Zingerman's Top 10 Foods of 2016 Catalog

new foods of 2016

Late 2016, early 2017

new foods of 2016

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White Chocolate Covered Figs

Chocolate lovers, fruit lovers, and lovers of chocolate and fruit together take note. This is the first time we’ve had these famous figs in white chocolate and I’m going to call it now: this is a big deal. We’ve been selling the dark chocolate version of these figs for more than a decade and they haven’t changed the basic elements of this new confection. Dried figs are filled with soft chocolate truffle cream and a hint of liqueur and then dipped in white chocolate. As the saying goes: if it ain’t broke, cover it in white chocolate.

P-WRB 12 piece box $20 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Juniper & Thyme Bacon Salted Pecan Praline Banana Bread When creating the ‘next big thing’ in the pastry world, it’s best to start with something people already know and love. So we took our classic banana bread full of classic charms like cane sugar, real butter and fresh eggs as well as a touch of Madagascar vanilla and nearly two perfectly ripe bananas per loaf. Then we upped the ante and topped the whole loaf with a sweet, crunchy, salty, praline made with toasted pecans. The result?

Our new favorite pastry. It’s amazing what a layer of praline can do to an already amazing treat. Wrapped by hand in tissue and packed in our fun, cartooned, banana-themed box.

G-BNP gift boxed $20

From Underground Meats in Madison, Wisconsin. This bacon—made with pasture-raised heritage breed pork—is cured with juniper, brown sugar, and thyme for fantastic, herbaceous flavor. Using juniper to flavor bacon is an old English technique.

Not only are there juniper berries in the cure, but the berries are also added to the sawdust used for smoking the bacon as well. A double dose of juniper makes this new (but old) bacon one to savor and celebrate.

M-JNP 12 oz sliced $22

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

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Pane Nero Bread We release a new bread about once a decade, so this is a big deal. Frank Carollo, founder of Zingerman’s Bakehouse, has been trying to replicate the recipe for this traditional Sicilian bread for twenty years, but it just wasn’t working. Then he met Filipo Drago from Molini del Ponte, a mill in Sicily, and he finally found the missing piece he needed: the right wheat. Made with Tummina durum wheat, special heirloom variety from Sicily, this dark brown loaf has a dense, compact crumb that tastes slightly sweet. Topped with sesame seeds and sea salt, it’s a hearty, flavorful loaf that’s been well worth the wait.

B-NER 1¼ lb loaf $12

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Guava Jam

Think of rillettes (ree-yets) as France’s version of pulled pork. This one comes from upstate New York, not Paris, but the style is all French. Ham hocks and hams from heritage breed, pasture raised pigs are smoked over applewood, then shredded and mixed with verjus, maple syrup, mustard, and spices. The flavor is rich but bright, and supremely porky.

Serve rillettes in an appetizer spread with pickles and crackers, or warm them up and spread ‘em on crusty bread with cheese or jam.

M-RIL 6 oz jar $16

I have a soft spot for preserves of this nature: spreadable, luscious, bright and delicious. It sports only two ingredients: guava and cane sugar (well, three because there’s a touch of citric acid in there to help keep its color). Guava is one of those exotic flavors that feels very familiar. Its flavor is tropical and sometimes it actually makes me feel like I’m basking on a beach somewhere instead of nibbling away at my kitchen table. Try it on toast, grilled chicken, mixed into yogurt or even slathered on pork tenderloin hot off the grill.

P-GVJ 12 oz jar $10

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New Americans Cheese Gift Box Twenty years ago, the artisan American cheese scene better resembled a wasteland than the crowded field you find today. There are new cheesemakers everywhere, from coast to coast, and most of them are making really delicious cheese. The challenge today isn’t finding good cheese, it’s editing the selection. We’ve gathered three examples from cheesemakers who are redefininig American cheese so the recipient can also bask in the new Golden Age of domestic cheese.

G-NAC 3 cheeses, plus bread $100

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Ibérico de Bellota Secreto Pork

Thick, creamy, elegant, luscious. Eating gelato is an event, a special occasion that borders on a religious experience for ice cream connoisseurs. We’ve been shipping our incredibly delicious gelato across the country for years, but finally you can select your own assortment from all the flavors made by Zingerman’s Creamery. We have a bevy of direct, intense flavors to choose from. Build your own box online or by phone.

