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The holiday season means different things for different people but one thing is for sure: it's full of GOOD food!
Embark on a culinary journey this holiday season with our curated collection of unique gifts for foodies. From cheese to chocolate to charming earrings, here are some of Canada's most delectable delights:
1. This updated Canadian classic, more delicious than ever. At Granville Island’s Northern Bars, this beloved treat is reimagined as a boujee and highly-giftable bon-bon.
2. Jewellery shaped as shamrock shakes and s'mores that they can rock all year round from Clay by Ally. Founded by Ally Reid from Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, these favourite seasonal treats are immortalized using polymer clay.
3. A whole box filled with curated goodies for the biggest sweet tooth in your life. At Black Market Provisions, a beloved food spot in Winnipeg, the tempting offerings range from gourmet hot chocolate to addicting chocolate-covered cashews.
4. This coffee's ‘bark’ is indeed as good as its bite. Using all organic and fair trade beans, Rescue Coffee urges people to ‘sip a cup, save a pup’.
5. This punchy spice mix from the Prince Edward Island Preserve Company is the perfect, surprise stocking stuffer. Because once they try it on your oven fries or scalloped potatoes, they'll be hooked.
6. This flight of honey is a super sweet deal for an extra sweet person in your life! Because what's one surefire way to sweeten up their holidays? A flight of six different kinds of honey from Leystone Farms in Luskville, Quebec.
7. This beloved cookbook full of community spirit for any foodie that already has every cookbook. Because they definitely need a copy of Nirjutit Imaani: Edible Animals of the Sea in their life.
8. This year-long gift that will make them grin and say "Cheese!" Balderson Village Cheese Store offers a generous, monthly box filled with creamy cheese from their own dairy as well as other select producers.
9. This hot tea from a cold land. Laughing Lichen, a Yellowknife-based company, sells phenomenal teas from local natural products, including spruce tips, wild nettle, raspberry leaf, and more. They round out their offerings with dried mushrooms, berries, salts, and spices.
10. These jams and jellies which are famous among celebs are sure to be beloved by your foodie friends. Galloping Cows Fine Foods might have started on a Cape Breton farm but its jewel-like jellies and jams are equally comfortable at the Oscars, the Golden Globes, and TIFF gifting suits.
11. These funky mustards that combine art and spice. Thanks to the gift shop at the Remai Modern (Saskatoon’s museum of modern and contemporary art), these yummy delights from now ship nation-wide.
12. These gorgeous wooden boards and spoons will add polish to any kitchen. Foodies and budding chefs will love any of the gorgeous, handcrafted cutting boards, serving boards, wooden spoons, spatulas, and much more from Bang Nguyen’s shop, Bang ‘N Design.
13. This yummy syrup that will make you forget about maple (yes, even as Canadians!). Maple syrup as a gift? So last year. Savvy foodies in and around Dawson City know that it’s all about birch syrup, Uncle Berwyn’s Birch Syrup in particular.
We want to hear from you! What foodie favourite is making its way to your shopping cart this holiday season?
