RECIPE: Valentine’s Day Punch

Punch with a punch: Ruby Port. Photo courtesy Sandeman.   If you’re having a Valentine’s Day party and are looking for a special cocktail, the ruby red color and luscious flavor of this Valentine punch, made with ruby port, fit the bill. The recipe was developed for Sandeman Port—whose Ruby Port is a favorite of…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: A Gourmet Tea Gift With Passion

Any tea lover would adore these love-ly Tay Teas. Photo courtesy Tay Tea.   If you want to give your Valentine some Love Potion No. 9, mix up this Love Potion Martini. If he or she would prefer some fine tea, one of our favorite tea purveyors, Tay Tea, offers these options in bright red…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: The Best Date

Another healthy Valentine idea: Medjool dates. Whenever we encounter the Bard Valley Medjool Date Growers at a trade show, it’s our favorite booth. The melt-in-your-mouth, better-than-sugar dates have been called mankind’s first candy—and maybe the best. The Medjool variety has been called “the fruit of kings,” and unlike other “favorites of kings”—horse racing, for example—everyone…
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VALENTINE GIFT: Healthy Black Currants

First, the truth about currants: Most products called currants are raisins, in a botanical family unrelated in any way to the current, except at the highest, Kingdom, level (*detail addicts, see the footnote at the bottom of this article). As for why real currants were banned from America for 82 years, read the story, a…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Gourmet Chocolates

We love getting gifts from Chocolat Céleste (it means “heavenly chocolate” in French), a Minneapolis-based artisan chocolatier. The ganache fillings are delicious and the cocoa-butter transfers that decorate the tops are lovely. If you’re looking for a special box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, head over to the website and take your pick. Gift boxes…
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