GIFTS: Bacon-Flavored Envelopes

Lick the envelope—it tastes like bacon. Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. Here’s a stocking stuffer that qualifies as unique: envelopes that look and taste like bacon. From J&D’s, the folks who brought you Bacon Salt, here are envelopes that anyone will want to lick. J&D’s Bacon-Flavored Mmmvelopes not only taste like bacon, they…
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FOOD HOLIDAYS: National Lager Week For Beer Lovers

Love your lager? This is the week to celebrate: It’s National Lager Beer Week. Lager (the German word for storage) refers to any beer made by bottom fermentation. It is usually golden in color but sometimes can be dark. Lager requires a longer, colder fermentation than ale (which is a top-fermenting beer), and uses a…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Celebrate National Cookie Day!

Today is National Cookie Day, so bake up a batch or two to share with your friends and loved ones. We love Michael Recchiuti’s Brown Sugar Macadamia Nut Cookies With Chocolate Chunks, a very sophisticated chocolate chip cookie variation. If you don’t have time to bake them—or your own favorite recipe—pick up some delicious bakery…
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CONTEST: Is Your Family Bagel Story Worth $1,000?

Win $1,000 and a year’s supply! Photo courtesy Lender’s Bagels. “Now That’s A Bagel That….” Complete this sentence with the winning phrase, along with a photo that illustrates what Lenders’ Bagels brings to your family’s life, and you might win $1,000 and a year’s supply of bagels. Whether at breakfast, lunch, dinner or any time…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: A Fresh-Cut Green Valley Christmas Tree

Let Green Valley Christmas Trees take the hassle out of looking for the perfect tree. Photo courtesy Green Valley Christmas Trees. Sure, you could bundle yourself up in a parka and snow boots, trudge through the snow at a tree lot looking for the perfect Christmas tree, cut it down, drag it back to your…
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