Local Food-Related Gift Ideas?

[magpie-leah.livejournal.com]

Howdy everyone. I want to thank someone with a nice gift-basket-y food assortment from a local establishment. (Somerville or Cambridge would be awesome.)

My first thought was a dozen cupcakes from Kick Ass or some baked goods from Petsi Pies but I wonder if anyone has any healthier suggestions in case the people I'm thanking are not so much into all the sugar and flour of baked goods?

Thanks so much if you have any suggestions! I might just end up going the Harry & David route but I'd love to hear any ideas...

Comments

[jadelennox]

go to the farmer's market tomorrow, and buy delicious things -- berries, Taza chocolate, ginger goat cheese, etc.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Ginger goat cheese?! This sounds divine. What rock have I been living under?!

[jadelennox]

it is divine! It is desert, delicious like candy, delicious warm or cold. The goat cheese people at the Davis Square Farmer's market sell it, although they often run out by the end of the market. If you have a schedule that would prevent you from getting to the Farmer's market until late, and you get there and they are all out, ask them to save you some of it the next week, and he will put in the cooler with your name on it.

[soft-shoulder.livejournal.com]

Wednesdays are farmers market? I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been yet. So busy with life. I'm not even sure where in the square it is ha.

[ron_newman]

It's in the Day Street parking lot. If you miss it, go to Union Square on Saturday morning for another market.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Noon to six (so legitimately hard for busy people to get to). But yeah, the ginger goat cheese is something else. Also highly recommended: whatever Taza and Hi-Rise are handing out as samples (mmmm, pain d'epices); getting some beefsteaky heirloom tomatoes, the local mozzarella, and some When Pigs Fly bread (not at the market, but close!) and making grilled cheesed & tomato sandwiches (I will live on those for weeks once the tomatoes come in ;). And pepperoni rolls from uhhh whatever the other bakery there is (pepperoni rolls are this West Virginia thing, and up here usually the closest you can get is ham & cheese croissants (not the same at all), so their existence as the market is one big nostalgia-fest for me).