G-6GL six 12 oz containers $115

The secreto is a coveted shoulder cut prized in Spain and Portugal. It’s like the pork version of a ribeye steak. Ibérico hogs roam free across southern Spain, gobbling up acorns (bellotas), giving the meat an incredibly rich, beefy flavor.

While 99% of the Ibérico de bellota pork on the market is cured, these secreto steaks are fresh. Each comes marbled with the bellota-fed fat that melts in your mouth in a way that’s almost surreal. Exceptional. Ships frozen, arrives frozen or cool.

M-SEC about 1¼ lbs $100

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Our annual Balsamic Vinegar Sale is back!

Stock up your pantry, your neighbor’s pantry, or buy some future birthday gifts.

Prices good at Zingerman's Mail Order and Delicatessen.

Sale ends January 31, 2017

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Sixteen Year Aged Balsamic in an Oak Barrel La Vecchia Dispensa’s cooper has fashioned a few small, seasoned oak barrels filled with over a quart of our exclusive sixteen year aged balsamic. Use the glass dropper to rescue a bit of balsamic for salads or strawberries.

Kept sealed, it’ll last indefinitely and get better with time, just like you.

Quantities very limited.

V-BAR-16 1 liter barrel of 16 year balsamic was $350, NOW $175

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8 year aged

10 year aged

Bright, tart, and ideal for vinaigrettes. A kitchen standard.

V-8YR 250 ml bottle was $25, NOW $20 SAV SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Perennially, our best selling balsamic.

Beautifully packaged, complexly flavored, it’s the most intensely flavored balsamic of its age I’ve ever tried.

V-10Y 250 ml bottle was $35, NOW $25 SAV SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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16 year aged

The woody, earthy intensity of our 10 year balsamic rounded out with a dose of lush sweetness,.

V-16Y 250 ml bottle SAVE was $45, NOW $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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$15

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 was $25, NOW $15

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Taste them alL Gift Box of Four Balsamics

You don’t have to be a balsamic sommelier to taste the difference between these amazing vinegars. As balsamics age, they go from being bright and tart to taking on a sweeter, more raisin-y flavor and a thicker, more syrupy texture. The young balsamics are better for vinaigrettes; the older ones are killer drizzled on cheese or berries. This collection of four bottles from our longtime source for balsamic, La Vecchia Dispensa in Modena, Italy, range in age from 10 to 30 years. Nestled in a beautiful box, they make a stunning gift.

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30 year aged

With much of the flavor of balsamics that cost twice as much, this is a great deal for a great vinegar.

V-30Y 100 ml bottle was $50, NOW $25 SAVE SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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four ages

Balsamic Sampler Four precious small bottles (about an ounce total) of Vecchia Dispensa's 8, 10, 20 and 40 year aged balsamics. They look like beautiful vials of perfume, just way tastier.

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The regal, Rare ones

Tradizionali Balsamics from Modena These are the vinegars about which legends have been woven. Buy one for a grand occasion. A golden anniversary. A wedding. A newborn. An election win. Tested by a panel of judges, the qualifiers in Modena are graded gold and white. Then they return to the wood for another five, ten, twenty, or a hundred years or more.

During the aging process, the vinegar is shifted from one type of wood to the next.

Cherry, chestnut, oak and mulberry all leave their imprint on the flavor of the vinegar. The result is an almost unbelievable concentration of sweet-sour flavor in a dense, intense, brown-black vinegar that hints of berries, grapes, vanilla. There is nothing like it in the world. Only a tiny amount is released each year, in elegant glass flasks. Let loose a few drops on ripe strawberries fresh from the market. An amazing treat you'll always remember. All traditional balsamics from Modena are bottled in Ferrari designer Giorgio Guigiaro's streamlined, sexy bottle, then gift boxed. They may all look the same, but the vinegar is not. We buy ours from Erika Barbieri, one of only a handful of female balsamic makers. I think her vinegars are consistently fantastic—and the juniper aged version is unique.

