Culinary Culture

Time:Space Sherry Cask

The third release in its Time:Space collection, The Macallan’s Time:Space Sherry Cask single malt whisky has matured for 20 years. It’s also the first expression aged in The Macallan’s own sherry casks, originating from Spain and purchased as part of the prestige brand’s 200-year anniversary in 2024. The unique circular bottle references both the whisky’s patient role in the continuous cycle of time and the round shape of the Valdespino sherry wine’s palomino grapes. As for the packaging, the design team was inspired by the color of the illuminated grapes in the Andalusian sun to create a custom color—by mixing paints on paper and metal to achieve a hue that hits harder than any Pantone swatch could—that captures the emotion of that exact, magical moment. 

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Nordic Seed Crisps

Jöey Nordic Seed Crisps are new on the scene and deliver a tasty crunch in many flavors, including our favorite, Nori + Tamari. These gluten free crackers are great to snack on out of the package, but go well with cheese, dips, anything you’d normally put on one. Watermelon seeds are the one ingredient you may be less familiar with, but they are among the most water-efficient and nutrient rich seeds, packing lots of magnesium, zinc, potassium, protein and iron. Pumpkin, sesame, flax, hemp, chia and sunflower round out the recipe along with brown rice flour. Various three packs and boxes are also available.

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Plastic Free Programmable Coffee Brewer

Simply Good Coffee set out on a mission to create a coffee maker with no plastic components. It’s not that it’s hard, but it does take a lot more time and it costs more to execute—which is why even great coffee brewers have some if not many plastic parts. We advocate for as clean a kitchen as possible, glass storage containers, silicone accessories, non-chemically coated cookware, and natural cleaning products. Simply Good’s brewer looks and functions like most brewers, they’ve just gone through the time and expense to do things the right way. What you get is one less place where hot things you consume interact with plastic, and a little more piece of mind about clean living. You also gets a machine that is more robust and less likely to need replacement parts.

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Yuzu Ginger Non-Ale Beer

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Mushroom Chips (six pack)

Popadelics Mushroom chips are simply dried shiitake mushrooms and seasonings—nothing more. These healthy vegan snacks come in three flavors, Rad Rosemary + Salt, Twisted Thai Chili and Trippin’ Truffle Parm. Available in single varieties or the variety pack with two packs of each flavor.

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Charcuterie Trail Mix

Raisins, take no offense, but we’re excited about Beest Snacks’ Charcuterie trail mix featuring roasted almonds, pork jerky chips and parmesan crisps with some seasoning and zero added sugar. A 4oz bag delivers an impressive 52g of protein in 660 calories. Beef jerky chips, pork jerky chips, and assorted sets provide lower cost and more options.

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Demi Automatic Espresso Machine

Whenever we book a vacation rental, the topic of conversation inevitably leads to “what’s the coffee situation?” Nine times out of 10, the house ends up having a sub-par pod device that simply doesn’t meet our standards. On a recent road trip to Cape Cod, we decided to bring the Terra Kaffe Demi—a compact, easy-to-use coffee maker that we’ve been loving at home—and it honestly improved our whole holiday experience. With a touch of a button it brews espresso, lungo, Americano, drip coffee and even hot water for the tea drinkers. To take things to the next level, try adding the Aero to your setup for hot frothed milk, cold foam and perfectly whisked matcha.

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Thick Honey

At a recent visit to the Fancy Food Show, a trade show for gourmet foods, we met longtime CH reader Noah Phillips. We always love when that happens, even more so when they are up to something interesting. Noah loves honey, but doesn’t love having to manage it in containers where it often solidifies, or is thinned out to dispense more easily which often makes a mess. As any passionate entrepreneur does they solve the problem by making their own, and Honey Department was born (it also helps that his dad is a beekeeper). The single source honey comes from bees that pollinate Mexican wildflower and mesquite blossoms. He calls it “thick honey” and it’s packaged in an aluminum tube. Thick, because it is naturally thickened into a creamy paste, a perfect consistency for putting on your food more precisely, smoothly and without waste. Need more? Just squeeze the tube; when you’ve finished it, recycle it. We’ve tried it on food, in recipes, in beverages, and we’ve even been seen carrying the small tube around to share with people (these are currently an added bonus when you buy a three pack, but will soon be sold separately). Until then, you can buy a single 6 oz tube for $16, or buy in larger packs at a lower price.

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Cold Brew Coffee + Tea Brewer

“Cold brew, but make it fast” is now just minutes away with Brezi Cold—a purpose-built cold brew brewer for coffee and tea. We’ve been testing it for several weeks and are really happy with the results. As you know cold brew is one of the gentlest brewing methods, preserving all of the taste with with substantially less acid. It starts with a hot water bloom to get the coffee primed, then moves to cold brewing, all based on the parameters you’ve set. A fresh cold brew takes around 10 minutes (which varies based on brew volume) and a Kyoto-style slow drip method (our favorite) is also available (which takes around an hour, also based on brew volume). Founded by passionate runners who wanted to enjoy post-run cold brew, they developed their own system when alternatives were lacking. The machine is thoughtfully engineered, with a simple control dial on top of the machine that rotates through brewing options. The grounds cup attaches magnetically. It’s simple to use, and delivers a satisfying cold brew experience.

