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Lao Gan Ma Chili Crisp Sauce With Roasted Chili Pepper Flakes - Tao Huabi started as a street vendor selling noodles and sauce to students near her hometown in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou. In the mid-1990s, she began to bottle
Manuka Honey - Manuka honey comes from New Zealand, where it’s made by bees that feed on the nectar of the manuka tree. Their honey is dark and thick. Its aroma has been
Mark Oldman’s Wine Collection -
Mayorga 100% Organic Cubano Coffee - For years I bought coffee roasted weekly and locally at a shop that sold nothing but gourmet beans. Colombian cost $16 a pound. The shop had rewards cards --- buy
Nespresso Milk Frother - Luxury items scare me. You get along without them, you weaken and get one, suddenly you can’t imagine life without it. Your next thought: There’s more great stuff out there,
Never Too Hungover: Hangover Prevention Drink - I drink so rarely that, when pressed, I tell a joke. (I am Jewish. I can tell it. If you’re not Jewish, you really can’t --- though you can laugh
Omega-3 Complex Softgels - Pascal's Wager reminds us that if you're not sure of the existence of God, it's logically smarter to believe God does exist --- just in case He really
OXO 3-Blade Tabletop Spiralizer - I’m the guy who loves zucchini, buys more than he should, and watches it become a science experiment in his refrigerator. Correction: I used to be that guy. Now I have a
Power Snackers Lemon Chia-Crunch - A friend was coming over for a business lunch. One hour, in and out. A salad? Fine. In 5 minutes, I chopped lettuce, red onion and apple, cut up some
Pu-erh Tea - SAVEUR: The gourmet magazine makes an interesting point: "Pu-erh’s earthy depth and strong body make it a perfect candidate for a coffee replacement." Alice Waters drinks Pu-erh tea. And swears by
Rejuvenation: Beauty, Diet, Home, Spirit - Rejuvenation. It’s what we do after long holidays. Because you watched all ten hours of Making A Murderer. Ate. Drank. And now you have resolutions. The gym. A neater home.
Smart Snark: Anne Taintor coffee mugs & more - When the Small Person buys a t-shirt, it expresses quintessential 14-year-old attitude. For example: National Sarcasm Society: Like we need your support. So I wasn’t surprised when she gave her mother
Snak Yard Shiitake Mushroom - It was a fancy party, in a penthouse with significant art and a waiter carrying a tray of roasted fingerling potatoes with crème fraîche and caviar, so it seemed strange
SOS Chefs - It’s hard to tell the difference between the shopping streets of Manhattan, Greenwich, Palm Beach, Paris, you-name-it --- the same stores are everywhere. The one-of-a-kind shops, the small boutiques? The
Starbucks - Howard Schultz knows a thing or two about creativity. Historically, he invented the idea of mass-market coffee houses. As CEO, he was the original architect of
Tea Forté - There are people living in tents in refugee camps and sick people crowding town halls to tell their representatives they will die if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, and
The 2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Food Edition - HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDES The Holiday Gift Guide The Food Edition Gifts for Kids The Luxury Edition ---- Bertolt Brecht wrote, “First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.” Agreed. At the holidays, food seems to
The Head Butler Guide to Great Coffee - There is often a disconnect between people in distant lands who make a product and the much wealthier people in societies like ours who use the product. Coffee is an
There was a 25% tariff on French wine last fall. There’s a 100% tariff just around the corner. - Some of the leaders of what used to be called the free world were having a chat at a free world gathering. These are buttoned-up people. But they had an irresistible
