Ann Arbor, Michigan each June. In honor of the celebration of our Princes of Pork we pack our cartoon printed gift box with three of our most popular bacons: Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon from Wisconsin, Peppered Bacon from Arkansas and Broadbent’s Hickory Smoked Bacon from Kentucky; 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 $125 FREE SHIPPING

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Bite Sized, big flavored

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 assorted brownie bites $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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Awesome Office Supply

a new tAke On A holidAy claSsics Smoked Holiday Ham

Holiday gift hams don’t come any tastier than these. The heritage breed hogs are raised in the Midwest with access to the outdoors to root and roam and never receive antibiotics or hormones. The hams are cured with salt and maple sugar for two weeks then smoked over hickory. They are full of flavor, easy to enjoy. Just heat, slice and eat.

Berkshire Ham

Red Wattle Ham

A classic porky flavor that everyone loves, turned up about six notches.

M-BHC 4-5 lbs, boneless, serves 10 $65

The sweetest pork. With a thin ring of fat that melts in your mouth.

M-RWH 4-5 lbs, boneless, serves 10 $65

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Feeds fifteen or more in a way they will not forget soon. With this you can remotely host the best office party since that time someone snuck a magnum of Veuve Cliquot in the break room. Nosher-sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Macy's Cheesesticks, Olive Oil Tortas, six all-butter crispy Palmiers, Italian Biscotti, Zingerman's Virginia Peanuts, Freshly Roasted Zingerman’s Coffee ground for drip, Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Homemade Spiced Pecans, two Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and ten Brownie Bites.

G-OFF office supply gift box $150 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Zingerman’s monthly food clubs are the gift that they can’t forget. Mainly because super tasty food keeps arriving, month after month. You sign them up, pay once, and we’ll do the rest. We’ll happily re-arrange the arrival dates if they can’t be there for one of the shipments.

threE clubs iN one The Dabbler Food Club

A prize shipment from some of our top clubs: Breads, then Coffeecake, then our Food Explorer's.

THE DABBLER CLUB G-DAB-3 3 shipments $125 Month 1 Bread

Month 2 Coffeecake

Month 3 Food Explorer’s

Paesano, Roadhouse, Chocolate Sourdough from our Bakehouse

Our legendary walnut-andcinnamon Sourcream Coffeecake.

Nosher sized.

The latest, greatest finds from our far-flung food explorations.

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– FREQUENT FISH CLUB – 3 months

6 months

Tuna Teacher Ortiz tuna from the loin and belly cuts

Turf and Surf Anchovy stuffed cherry peppers and tuna stuffed piquillo peppers

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Sardine Exposé One from Portugal two from France (3 tins)

Two Ways to Anchovy Oil packed anchovies and ancient garum colatura oil

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.

Squeamish Extinguisher Squid and eel

Kissin’ Cousins Mackerel and Yellowfin tuna

G-FSH-3 $125

Frequent Fish Club

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G-FSH-6 $250 Includes 3 months plus

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continuous CakeS club Coffeecake of the Month Club

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

"I get my coffeecake from Zingerman's." Mario Batali

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

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

Six Months

G-C-6 $230 Previous three plus Tea Cake Lemon Poppyseed New Deli

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Olive Oil, from $125

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Baker's, from $99

Weaknesses, from $189

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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

Each lasts for two weeks on the counter.

Frozen they’ll hibernate for months.

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

–LARGE FRESSER–

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

GINGERBREAD

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

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

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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–SMALL NOSHER–

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

LEMON POPPYSEED

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

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

–SMALL NOSHER– Serves 5-7 Cartoon box $45 Wooden crate $50

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OLIVE OIL

Toasted almonds, lemon zest—nearly a whole lemon's worth per cake—and lots of extra-virgin olive oil. Olive oil retains more moisture than butter so it's soft and silky, like it just came out of the oven, even days after you receive it.

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

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APPLE BACON

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, 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 nosher gift boxed in cartoon box $45 G-ALM-S nosher gift boxed in wooden crate $50

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

G-3CK 3 nosher cakes,

wood crate $100

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northern italian hazelnut britTle D. Barbero Torrone Nougat

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 he makes better food. More importantly, he’s dead right, especially when it comes to texture. Barbero torrone is gently crumbly, in a shattering, delicate way. It reminds me of very light peanut brittle. 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

german spice coOkIEs Pfeffernüsse Cookies

Pfeffernüsse cookies are traditional Christmas treats in Germany. 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 round and smallish and shaped somewhat like a walnut in the shell. Our Bakehouse started making them for Christmas last year and now for the first time we’re selling them on their own. The illustrated box makes for an adorable stocking stuffer and the 8 cookies inside are sure to bring holiday cheer to even the Bah Humbug-iest of Scrooges.

