10 slow food Christmas gift ideas
Good, clean and fair gifts for the slow food advocate on your list.
Photo: tammra/Flickr - A regional cookbook – Most bookstores have a regional section, even if they are national chains. You should be able to find cookbooks that focus on the seasonal foods of your region written by those who live and cook in the region.
- A regional vegetable gardening book – Generic gardening books are helpful, but if you want to know when the earliest date you can plant your tomatoes is, a regional book is more helpful.
- Seeds - Buy an armload of organic and heirloom seeds to fill up a stocking.
- Honey - Give a jar of local honey. You can find sources for honey at honeylocator.com or localharvest.com.
- Wine - Put a pretty bow on a bottle of wine from a local winery. You don’t necessarily have to run to the winery to buy it if you don’t have the time. Many wine stores have a regional section.
- Slow Food membership - Purchase a membership to Slow Food USA in the gift recipients name if he doesn’t already have one.
- Coffee - Give her a bag of fair trade coffee, a small bag of organic sugar, and a fun mug purchased at a thrift store.
- Reusable produce bags – Chances are the slow foodie in your life already has reusable grocery bags, but what about reusable produce bags. These mesh bags eliminate the need to use a plastic produce bag when buying produce in bulk.
- Kitchen counter compost bucket – If your slow foodie always has a bowl of kitchen scraps on the counter top, help her keep them in style with a bucket that hides the potato peels in winter and keeps the fruit flies away from the melon rinds in summer.
- CSA membership – If you’ve got the money to spend, this would make any slow food advocate happy. A membership to a Community Supported Agriculture program will give that special someone on your gift list months and months of farm fresh gifts.
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Great ideas.
Honey is a perfect Christmas gift idea or you can also check out the most popular christmas gift ideas today as voted by the user community on itsThoughtful.com. Its cool to see what other users find interesting.
I don't mean to sound like Mr Sassy-pants, running around amending a list that somebody else put some hard work into, but I do have a couple of harmless comments.
I met Carlo Petrini in 1999, when I lived in Vermont. He didn't speak a lick of English, but he didn't have to--his passion for Slow Food put a lot of clarity on what he had to say. For a while there, I felt like I understood Italian. He inspired in me a great respect for Slow Food.
That being said, I'm a keen.... More
Enjoyed reading your holiday gift ideas. Here's another suggestion, in addition to locally produced honey, there are fabulous local jams and condiments.
Because this was a great year for cucumbers and you can only eat so many pickles yourself over a winter!
www.thecottonbags.com offers great Reusable Holiday Gift Wrap bags that are as festive as they are useful. The cotton bags are perfect for those seeking functional, fun and affordable “green” products.
At times cook books that focus "entirely" on cooking can be rare to get in regional book stores. I like to recommend Onewayshopping.com to do a quick price comparison of the book.
What about homemade dry soup mixes? Dried lentils, split peas, barley, rice, dried vegetables and a recipe letting the receiver know what else needs to be added and how to prepare.
Thanks for this great list and for giving Slow Food USA a shout out! We'd love to re-post on our blog, with your permission.
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It's not as hard as it sounds, and if you make it with local cream and gift it in a mason jar, they'll love it. I like to add herbes de Provence to mine: http://slowchristmas.org/2009/11/06/who-doesnt-like-butter/