V-JUN 100 ml white label juniper was $135, NOW $85 SAVE V-MOD-1 100 ml white label was $125, NOW $75 UP TO $75 V-MOD-2 100 ml gold label was $200, NOW $125 FREE SHIPPING ON EACH

The ultra luxe ones

Next Level Balsamics from Modena Just when you thought balsamic couldn’t get any more luxurious, Erika Barbieri has turned the dial up to 11 with three sumptuous elixirs that will leave you gobsmacked. First is the haunting flavor of Juniper Extra Aged, which spends more than 25 years maturing primarily in juniper barrels. Next is the extraordinary Black Diamond, made in barrels that are more than 50 years old. And then there’s Grandmother’s Fabulous, which is made in barrels that are more than a century old, creating mind-blowing flavor. Each comes nestled in a stunning, handdecorated wooden box. We’ve brought them on just for the balsamic blowout, then they’re gone. Extremely limited quantities.

V-JXA 100 ml juniper extra aged

was $250, NOW $125 SAVE V-DMN 100 ml black diamond UP TO $250

was $350, NOW $175 V-GMA 100 ml grandmother’s fabulous

was $500, NOW $250 FREE SHIPPING ON EACH

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Build it

Mix & Match Custom Pastry Sampler Gift Box

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

Cookies

Brownies Magic Brownie

Ginger Jump-Up

Classic with toasted walnuts.

Muscovado brown sugar and chunks of crystallized ginger.

Black Magic

Oatmeal Raisin

Classic minus the nuts.

Maple syrup, organic oats and giant red flame raisins.

Buenos Aires Brownie sandwiching a layer of dulce de leche.

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

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

$35

Cosmic Cakes

Scones Currant

Vanilla Real Madagascar vanilla.

With dried currants.

Lemon

Raspberry With raspberry preserves.

With candied lemon zest.

Ginger Spicy, crystallized ginger.

Chocolate Chunk

Cheddar Herb

Big pieces of chocolate and toasted walnuts.

A savory scone with cheddar and fresh rosemary.

Triple Chocolate

Country

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

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

Sky’s the Lemon

Bacon Cheddar

With fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and candied lemon.

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

6 piece assortment G-6PP

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Buttercream Cakes

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

Merry Mint

Caramel Apple

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

A-MER serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

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

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

A-SPI serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

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Hummingbird Coconut

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

A-HUM serves 6-8, 6” diameter

by 4” high $100

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Toasted Pecan Pie

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

Krista, Lakeland, Florida

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Pecan pie is the one of Southern cooking’s best diplomats. It’s hard to find folks who won’t dig into a slice placed in front of them. That said, there are good pecan pies and there are great ones. The better versions take the time and expense to tend the details. Like real butter in the crust, each pie rolled and pressed out by hand. And great brown sugar—ours is organic and natural, from Mauritius—for the filling. And of course pecans: toasted pecans. Toasted before they’re baked because the flavor amplifies by an order of magnitude when you crisp them up a bit. And loads of them. Our bakers stuff in so many pecans that there’s barely enough room to fit them in, let alone any of the caramelly brown-sugar custard. Zingerman’s pecan pie explodes with flavor, a warm balanced flavor that’s never too sweet, but is unparalleled, unforgettable.

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

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Jewish Baked Goods

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

P-RHN 8 pieces of rugelach,

6 pieces of hamentaschen $30

Coconut Macaroons

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

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

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Half vanilla, half chocolate, all with coconut.

Crunchy on the outside, creamy on the inside.

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

Hamentaschen

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

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

Goat’s Milk Caramels Farmstead Confection

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

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

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

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

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

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

G-GIF mailed for free E-GIF emailed instantly

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

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

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

G-DIN rustic retreat gift box $85 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Get Well Gift Box

The Munchies Collection

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

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

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

G-MUN munchies $65

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Maussane Olive Oil

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

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

This is a unique oil that’s got one of the most dedicated followings I’ve ever witnessed.

We tracked it down years ago at the adamant insistence of Nancy Harmon Jenkins, one of the world’s most knowledgeable food folks, and it’s had a growing cadre of fans ever since. A rich, golden nectar with a distinctive herbal character no other oil can match, it sings with an unequaled pitch in its range of high and low flavor notes.

