Category: Giftable

PRODUCT: Drinking With The Hatfields & The McCoys

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Top: Heritage hooch in a glass jug. Bottom: Three generations of Hatfields. Photos courtesy The Legendary Hatfield & McCoy Whiskey.   From our tween years, we remember the expression “feuding like the Hatfields and the McCoys” (not that we were personally involved in an epic feud). The hostilities between two clans living in the Appalachian…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Shpickles Pickled Vegetables, Shmolives Pickled Olives

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Last summer, when scouting a Brooklyn food festival, we came across Shpickles, Shmolives and Shnuts. They’re made by hand by a mom-and-son company called Brooklyn Whatever. Mom, a social worker and son, a chef, started a family business to add more flavor to pickles, olives and nuts. The result: unique, assertively spiced, better-for-you snacks, garnishes,…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Sweets We’d Like To Receive

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If you’re on the hunt for Valentine chocolate, you probably don’t have to hunt too hard. Even our drugstore looks like a chocolate shop. But here are some yummy items we enjoy, year after year. CHOCOLATE CHERRIES FROM CHOCLATIQUE Most of us grew up hoping to get the chocolate covered cherry in the box of…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Low Calorie & No Calorie Gifts

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Top: The Keurig 2.0 H200, which makes single cups as well as carafes. Bottom: Rick’s Picks: Great flavor, few calories.   As you eye the sea of Valentine chocolates, what can you get for loved ones who can’t have (or don’t care for) chocolate? Some people don’t want the calories, others can’t have the caffeine…
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VALENTINE’S DAY: Chocolate Stout, Sriracha Stout & Moonstruck Beer Chocolates

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Special chocolate craft brews for your Valentine. Photo courtesy Rogue Ales.   Here’s what to get a beer-loving Valentine: two stouts created specifically for the occasion and some hot stuff. Rogue Chocolate Stout, with a special Valentine-red label on a 750 ml bottle, is Rogue’s platinum award-winning Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout (one of the highest rated…
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