GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Tim Tam Cookies

These cookies are like potato chips—we bet you can’t eat just one! Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE. If you don’t get your hands on some Pepperidge Farm Tim Tam Cookies this month, you’ll have to wait six months until Target stores start stocking them again (when they can be shipped from Australia—where they…
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GOURMET GIVEAWAY: Fancypants Bakery Cookies

The bunnies, carrots and chicks are almost too cute to eat. Photo courtesy Fancypants Bakery. The Easter Bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail in less than three weeks. To prepare for his arrival, enter to win a gift box of gourmet cookies from this week’s Gourmet Giveaway sponsor: Fancypants Bakery. Their “Great Big…
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CONTEST: For Balsamic Vinegar Lovers

Balsamic vinegar lovers: Zingerman’s, a specialty food retailer/e-tailer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is offering you the opportunity to win a free trip to the La Vecchia Dispensa balsamic vinegar factory in Italy. “Factory” is a relative term: This is fine balsamic vinegar production facility, and the “factory” is one of the charming, centuries-old buildings in…
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EVENT: Donate $1 To Save The World

Much of the world has no running water, but with your $1 contribution they can have safe drinking water. Photo courtesy UNICEF. Think of all of the places in your travels where you’ve been warned, “Don’t drink the water!” It isn’t any safer for the people who live there than for tourists passing through. At…
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GOURMET TRAVEL: Napa Valley Mustard Festival

A prior year’s winner in the phototgraphy competition, by Sally Wood. We wish we had gotten advance notice of the 17th annual Napa Valley Mustard Festival, to be held next weekend, March 12 -14 in Napa, California. If you can get there, you’re in for a treat. The vineyards, blooming with wild mustard, are breathtaking.…
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