One of its fans told me, “If you love olives, you’ll want to marry this oil.”

O-MAU 500 ml $40 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

my house oil Peranzana Olive Oil

The olive oil with Zingerman’s label is created by Marina Colonna on her ancient estate in the Molise, a little over 100 miles due east of Rome. Made from hand picked Peranzana olives pressed the same day they’re taken from the tree, it's hugely flavorful. The latest vintage has pleasing aromas of green tomato and freshly cut grass. The flavor has notes of artichoke and black olive. It finishes with mild green-olive bitterness and a bit of a peppery tickle.

O-ZIN 500 ml $29 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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

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

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beautiful BalAnce

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

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

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

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16 Year Aged

V-8YR 250 ml bottle $25

V-16Y 250 ml bottle $45

10 Year Aged

30 Year Aged

V-10Y 250 ml bottle $35

4 Ages

V-30Y 100 ml bottle $50

white balsAmIc, sort of Agrodolce White Balsamic Vinegar

16yr in barrel

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

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

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

Agrodolce is super smooth, light on the tongue, subtle and very, very long in the finish. Technically it's not a balsamic, but you can use it in place of balsamic since it’s similarly soft and sweet.

Wherever it’s employed, your cooking will be enhanced by one of the most elegant vinegars I’ve tried in a really long time. It’s crafted by Sante Bertoni on his family estate outside of Modena, Italy. Described as a bit of a mad scientist, Sr. Bertoni is giving the vinegar extra maturing just for us, making its flavor more complex before it hits your kitchen.

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New! Pecan Praline brand new banana bread

Classic, Chocolate and NEW: Pecan Praline

The diabolical pastry enablers at Zingerman’s Bakehouse have focused their dark magic on classic banana bread. Like our hugely popular sourcream coffeecake and magic brownies, banana bread instantly conjures up nostalgia for home baking. The thing is, this loaf tastes better than what mom used to make (no offense intended moms, it’s just hard to beat our Bakehouse).

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

And new this fall, pecan praline banana bread is topped with a layer of caramel-coated toasted pecans sprinkled with a pinch of sea salt. Wrapped in tissue, each loaf comes packed in its own colorfully illustrated box. Serves 5-7.

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

choCOlate vices Chocolate Suspension

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

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

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Cinn-ful Cinnamon Roll Gift Box Almost anyone can make a cinnamon roll smell good while it’s baking, even among the cell phone kiosks at the mall. Unfortunately, most have little more than aroma to offer. You won’t taste much beyond sugar and cinnamon. The real challenge is to fashion a cinnamon roll that tastes as good as it smells. These fit the bill. Warm them up, break one open and put your nose up close. You’ll smell sweet butter, Indonesian cinnamon, real vanilla. But the real treat is next. Take one bite. That’s all you’ll need to forget the litany of cinnamon roll disappointments life has dealt you.

With serving instructions.

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

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

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

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

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That special place Sweet Loaf o' Mine Gift Box

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

G-HOB gift box $85

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

G-SLM sweet loaf $55 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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bREAkfast breads

the bakers' crown

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

G-FES bread-fest box $50

This box is for all those classic bread lovers out there, the ones who turn up their noses at Cinnamon Raisin, the ones who fight for crust. We offer three of our most hallowed peasant loaves, the ones our bakers consider their crowning achievements. The gift box includes a loaf each of Paesano, Farm Bread and Roadhouse.

G-PEA peasant gift box $45

Rustic Peasant Loaf Gift Box

Bread-fest Gift Box

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Deli Deluxe Bread Box

Sweet & Spicy Bread Box

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

G-SAM-A deli deluxe $50

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

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roadhouse bread

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

B-ROA 1½ lb handmade loaf $9

paesano

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

Recommended for ripping and dipping in olive oil.

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

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farm bread

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

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french mouNtain

I’d have a tough time picking between this and Farm Bread for top spot on my European-style favorites list. French Mountain Bread has a chestnut colored crust nearly a quarter inch thick, a dense wheaty crumb inside and a toasty, long lasting flavor. It’s totally terrific for toasting.