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

Christmas coOkie mix

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

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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 tins: one for eating and another for those times when a quick gift comes in handy.

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

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Fruit Cakes

Full disclosure: the price on these fruitcakes may cause sticker shock. Where most fruit cakes are cheap, somewhat industrial and terrible, these are another species altogether. Crafted by Robert Lambert 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 has a revelation of flavors.

White Rare Citrus Fruitcake

Dark Rare citrus Fruitcake

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. Robert says, “The recipe is British, Victorian era.

It’s based on my grandmother Floria's cake, but instead of the store-bought glacéed fruits she used I make my own candied fruit.” He chooses 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 $65

For his Dark Fruit Cake, 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 Ficklin Port, and a bit of candied ginger. Then, wait for it...he soaks it all in bourbon.

Like everything Robert creates, these cakes are made by hand, in smallbatches with an obsessive attention to detail. The flavor is phenomenal.

Comes wrapped in a muslin bag.

P-RLD 1 lb fruit cake, 6 inches

long, serves 8-10 $65

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Vintage Fruitcakes 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. In the summer of 2014 Robert made a small number of his rare citrus fruit cakes to age. He cellared them in California. 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 afficianado's treat. Get yours quick, they sell out quickly every year. Gift boxed.

P-VTG white vintage $90 P-VLD dark vintage $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Panettone 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 so nicely they seem like something you'd give the Pope. We’ve had great traditional panettone every Christmas since our doors opened in 1982. Now we also offer two new twists.

Panettone Balsamico

Traditional Panettone If Italy had to elect a national Christmas dessert, this would be the top candidate.

The texture is 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 for gifting.

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

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

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Chocolate and Fig Panettone 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-and-fruit fan.

P-CPN 750 g cake, serves 10-12 $65 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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seriously sensual

Blanxart Cocoa from Spain

I know it’s hard to believe anything this good could come from a prepacked mix, but it does. To top it off it’s practically fat free. Simply mix with hot water or steamed milk for the smoothest cup of hot cocoa around. The everyday hot cocoa of Spain, where they drink hot cocoa every day.

P-CDC 200 g, 6 servings $9 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Rovira Spanish Drinking Chocolate

Thgis stuff gives new meaning to the words “hot chocolate.” When you read about chocolate being the morning beverage of Renaissance royalty in Europe, this is what they were drinking. So thick, so choclatey, so intensely rich, it’s impossible to convey the experience of eating it in a PG-rated food catalog. If any beverage is better than sex this is it.

A huge hit, we always sell every bag we import. Buy yours quick.

P-ROV 330 g box, about 8 servings $25 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Ancient sNaCk Red Pepper Truffles

Bonajuto has been making chocolate in the baroque Sicilian town of Modica since 1880. By that time Gustav Lindt had perfected conching, the process that makes chocolate smooth. Nearly every European chocolate maker adopted it. Bonajuto didn’t. They continued to make unconched chocolate, the texture crunchy in comparison. Nowadays that texture has come somewhat back in fashion. Here, you can experience it as it was and always has been. This gift box has bite sized truffles spiced with just a hint of red pepper, another typical addition to 19th century chocolate. An outstanding gift for a chocolate lover—or history buff.

P-BON-TRU 20 truffle box $35 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Chocolate Covered Grissini

Grissini are the thin bread sticks you see on every North Italian table before dinner. These, made by a bakery in the town of Asti, are crisp and crumbly and absolutely grand when served plain. But that's not what we're doing here. These are covered in semi-sweet chocolate. Each bread stick is more than eight inches long and, thanks to the sweet jacket, built for coveting. Imagine a really substantial, supremely delicious version of Japanese poki. I found myself nibbling away like a chipmunk who’d hit the jackpot.

