MOTHER’S DAY: Wellness Kitchen Mats

If your mother (wife, daughter, etc.) spends a lot of time standing on a hard kitchen floor, improve her life instantly with a Welllness Mat. Every person who’s stood on our Wellness Mat and has purchased one. (No, we’re not commissioned salespeople, although we did receive one as a gift.) The revolutionary anti-fatigue floor mats…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Gourmet Chocolate Bars From Jcoco

Just in time for Mother’s Day gift-giving comes a new line of gourmet chocolate bars. They’re made by an old hand in the industry, the founder of Seattle Chocolate. It’s the best thing the company has done to date, a new degree of sophistication and elegance from a popular regional chocolatier. Every detail, from the…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Chocolate Ganache Pups

If you know a mom who loves chocolate and dogs, is there a better Mother’s Day gift than these chocolate pup bonbons? Made by hand by Gearhearts Chocolates, the milk chocolate bonbons are filled with silky chocolate ganache, which is lightly infused with handmade peanut butter. And they’re guilt-free: Five percent of sales of Peanut…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Sweets For People Who Don’t Like Chocolate

Still wondering what to get your non-chocolate-loving Valentine? Here are five delectable options: 1. VALENTINE COOKIES. We love classic Linzer cookies, filled with raspberry jam. And big iced cookies are always fun. We picked up the cookies in the photo from Broadway Bakery, an artisan baker in New York City that uses lots of top-quality…
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PRODUCT: Sarments de Médoc, Chocolate Twigs

In French, a sarment is the graceful, slender shoot of the grapevine. The Médoc region of Bordeaux knows all about them: It’s perhaps the most prestigious area of the most prestigious wine-growing region in the world. The Médoc is home to four of the five “first growth” Bordeaux wines: Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Latour, Château…
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