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wasabigelatine’s 2011 holiday gift guide

Monday, December 12, 2011

Bright stars on coasters and boxes of toffee Soap for your mittens and booze for your coffee Cookbooks with cuisine so mindboggling These are a few of my favorite things this year!   Isn’t it more fun to give out handwritten recipe cards rather than clicking the “send to a friend” button? Rifle Paper Co. [...]

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wasabigelatine’s 2009 holiday gift guide

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

This year, it’s twenty items for $20 or under. Enjoy! Honey and honey mustard gift set – $12, Chicago Honey Co-op.  Located on Chicago’s West Side, Chicago Honey Co-op practices sustainable beekeeping and honey production while providing jobs for the city’s underemployed. This gift set is a great way to sample their products and support [...]

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The emperor’s new candy

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

London artist Greetje van Helmond creates lovely jewelry out of sugar crystals like the chunky necklace and ring pictured above. But with prices starting at £120 a piece — over $240 for a bauble that’s history if it falls into a cup of coffee — you can buy sugar for enough edible rocks to outbling [...]

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Frango Mints in a tube…and a bottle

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Skin care and beauty line philosophy has introduced two Frango Mint-scented products just in time for the holidays. Inspired by Marshall Field’s famous chocolate mint meltaways, these bath and beauty treats smell so good you’ll be tempted to squeeze them straight into your mouth. You can almost do that with the frango mint diet lip [...]

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In defense of stemless wine glasses

Thursday, October 11, 2007

(From left to right: Spiegelau vinovino Chardonnay wine glass, Riedel O Chardonnay wine tumbler, Bodum So Long Stemless red wine glass, Crate & Barrel wine tumbler) I was rummaging through my kitchen display cabinet today and noticed that I have more stemless wine glasses than traditional ones — eight Riedel O Chardonnay, six Riedel O [...]

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