B-MON-A ¾ kilo handmade loaf $12 B-MON-B 2 kilo handmade

“Z” loaf $26

Sourdough

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

B-SDR 1½ lb round $8 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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cinNamon raisin A cinnamon raisin bread with substance.

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

Makes sensational Sunday morning toast.

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

pecan raisin

pumpernickel raisin

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

B-PEC 1¼ lb handmade loaf $16

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

B-RSN 1½ lb loaf $9 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

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

Mitchell from Ann Arbor, Michigan

chOcolate CHerRy choCOlate sOurdough Craquelin

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

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

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

B-CHO 1 ¼ lb handmade loaf $18

It’s simple: our sourdough bread stuffed with chunks of dark Belgian chocolate. Like most of the school children I know, I like to rip off a hunk and eat it as soon as I open the bag, but it's best when you pop it in the oven for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Your entire kitchen is likely to be filled with sensuous smells—warm chocolate, good bread. This is one loaf that's very hard to keep around the house.

B-XSB 1 lb handmade loaf $10

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

B-QUE 1½ lb handmade loaf $25

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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 Nor'easter Cabot cheddar blended into the Bakehouse’s tangy Farm Bread.

Great on its own or as an accompaniment to dinner. It’s especially good if you give it about twenty minutes in a 325 degree oven before you break it open so it’s nice and steamy when you crack the crust.

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

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

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

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

Pumpernickel B-PUM 1½ lb loaf $9

Caraway Rye B-CAR 1½ lb loaf $9

Onion Rye B-ONI 1½ lb loaf $9

Chernushka Seed Rye B-CHR 1½ lb loaf $9

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Pane Nero

Chestnut Bread Made with plenty of Michigan chestnut flour, this naturally leavened loaf has a rich tan crust and a nearly purple colored crumb. The flavor is full, nutty, sweet, rich and very satisfying.

B-CNT 1 ½ lb loaf $18 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

B-NER 1¼ lb handmade loaf $12 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

Vollkornbrot

8-Grain 3-Seed Bread

Dinkelbrot

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

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

B-VOL 2 lb handmade loaf $8

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

B-8GR 1¼ lb handmade loaf $10

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

Dense, moist, delicious, different from most of the breads we bake whose origins tend to be French and Italian. Excellent for sandwiches. I enjoy devouring loaves armed only with good butter and sometimes a toaster.

B-DNK 1½ lb handmade loaf $12 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

bread geography

Michigan Maple Cutting Board This cutting board, shaped like Michigan’s lower peninsula, makes a great gift for a Michigander or those who wish they were (I'm looking at you, Indiana).

The company that makes it has been in business since 1881. They are from Michigan. The maple wood is from Michigan. It’s especially handy for serving Michigan cheese and cherries. Apologies to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, we don’t have a cutting board for you yet.

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

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

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

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

THE KING OF CHEESE Parmigiano Reggiano Not all the wheels that bear the world famous Parmigiano-Reggiano name are created equal. There are big differences from one to the next. The wheels we select have a really rich, wonderfully complex flavor with a lovely, long finish with none of the bitterness or mouth burn that often mars the final flavor of others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This one I enjoy most. I love cheeses like these; they’re often on my short list of favorites for their long aging and big, bold flavors. We’ll include samples of mountain cheeses, including Comté and other well-aged wedges.

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

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

G-BRI with artisan bread $100 G-N-BRI with crackers $100

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

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

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

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

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

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

EACH CHEESE PASSPORT CONTAINS Three cheeses, wrapped in our re-usable French wax-lined cheese bag

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england's christmas cheese Colston Bassett Stilton

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

C-STI ½ lb hand cut wedge $21

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

superior spreads

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pickled Raisins, Figs, and Cherries

Walnut Mustard P-WAL 200 g jar $10

P-CHE 12 oz jar $16

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

Violet Mustard

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P-VIO 200 g jar $10

P-ULE 9 oz jar $20

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Spanish Line-caught Tuna Ortiz Tunas from Spain Tuna is one of the most popular foods we sell. It may seem surprising because here in the U.S., tinned tuna is a low-end commodity usually sold in supermarkets. In Spain it’s at the complete opposite of the culinary spectrum. Tuna in tins, especially these from the fourth-generation family firm Ortiz, is one of the jewels in Spain's culinary crown. Ortiz's fish are all line caught—never netted—cleaned at sea and quickly tinned in good olive oil. The olive oil is key. It adds flavor and makes the texture silky over time, unlike water, which tends to leach flavors from the fish.

