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Hand-crafted
in Portland, Oregon, these delicious
chocolates are sophisticated and beautifully crafted and
feature contemporary flavors.
Holiday Truffle Collections
paper-wrapped & ribboned
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9 pc
Holiday Collection:
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9 pc
All Dark Collection:
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4 pc Winter Truffles:
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Rocky Road Tree:
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GUYAUX
Truffles
in a Wicker Basket
Rich, soft,
true French truffles - one of our all-time best sellers.
These are not chocolate-covered truffles, but are the
classic French truffle - an irregular nugget of rich, soft
chocolate ganache, simply rolled in dark,
un-sweetened cocoa powder.
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Uber-Rich
Drinking Chocolate
Try some
super-rich drinking chocolate from one of these top
brands-
Marie Belle
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Aztec Dark
cacao
20oz
$22.00
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Sarabeth's - Hot Chocolate Parisienne
16oz
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Stollen
One of the oldest of the
European Christmas cakes, Stollen originated in Germany as
a simple cake baked in celebration of the
winter solstice. Over time, given its characteristic shape
and fold, stollen became a Christian symbol of the Christ
child wrapped in swaddling clothes. Today, everyone loves
its exquisite flavor and anxiously awaits it arrival in
the bakeries.
Reimann Original Dresdner Stollen
26.4 oz.
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Blooming Tea
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Assorted packs
of 8 blooming teas
(2 each of 4 styles)
$16.00
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Blooming flower glass Teapot
$25.00
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Silk Boxes containing
5 different
Chinese Blooming Teas
with 12 teas total
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Olio Novello from Sicily
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began several years ago with a few modest cases of
early-harvest oil has turned into a
holiday ‘must have’ for our customers. Olio Novello is a limited quantity, early release,
first-pressed, new-harvest extra virgin olive oil that is
a taste enthusiast’s dream. Very green in color, sharply
defined and seriously fruity in flavor, only a small
amount of this muddy-looking, fresh pressed oil is bottled for
immediate use and air shipped across the Atlantic.
Celebratory and brash in style, this 'fresh' oil signals
the beginning of the olive harvest and our holiday season!
Barbera Olio Novello
1 Liter -
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Acetaia Terra del Tuono
~ Balsamic Capricci
Seasonings ~
Citrus, Pear and
Strawberry
This family
producer of ‘Condimento’ quality balsamic vinegar wowed us
with the flavors in their line of ‘Capricci’ vinegars. By
carefully adding concentrated fruit essence to their aged
vinegar they achieve richly flavored, complex and elegant
vinegars that can be used as ‘seasonings’. Aging and careful
crafting gives these vinegars a low acidity, which means
that you can use these vinegars to add flavor to salads,
grilled meats, and sweet white fish. Don’t forget to also
drizzle over ice cream, ripe fruits or aged cheese.
Citrus
Balsamic
3.38 oz
$38.00
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Pear
Balsamic
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Balsamic
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2008 Tea Sampler
Tea Trekkers
Tea Enthusiast Tea Collecton
For this holiday season,
our sampler features thirteen distinctive teas, and a
descriptive, informational booklet and tea brewing
instructions. This tea collection includes tastes of
all six of the great classes of tea:
Black Tea, Oolong Tea, Green Tea, White Tea,
Yellow Tea, Pu-erh, plus two Scented Teas.
Add a copy of our book,
The Story of Tea
for a terrific gift for a tea enthusiast !
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Plum Pudding
Charles Dickens would feel right at home if you served him
one of these moist fruited puddings. Our selection
features classic puddings from Wilkin & Sons Ltd ' Tiptree.'
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Plum Pudding
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More Tiptree Holiday Classics:
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Brandy Butter
6 oz.
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Christmas Preserves
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Holiday Hours:
Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday:
10 AM -
5:30 PM
Open Dec 30th and 31st & Jan
2nd and 3rd
Thursday
January 1st
closed
Additional Hours:
Mondays:
December 1st, 8th, 15th and 22nd
10 AM - 5:30 PM
Sunday
December 21st
10 AM - 4 PM
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Rare Tea from
Around the Globe |
Silver Hao Ya
Jasmine
This delightful jasmine tea is
unique among jasmine teas. Produced in Zhejiang Province using
the most classic jasmine-scenting methodology, Silver Hao Ya
Jasmine tea has a focused, clean and thorough jasmine scenting
over an underlying fresh but soft tea base flavor. Silver Hao Ya
shows a perfect marriage of the base tea’s flavor combined with
the ‘stolen’ aroma of fresh jasmine flowers, built-up from
repeated introductions of new batches of fresh flower blossoms.
The creation of this tea takes weeks to make from start to
finish, and is a challenge to the jasmine-tea-crafters. We are
pleased to offer this special jasmine tea to both jasmine tea
enthusiasts and those wishing to taste an excellent example of
this class of tea.Click
here for more details of jasmine tea production in China
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Silver Hao Ya Jasmine tea
Golden Guanyin
Black
This very rare tea comes to us from the Wuyi Mountains area in
the northwest corner of Fujian Province. A unique manufacture,
this black tea is produced in an artisan style that yields a
soft, smooth but complex flavor. The leaf used for this
exquisite tea is plucked from tea bushes of the Camellia
sinensis varietal Tieguanyin, which is leaf that is used to make
the famous ball-rolled style of oolong tea that hails from
southern Fujian Province. However, in the Wuyi region several
artisan producers use this leaf variety to make a very unusual
and delicious black tea. TieGuanYin has a great story and legend
behind it, which we relate in our book
The Story of Tea.
