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Art of Appreciation Gift Baskets Naturally Beautiful Gourmet Food and Snacks Gift Set

This handsome wooden fruit basket is naturally beautiful, piled up high and filled with a combination of natural and organic gourmet goodies that not only taste great – are good for you too! It’s a perfect selection for health minded gift recipients, or those who are very selective in the natural food products they enjoy. Once the goodies are gone, the basket makes a great organizer and catch all to grace any kitchens décor. Includes: All Natural Veggie Stix Snack, All Natural Crackers, All Natural Cranberry Harvest Fruit Snack Mix, Organic Pear Candy, All Natural/Gluten Free Bumble Bar, All Natural California Pistachios, All Natural Alaska Smokehouse Salmon, Organic Art of Tea Green Tea, Organic Art of Tea Red Kuai Cocktail Tea, Organic Cherry Jam, Organic Apple Jam, Ms Mays Natural Fruit Snacks, artfully presented in a Wood Crate Fruit Box. Each gift is hand crafted with attention to detail, shrink wrapped and tied with a bow for presentation, ready for gift giving.  To include a personalized gift message or to notify your recipient who purchased this thoughtful gift, you must select GIFT during checkout, allowing you to input your own personalized best wishes. This is an original gift basket arrangement designed by Art of Appreciation Gift Baskets.

The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from around the World

  Winner of the 2013 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship, and a New York Times bestseller, The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition, and even economics, this is primarily a compendium of practical information—how the processes work; parameters for safety; techniques for effective preservation; troubleshooting; and more. With two-color illustrations and extended resources, this book provides essential wisdom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gleaners, foragers, and food lovers of any kind who want to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for arguably the oldest form of food preservation, and part of the roots of culture itself. Readers will find detailed information on fermenting vegetables; sugars into alcohol (meads, wines, and ciders); sour tonic beverages; milk; grains and starchy tubers; beers (and other grain-based alcoholic beverages); beans; seeds; nuts; fish; meat; and eggs, as well as growing mold cultures, using fermentation in agriculture, art, and energy production, and considerations for commercial enterprises. Sandor Katz has introduced what will undoubtedly remain a classic in food literature, and is the first—and only—of its kind.

At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well

A sophisticated vegetarian cookbook with all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen, cooking in the most nourishing and delicious ways—from the foundations of stocking a pantry and understanding your ingredients, to preparing elaborate seasonal feasts. Imagine you are in a bright, breezy kitchen. There are large bowls on the counter full of lush, colorful produce and a cake stand stacked with pretty whole-grain muffins. On the shelves live rows of glass jars containing grains, seeds, beans, nuts, and spices. You open the fridge and therein you find a bottle of fresh almond milk, cooked beans, soaking grains, dressings, ferments, and seasonal produce. This is Amy Chaplin’s kitchen. It is a heavenly place, and this book will make it your kitchen too.With her love of whole food and knowledge as a chef, Chaplin has written a book that will inspire you to eat well at every meal. Part One lays the foundation for stocking the pantry. This is not just a list of food and equipment; it’s real working information—how and why to use ingredients—and an arsenal of simple recipes for daily nourishment. Also included throughout are tips on living a whole food lifestyle: planning weekly menus, why organic is important, composting, plastics vs. glass, drinking tea, doing a whole food cleanse, and much more.Part Two is a collection of recipes (most of which are naturally gluten-free) celebrating vegetarian cuisine in its brightest, whole, sophisticated form. Black rice breakfast pudding with coconut and banana? Yes, please. Beet tartlets with poppy seed crust and white bean fennel filling? I’ll take two. Fragrant eggplant curry with cardamom basmati rice, apricot chutney, and cucumber lime raita? Invite company. Roasted fig raspberry tart with toasted almond crust? There is always room for this kind of dessert. If you are an omnivore, you will delight in this book for its playful use of produce and know-how in balancing food groups. If you are a vegetarian, this book will become your best friend, always there for you when you’re on your own, and ready to lend a hand when you’re sharing food with family and friends. If you are a vegan, you can cook nearly every recipe in this book and feed your body well in the truest sense. This is whole food for everyone.

Numi Organic Tea Flowering Gift Set in Handcrafted Mahogany Bamboo Chest: Glass Teapot & 6 Flowering Tea Blossoms

Packaged in an exotic hand-made dark mahogany bamboo case, this Flowering Tea Gift Set is filled with six bouquets of tea leaves that blossom into a myriad of flavors from sweet and subtle to rich and bold. The stylish glass teapot included is ideal to observe the flowering tea petals. A simple luxury that heightens the tea experience and makes for a conversation piece, these Leaves of Art are a true tea lover’s bliss. We invite you to experience the simple elegance of a true tea transformation–elevating loose leaf tea to the next level; Art. Requiring no tea bag or strainer, flowering teas are environmentally kind as well as easy to serve; just use the glass teapot (included). The gift set includes six varieties: Dragon Lily: White Tea with orange Lily petals and osmanthus flowers has a velvety apricot flavor. Jasmine Lovers: White Tea leaves and string of jasmine flowers releases honey nectar taste. Lavender Dream: White Tea leaves and crisp, aromatic Lavender flowers compliment a tangy Hibiscus flower. Shooting Star: Green Tea and pink Amaranth bulbs have a buttery fragrance with fruity notes. Sunset Oolong: Oolong Tea leaves and Lily flower have nutty richness highlighted by peach. Golden Jasmine: Golden-tipped Black Tea scented with delicate jasmine imparts hints of chocolate.