Spectacular stuff.

Bonito Loin P-ORT

Bonito Loin hand packed in jar

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Yellowfin Loin

P-YLL 6 oz jar $20

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

P-ORT-JAR 220 g jar $22

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Yellowfin Ventrensca (Belly) P-YVT

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National treasure Portuguese Sardines

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

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

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

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Anchovies Four Ways

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

Oil Packed Anchovy Fillets

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La Gran Anchoa Fillets

Ten fillets, ready for eating.

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

Nine to twelve huge fillets, ready to eat.

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

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Anchovy in Sundried Tomato

Anchovy Stuffed Peppers

Sicily's antipasto is ready to eat.

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

So good I call them red truffles.

P-AUP 180 g jar $30

2 or more $25 each

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

Let your salami warm to room temperature.

Cut it on the thicker side for maximum flavor.

Borsellino Salami

Nduja

Vecchio Salami

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

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

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

M-NAN-2 6 oz $17

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

M-VEC about 7 oz $23

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Summer Sausage

Broadbent Breakfast Sausage

Goat Finocchiona Salami

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

M-SSS 10 oz piece $20

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

M-BRB 1 lb bag $12

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

M-FNO about 6 oz $19

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Red Wattle Pork Porterhouse Chops

Duroc Pork Porterhouse Chops

Berkshire Pork Porterhouse Chops

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

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

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

The most flavorful of the lot.

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

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

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

"Most assuredly not the other white meat."

Ed Levine, Serious Eats

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Chops, Ribeye and Burgers Heritage Meat Kit

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

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

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

G-HMT heritage meat kit $160 FREE SHIPPING

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

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

Nueske’s Applewood

Juniper & Thyme

Hickory smoked and dry cured.

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

M-BBT 1 lb sliced $20

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

M-JNP 12 oz sliced $22 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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There’s a reason this is our top seller. It is perfectly balanced between softly, pleasantly sweet and salty/smoky. To me this is the Platonic ideal of bacon. If I were to choose one bacon to eat every day, which pretty much sounds like heaven, this would be it. Nueske’s slices it thickly just for us.

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

Allan Benton's

Cherrywood

Arkansas Peppered

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

M-CHY 12 oz sliced $19

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

M-ARK 12 oz sliced $15

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Shocking. There’s no other way to describe the experience of first tasting acorn fed pork. In the oak forests of southern Spain, heritage Ibérico pigs spend their lives rooting around on pasture. In the fall when the ground is littered with acorns (bellotas in Spanish), they gobble them up. The acorn diet has a magical effect on the meat’s texture. It appears to lower the fat’s melting point to body temperature.

Eating a thin slice is like placing a piece of chocolate on your tongue—it immediately puddles, the flavor releasing itself in the process. Eating it is an exceptional experience, one of the pinnacles of meat eating.

Ibérico de Bellota Cured Pork Loin

Ibérico de Bellota Spanish Cured Ham

Acorn Edition Borsellino Salami

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

M-LOM about 1.1 lbs, whole $140

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

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

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

M-ACB 6 oz salami $15

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that's a sandwich

Now

F RE E SHIPPING

Michael Ivins, The Flaming Lips

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

FOUR STYLES Corned Beef Reuben G-SHE serves 8 $200 G-SHE-2 serves 3-4 $150 Pastrami Brooklyn Reuben G-BIN serves 8 $200 G-BIN-2 serves 3-4 $150 Turkey Georgia Reuben* G-GEO serves 8 $200 G-GEO-2 serves 3-4 $150 * Cooked in peanut oil

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

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

G-PTL praise the lard gift box $150

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

a la carte Corned Beef

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

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

serves 12 $110 SHIPS ONE BUSINESS DAY OVERNIGHT

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

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

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

G-ITL gift box $90 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

Great Lakes Artisan Gift Box Peanut Butter from Koeze from Grand Rapids, Michigan, American Spoon Preserves from Petoskey, Michigan, Freshly Roasted Zingerman's Coffee, Mo’s Bacon Chocolate bar from Vosges in Chicago, Marieke Gouda from Thorp, Wisconsin, Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon from Wittenberg, Wisconsin, and our Pecan Raisin Bread.