P-GRS 200 g box $18 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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The Jawdropper

A far-reaching and many-pleasing assortment of eat immediately foods, from pastries and cheese to cured meats and sapid sweets. Includes our Walnut-studded Magic Brownie and no-nut Black Magic Brownie, Sea Salt Topped Pecan Blondie, Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, a box of Classic Currant Walnut and Apricot Rugelach, crispy Palmiers, Chocolate Banana Bread, a nosher sized Sourcream Coffeecake, Classic Currant Scone and Ginger Scone, French Dried Plums, Spanish Fig and Almond Cake, Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans, La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Tunisian Olives, Spicy Cashews, Virginia Diner Peanuts, Rick's Picks Smokra and a bag of Zingerman’s Coffee ground and ready to brew. All packed in our gigantic wooden cheese crate, re-purposes nicely as a puppy storage unit.

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

Candied Fruits

Honey Figs

Sugarplums

Despite the French name, Marrons Glacés are an invention of Northern Italy’s Piedmont region. Having tasted a whole bunch of them over many years, I can confidently say that the ones the Bardini brothers make near the town of Cuneo are my favorites.

They soak in a vanilla-scented sugar syrup bath, during which time the syrup is slowly pulled into the center of the chestnut. Rolled in sugar and gift boxed, a surefire gift success with anyone of European origin and a great gift for chestnut lovers of any origin.

P-MRN gift box of 8 $45

Pingo de mel figs—”honey drop”–are so named because they drip sugar when they’re ripe. Preserved in sugar by the same nuns who make our Sugarplums, at right. Hold one up to the light. First, notice it’s improbably heavy. Next, look how it glows from within. The texture is like a candied chestnut but not as chalky. The flavor opens up after you taste, the dominant note of caramelized honey goes on and on, lingering long after you swallow. I’ve never had anything like this. I’m pretty sure eating one made me high.

P-HFG 9 figs in wood crate $40

Straight from the rhymes of The Night Before Christmas, Greengage plums are harvested in Portugal in late summer then submerged in sugar syrup, where they rest for six weeks, slowly absorbing sweetness. Finally, they’re laid in the sun to dry. The long, complex process—similar to what happens with Marrons Glacés, at left— makes a candied plum. Slightly sweet, green and fuzzy on the outside like a peach. They have a pit, so watch out.

Remarkably, the texture is firm, like a fruit you’ve just picked. A venerable British Christmas tradition.

P-UGA 9 plums in wood crate $45

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greAt Snacks right Out of the basket The Snackboard Gift Basket This has always been our most popular gift basket. No heating, no cooking, just eating required.

SMALL Zingerman’s Farm Bread, Zingerman’s 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

LARGE All the foods from the small and medium plus Zingerman's Peanut Brittle, Zingerman’s Virginia Peanuts and a Ginger Jump-Up Molasses Cookie.

G-SNA-L large $150 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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MEDIUM All the food from the small plus La Quercia's Borsellino Salami, Irish Brown Bread Crackers and a Magic Brownie.

G-SNA-M medium $130

DELUXE (ILLUSTRATED) Everything in the other three sizes plus a box of Dufflet Chocolate Crackle, Mediterranean Olives and Zingerman's Spiced Pecans.

G-SNA-D deluxe $180

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A Tuscan’s Treat

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

G-TUS italian gift basket $200 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, Funky Chunky Chocolate Cookie, Sky's the Lemon Cookie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Ginger Jump-Up Cookie, Italian Honey and English Preserves.

G-GRA-1 deluxe $75

ULTIMATE doubles 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 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

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Baked Goods Bonanza

Pastry Sampler

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 Currant Scone, a six pack of all butter Palmiers, our nosher-sized Hot Cocoa Coffeecake and a Vanilla Cosmic Cake.

G-BNZ bakehouse bonanza, serves 10-12 $100

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

G-ZBS pastry sampler, serves 6-8 $45

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Cinnful Cinnamon Roll Gift Box

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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.

Comes 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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Give them virtual cash and they can go hog wild at any Zingerman's business. Be it midnight shopping online, an afternoon reuben binge at the Delicatessen or an evening's flight of bourbons at our Roadhouse.

Plastic or Electronic, our gift cards never expire, never go out of style, and one size fits all.

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Zingerman’s monthly food clubs are the gift that they can’t forget—literally. You sign them up, pay once, and then super tasty food starts arriving, month after month. Loads more clubs online and pages 8-11, 38-39.

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