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Green Tea:
50 Hot Drinks, Cool Quenchers and
Sweet and Savory Dishes
by Mary Lou Heiss
2006 Harvard
Common Press
 This
book puts a new twist on green tea. Featuring original
recipes created by Cooks Shop Here co-owner Mary Lou, a
wealth of full-color photographs highlights these recipes in
vivid color. This book features classic and contemporary
recipes for hot tea as well as iced tea, and also
incorporates green tea into sweet and savory dishes, fruit
smoothies, cocktails, entrees and desserts.
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The Story of Tea: A Cultural
History and Drinking Guide
by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J.
Heiss
2007 Ten Speed Press
This book examines the six
great classes of tea, and explains how tradition, culture
and terroir combine to create the distinctive teas of the
world. From the fresh-tasting, sweet, and delicate green
teas of China to the aromatic, flavorful and bracing black
teas of India, each tea is as unique as a fingerprint. Also
included is a full-color tasting guide for 30 teas to help
tea enthusiasts identify different styles of teas and
lean the lingo of tea flavor and aroma – both are a sure way
to guarantee an incredible tea drinking experience.
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Have a copy autographed and inscribed
for the tea lover on your Christmas list ! ~
2 % of the proceeds from the sales of our book in our store
and on our website will be donated to Mercy Corps for the
humanitarian work they do for tea farmers in
Darjeeling & Assam India
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Italian Chocolate
'Cigars'
Beautifully wrapped and devilishly rich chocolate treats
from Venchi. Each life-size 'cigar' is approx. 6" long
and richly filled.
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Aromatico
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aromatic extra dark cocoa paste with a
double layer of pure dark chocolate -
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Orange
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dark chocolate
praline filling with candied Sicilian orange peel
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Italian Fig Salami
An Italian
confections wrapped to look like a ‘salami.’ This
specialty of Calabria, Italy is comprised of finely ground
local Cosenza figs,
orange peel, cinnamon, anisette, rum and vanilla.
After the ingredients are blended together, the confection
is shaped, dipped in dark chocolate and wrapped.
7 oz.
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San Giacomo
Essenza
Balsamic
Vinegar
 This
small bottle contains a precious quantity of lovely
artisan-made balsamic vinegar that possesses a seductive,
syrupy texture and nuanced flavors of nuts, berries and
chocolate. It is deep ruby-amber in color, and has backbone
and structure like a well-made wine
1.35 oz
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Christmas Tea
from
Dammann Frères, France
This venerable
French company began as the official tea purveyor to the
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique whose luxury ocean liners
the "Ile de France" and the "Normandie" were known as the
"French Line." Today, Dammann Freres still searches for the
best quality teas for the pleasure of all tea drinkers.
White Christmas Tea
Dammann White Christmas Tea is made with white
tea from China, and the addition of purple blueberry petals,
almonds, cherries, with a dash of spices and ginger.
2.65 oz -
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Black
Christmas Tea
Dammann Black Christmas Tea is a blend of Ceylon
and China black teas, flavored with the traditional aromas
of Christmas : orange, pineapple, caramel, and cherry,
scattered with orange rinds and pieces of fruits.
4.41 oz - - $18.00
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Hot Drinks: Cider, Coffee, Tea, Hot Chocolate, Spiced
Punch, and Spirits
by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J.
Heiss,
2007 Ten Speed Press
Nothing warms up
frigid fingers and toes like a mug of spicy mulled cider or
creamy hot chocolate. In our HOT DRINKS book we present 50
original recipes for mixed coffees, teas, punches, cocoas,
ciders, and cocktails, each of which is perfectly suited for
cozying up by the fire or heating up holiday family
get-togethers. Featuring the classics (Hot Buttered Rum, Hot
Toddies) as well as new twists on old favorites (Candy Cane
Mojito, Sassy Hot Root Beer Float, Snowflake Vanilla White
Chocolate), our collection of cold-weather warmers is sure
to chase away the winter chills.
Add a bag of our freshly roasted coffee, some rich drinking
chocolate and some aromatic black tea to an autographed copy
of Hot Drinks and Voila – instant holiday gift !
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2008 OLIVE OIL SAMPLER
This
year’s sampler includes twelve
tasting-sized bottles of distinctive estate bottled extra virgin
olive oils from the Mediterranean plus three
vinegars (one balsamic, one wine, and one sherry
vinegar). Add a hand-made Italian olive oil dipping dish to
this sampler for a gift that will be sure to please taste
enthusiasts!
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FESTIVE EUROPEAN HOLIDAY TREATS:
PANFORTE & PANETTONE
Sinatti Panforte
We
are thrilled to offer these traditional confections
from this venerable Tuscan Pasticcerie. We think
that you will enjoy these quintessential sweets of
Tuscany from this fine artisan baker.
Who can resist such sweet riches when served with a
cup of strong coffee of Vin Santo.
Panforte Margherita…
the most traditional
version of this flat, firm, dense round cake, Margherita is a rich concentration of candied orange
peel, lemon peel, citron, almonds, hazelnuts and
spices that is crowned with powdered sugar.
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Albertengo Panettone
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Alto Classico:
high-top, plain-top cake
(no nuts or glaze) which contains raisins, citron, and
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Albertengo
Alto Albicocca:
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Bel Aria Panettone
Gold and white paper wrapped:
our most popular everyday panettone !
1lb
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