G-GLA gift box $100 SHIPS 2 BUSINESS DAY

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

G-AMT gift box $100

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Packed by hand in our classic cartoon Zingerman's box, including: Zingerman's Farm Bread, La Quercia’s Borsellino Salami, Spanish Olive Oil and Anise Crispy Tortas, Marcona Almonds, Tuna-Stuffed Piquillo Peppers from Basque Country and Portuguese Sardines. Serves 6-8 quite handily.

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

American Artisan

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Tapas Gift Box

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

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

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NEW FISH! try some SOur sea Snakes, won’t you?

Eels in Escabeche

It’s tough to get people to warm up to eels. Let alone eels in a vinegar sauce—what the Portuguese call escabeche. I know I’m digging myself a big hole here but hear me out.

Eels the animal, a sea snake of sorts, is not the most appetizing idea, but if you’re a fan of tinned seafood I urge you to try some. There’s a reason the Portuguese, Italians, and Spanish seafood lovers go gaga for them. The firm flesh is rich and utterly delicious.

They’re packed in the old way many fish—sardines and tuna, to name a couple—were preserved in Portugal before canning was invented. And while I prefer sardines and tuna in tins with olive oil, I really enjoy eels in the traditional escabeche. This is tinned fish that will take you to another time and place, in a good way. There’s nothing like it out there.

P-ESC 105 g tin $12 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the bacon of THE sea Smoked Mussels

A little wood smoke takes these briny, tender Atlantic mussels to a new level of flavor, giving them a beachfire scent that will make them disappear from a just-cracked can faster than you can say “When is the next flight to Lisbon?” Pop open a tin the next time you’ve got company who’d like just to nibble on a little something.

This the kind of tinned seafood Portugal and Spain raise families on, the kind they entertain with, the kind they understand—and we’re coming to appreciate—as a national treasure.

P-SMU 105 g tin $9 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

i lovE sea hedGEhOgs Sea Urchin Pasta Sauce

Sea urchin is an acquired taste. But once acquired it haunts you. For me, there is nothing else I can eat that evokes the sea as strongly as it does. Mussels are close.

Oysters are closer. But sea urchin is briny and funky in a way that, as soon as the first bite hits, I can recall what the summer wind off the ocean felt like. I first tasted Paolo Licata’s sugo di ricci—sea hedgehog sauce, the Italian word for sea urchins—in Sicily a decade ago. When we got the first shipment of a few cases this fall it was just as I’d remembered: a sweet, delicious Sicilian classic tomato sauce, spiked with shrimp and anchovies, with a deep current of urchin flavor running throughout. It’s a smooth sauce, homogenous, no chunks of fish, and I adore it on a plate of just-cooked Rustichella bucatini with nothing else except a glass of cold white wine nearby. The sauce’s flavor is strong enough that a little goes a long way, which makes the expense of such a luxury easier to bear. A few spoonfuls per person is enough, so a jar can easily serve 8.

P-URH 290 g jar $30 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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and more new!

lots more new food finds at zingermans.com VelvEt pork

Ibérico de Bellota Nduja Nduja is dry cured like salami but the result is silky and spreadable, like spicy pork butter. Tasting it for the first time is a memorable experience. When it’s made with acorn-fed Ibérico de Bellota pork from Spain, eating it is an event so big you’ll want to clear your calendar. The acorn diet has a magical effect on the meat’s texture, so that the fat practically melts into a puddle on your tongue. The nduja is unbelievably velvety smooth, with a deep, rich heat that builds and builds.

Outrageously delicious.

M-IND 6 oz $24 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

the nEw cure

New American Cheese and Charcuterie Box There are some serious contenders for America's crown in cheese and cured meats and they are in this gift box, ready for an antipasto plate extraordinaire. A collection of some of America’ best new(ish) makers, including Andy Hatch’s Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese, Spring Brook Farm’s Reading Raclette cheese, La Querica’s Proscuitto Americano, Antonio Fiasche’s Nduja, Red Table Meat’s Vecchio Salami and a box of Hayden Flour Mills Red Fife Wheat Crackers.

