Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey With Great Chocolate Flavor

[1] Cocoa Bomb on the rocks (photo © Heritage Distilling). [2] A cocoa bomb, inspiration for the whiskey (photo © Williams Sonoma).   Here’s a different type of chocolate for Halloween…or Christmas…or Valentine’s Day…or whenever: Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey from Heritage Distilling. Heritage is the largest independently owned craft distillery in the Pacific Northwest. It’s…
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Mozart Chocolate Pumpkin Spice, A Treat For The Season

Why give a box of chocolates to your foodie friends for Halloween and Thanksgiving, when you can introduce them to a “spirited” treat: Mozart Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Liqueur. For more than 60 years, the Mozart Distillerie has been making cream liqueur in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (hence the brand name). The…
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Calvados, The Finest Apple Brandy From France

From the orchards of Normandy, France comes Calvados, at its simplest an apple brandy. But it is the best apple brandy (or more precisely eau-de-vie*) in the world. Once fer­men­ted, apple juice becomes cider, and, once dis­tilled, the cider becomes a cider eau-de-vie. The cider that begins thew process is pressed from specially grown cider…
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Sfoglini Pasta, Premium Artisan Pasta From The Hudson Valley

  With National Pasta Day on October 17th, our Top Pick Of The Week is Sfoglini Pasta, a brand of fine artisan pasta that’s Italian in heritage but all-American, made in the Hudson Valley of New York State with the finest organic golden semolina* and three specialty grains from North American farms: einkorn, hemp, and…
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A Fun Halloween Gift: An Edible Haunted Gingerbread House

This high-quality gingerbread house is “haunted” for Halloween. Designed exclusively for Mackenzie Ltd., purveyors of fine gourmet foods, this spooky house is 100% edible. Handmade with quality gingerbread, creepy (and tasty) characters decorate the house, along with candy corn, gumdrops, and other treats. Delightful and delicious for kids and adults alike, the gingerbread house gets…
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