2021 Gift Guide (Edible)
We eat therefore we shop. It’s hard finding the right gift so leave it to the Digest editors to do the legwork of finding the most useful and most tasty gems this holiday season.
These edible goods are some of our absolute favorite eats, believe us when we say we love them. So shop for those on your “nice” list and treat yourself this holiday season!
Cheers!
-Digest HQ
Heritage Foods - Steak of the Month Club
We all know Heritage Foods is the purveyor of the best and most humanely harvested meats. Heritage Foods works to preserve endangered species of livestock from extinction. Originally they learned about the plight of endangered foods through Slow Food, a non-profit organization created in Italy in 1986, in part to protest the opening of a McDonald’s on the Spanish Steps in Rome, and to bring attention to endangered regional cuisines and ingredients.
This Steak of the Month club seems like a dream come true for that protein lover on your holiday gift list. Check out everything that Heritage Foods has to offer. You won’t be disappointed. You will be hungry for more!
Receive enough steak for 3-6 people every month with this monthly subscription. Click the link above for more info.
Ribeye, strip, hanger, short rib, tenderloin, porterhouse, and more from the best breeds.
The nuance of each cut and breed is spectacular, and this is the best way to discover the spectrum of heritage taste and flavor in easy-going monthly deliveries.
-Digest HQ
Peppermint Pig
The Peppermint Pig is holiday tradition in Saratoga Springs, NY. Each pig is cast of hard candy similar to a candy cane and is a festive pink color. The pig is honored in Victorian holiday tradition as a symbol of good health, happiness and prosperity. Smash the piggy and enjoy some peppermint candy that is so much more tastier than a sickly sweet candy cane.
-Miranda Hughes
Good Vodka
Good Vodka is distilled entirely from discarded coffee fruit, an innovation that gives the spirit both its sustainability and its big, bold flavor. Good Vodka represents a new high-water mark for the sustainable spirits movement: it's a carbon offset you can make into a cocktail.
-Digest HQ
Tre Marie Panettone
Every year around this time my ma sends me down to Colluccio's in Borough Park for a Tre Marie Panettone. You know it's good when an old lady with a gold christ hanging from her neck tells you, "oh yeah, that's the good one." My ma prefers the one with raisins and dries oranges and apricots. But they got one with chocolate chips and one that's just plain-jane for all you purists out there. It makes for excellent french toast.
-Dante Pilkington
Jasper Hill Farm Oma Cheese
Oma is an American original, made by Sebastian von Trapp on his family's dairy farm in Waitsfield, Vermont. An approachable washed-rind, tomme-style cheese, Oma is made from the organic milk of the von Trapp's primarily Jersey breed cows.
Oma balances pungent and sweet flavors with aromas of roasted nuts, cured meat and cultured butter. The paste is soft, almost pudding-like, but never runny. The thin, orange rind, often overlaid with white flora, is an earthy foil to the richness of the paste.
This cheese is SOOO GOOOD! Like seriously, so fuckin’ good.
-Miranda Hughes
Baby Angel 2020 by Spumoni
100% Pinot Grigio
WINEMAKING PRACTICES: The Pinot Grigio was picked early in the morning on October, 3rd 2020.
It was an hours drive south to the winery.
It was a very brisk, dark, and fog filled morning, but we were just pleased that the smoke and fires of September were behind us.
The 1.6 tons were not destemmed.
We direct pressed the grapes, in hopes that the limited time on skins would develop a very clean and introspective expression of Pinot Grigio grown in Eola-Amity Hills.
The juice stayed in neutral oak for the next 3 months while it went through its primary fermentation and then malolactic fermentation, all in barrel.
After fermentation was complete we stirred the lees weekly.
Every bottle was filled, labeled, and waxed by hand.
Spumoni Wine is here for you.
Eola-Amity Hills, OR
Elevation: 650-700 ft
Planted on a southern slope.
12.5% ABV
No additions, subtractions, or innoculations.
-Digest HQ
Yellowbird Hot Sauce
Organic Carrot. Citrus. Garlic. HEAT! Ever since we tried this stuff in Austin we can’t get enough. It’s a perfect hot sauce to slather on every meal. (It’s also a great addition to a Sunday Bloody Mary) We used to buy it in bulk from REI and Bed Bath before Yellowbird made it’s way to NY. Thank goddess, our prayers have been answered!
Scoville Heat Unit Rating (SHU) 15,580 – 54,530
-Lucca Zeray
Li-Lac Chocolates
Li-Lac Chocolates is Manhattan's oldest chocolate house. Lucky for us, they built out a chocolate factory at Industry City in Sunset Park where we can look in through oversized windows and see the chocolate-making in action. High quality chocolate with exquisite taste, Li-Lac is a staple for holiday gifts. You can get anything from a chocolate Empire State Building, to a chocolate champagne bottle, to some of the best truffles and caramel squares, the list goes on! We personally love the orange and lemon peels that are candied and dipped in dark chocolate.
-Miranda Hughes
Chile Pequin Ristras
We stumbled across The Chile Shop a few years ago when we were in Santa Fe and proceeded to import 2 mini ristras back to NY. These are extra hot, Fiery Pequin Chiles are woven into a beautiful ristra. Hang them in the kitchen and snap a few peppers off when you’re cooking and you’ll thank us later. I believe these also come in a wreath form which just screams holidaze in my book.
-Miranda Hughes
Nueske's Bone-In Ham
Send your meat-loving friends and family this Wisconsin classic this winter. Nueske's is a fantastic family-run small business and their pork is outta this world. And the ham bones make for excellent soup stocks to keep you warm and well fed in the dark days of January.
-Dante Pilkington