G-ACM gift box serves 12 $100 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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

the unripe olive with flavOr

Bella di Colonna Olives

Green olives are unripe olives. As olives ripen they darken, turning brown, purple, or black. And like other fruit that’s unripe, most green olives don’t have much flavor. But there are exceptions. Like these little beauties from Marina Colonna (the woman behind our house Peranzana olive oil, p. 12).

Naturally brine cured Cerignola olives, they’re firm-fleshed, with direct, delicious field green flavor. Rinse a handful off under the faucet, dress them with a glug of Marina’s oil and top with a couple gratings of lemon zest and you’ll be sitting down to a superb Southern Italian snack. Pits included.

P-BCO 314 g jar $15 SHIPS FOR FLAT RATE

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Our gifts feature the same full-sized, full-flavored foods we’ve sold in our Delicatessen for 35 years—and that we’ve shipped to food lovers nationwide for the past 25. These are the gifts no one regifts. On the off chance something goes wrong, or if they don’t love a food we’ll refund the purchase or send something else, no problem.

We never ask anyone to return anything.

We pioneered food clubs like the Monthly Bacon Club and we still take care of our subscribers with the tastiest treats you can find anywhere. A dozen more clubs online—all with free shipping.

it's betTEr with Bacon

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

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G-BHF-4 $199

G-BAC-3 $99

Applewood Smoked Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

Quarter 1 Applewood Smoked Irish Style Back Bacon

Quarter 2 Kentucky Dry Cured Arkansas Peppered

Quarter 3 Tennessee Dry Cured Indiana Jowl Bacon

Quarter 4 Balinese Long Pepper Cherrywood Smoked

The same cartoons and paintings that fill our catalog are inked onto our gift boxes. They’re the kind of gift that puts your recipient in a good mood the moment they open it. Then they start eating and totally lose it. Customize-able? Of course.

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 High Flyer Coffee, Zingerman’s Banana Bread, Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs and Virginia Diner Peanuts.

G-LWE long weekender $175

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We have a tightly edited collection of gift baskets that look great, travel well, and knock the recipient’s socks off.

We’re happy to customize one just for you, too—just give us a ring.

greAt Snacks right Out of the basket The Snackboard Gift Baskets

These have always been our most popular gift baskets.

No heating, no cooking, just eating required.

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LARGE

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

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

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

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MEDIUM

DELUXE (illustrated)

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

G-SNA-M medium $130

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

G-SNA-D deluxe $180

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If you just browse quickly through our catalog I wouldn’t find it odd if you thought Zingerman’s was just a bakery. Our baked goods are the heart and soul of our catalogs and make up a huge amount of what we ship. One of the reasons is that no one ever in the history of the planet has ever been upset at getting a brownie in the mail.

our mOst popular pastry Sourcream Coffeecake

Coffeecakes are our perennial best sellers. They’ve been that way for over twenty years. We tuck them into two different styles of gift boxes: cartoon gift boxes (like to the left) or a handsome wooden cheese crate. Each coffeecake is baked from scratch in traditional bundt pans. Choose from one of our classics or new inventions. Our sourcream version, with Indonesian cinnamon and toasted walnuts, is our best seller and that’s what we have listed here. Just pick your packaging and we’ll ship it to arrive on the date you’d like.

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PortuGuese TinNed Squid

I love this squid because it’s unusual. People usually think of squid as being chewy or rubbery as a result of having had cheap calamari. This is the opposite of that: it’s soft, succulent. The flavor isn’t super fishy.

It’s savory but subtle, and the whole tin is really balanced and basically perfect. The three or four squids, stuffed with their own tentacles so they look like little seafood sausages, come in a ragout of oil, tomatoes, peppers and spices. Even that oil is worth saving—I like to rip off chunks of bread to dip in it, after pulling out the little squids and eating them whole, straight from the can. Or sometimes I like to toss the whole tin into a big bowl of pasta.

P-SCA 110 g tin $10 4 or more $7.50 each

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