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Smoke & Brûlée Chocolate Bar

A perfectly balanced chocolate bar with 66% Dominican chocolate, cold smoked nibs, brûléed sugar bits and black lava salt hits all the right spots in sophisticated treat from this bean-to-bar chocolatier from Bentonville, Arkansas. Inspired by the maker’s memory of eating bananas foster and creme brûlée on a summer road trip through New Orleans, it’s a great introduction to the brand and their unique confections.

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Everyday Sake Guide

Everyday Sake: The Go-To Guide for Choosing, Pairing + Serving by Yoko Kumano and Kayoko Akabori, is the latest effort by the duo who’ve run Oakland’s Umami Mart since 2012. The shop features a sake bar, Japanese spirits, pantry items and housewares. The book celebrates their passion for sake and its flexibility as a beverage for much more than Japanese food. It covers helpful things like understanding the various types of sake, what they are best paired with, how to read sake labels, and much more. You can add some sake to your order, too…

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Opinel No. 8 National Parks Guide Series

Opinel is a legendary knifemaker founded in 1890 in the French Alps. Even if you don’t think you “know” Opinel, you probably actually do. Their No. 8 consists of a wood handle carved entirely from a single piece of certified, sustainably harvested beech, a simple, circular metal lockring and a steel blade. Opinels have starred in television series and films like the French Connection II, and now Opinel has commissioned a limited National Parks Guide Series, featuring Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains and the Grand Canyon as envisioned through the eyes of local artists. The knife artwork is unique, a bit whimsical and we love that it comes with an accompanying Wildsam field guide to each park. It’s a fun tribute; plus, a portion of every sale goes to Leave No Trace.

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Summerdown Peppermint Dark Chocolate Crisp Bar (2 Bars)

Summerdown started growing Black Mitcham peppermint, an heirloom varietal, around thirty years ago. The farmers found and painstakingly brought cuttings back to England, and with lots of time and care the finicky plant settled in; today it’s grown on 100 acres. Once harvested it’s distilled and barrel-aged, and powers many products that the farm produces. They make several chocolates but the bar is the easiest to travel with, and as we’re always on the go it’s what you’ll often find in our everyday carry. Made from 70% Colombian chocolate, it has a light dusting of sugar crystals to give it a little crunch. Each bar is 100g / 3.5oz, price is for a two pack.

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AirSpreader in Beech

Think about all of the knives you’ve used when you set out snacks—most often they aren’t designed for the task at hand; they fall over, they drip and they don’t do a great job. Behold the AirSpreader from Bosign, a multiple award winning design for its simplicity and effectiveness. The ergonomic base rests on the surface, while the spreading half is elevated and ready to spread whatever you’re serving. We love the simplicity and price point for the solid beech version, but several other materials are available as is a larger AirSpreader.

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Gursha

Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond: A Cookbook by Harlem’s acclaimed chef Beejhay Barhany, celebrates her unique heritage. Through more than 100 recipes, the book brings her Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) heritage to life through food, accented by her and her family’s time in Ethiopia, Sudan, Israel and Harlem. The book’s title speaks to “the act of feeding one another,” which is both literal with its recipes but also metaphorically apt given how she shares stories of family, culture, place, tradition, home and diaspora. This cookbook shares the culinary traditions of a relatively small and lesser known Jewish community in an accessible way that’s easy to cook at home.

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Slice T-Shirt

We love well-made t-shirts and we love pizza even more, so it’s not surprising that we really love Leret’s crew neck Slice T-Shirt. It’s 100% lightweight cotton, made in Portugal, and features an embroidered slice on the left chest. Available in black, and can be further customized (for an additional fee) with your initials in the color and placement of your choice.

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Chocolate Peanut Crunch Caramels

Bee Grateful Farm hand makes their tasty honey-sweetened caramels in Colorado. The Chocolate Peanut Crunch Caramels are our favorite (though the others are also worth trying out too). Perfectly sized with just the right blend of salty, sweet, crunchy and creamy, and well-balanced between the peanuts, honey-sweetened caramel, cocoa and salt hits every mark. We usually have notes. But we don’t have any here. Price is for one package with ten caramels.

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TokyoTreat Snack Box

A monthly taste of Japan, the TokyoTreat Snack Box features a different selection of food and beverage items with each edition, including rare / Japanese exclusive KitKat bars, snacks, baked goods, noodles, candy, chips, drinks and more. Available by month, or for a reduced rate, quarterly, semi-annually or annually.

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The RoadRunner Travel Coffee Brewer

From Weber Workshops, one of our favorite coffee gear makers, The RoadRunner is a new travel- and outdoor-friendly version of their The BIRD no bypass, filter and vacuum brewing machine, created to deliver a range of coffee expressions; it’s not a French press as one may easily assume. Led by Doug Weber, a former Apple designer and coffee nerd, the Japanese company’s gear is beautifully designed and exactingly engineered. The RoadRunner shares The BIRD’s DNA, but in a lighter weight and travel-friendly (yet still durable) design, and features the same Pod (a stainless steel mesh filter and custom Abaca paper filter), carafe (holds the ground coffee and water) and the  Gizmo (the crown and claw plunger). The vacuum system is designed to allow full control over your hot or cold preparation of choice (from seconds to hours) and lets you use a much wider range of grind size, providing substantially more options for the brew you desire and enabling you to extract more flavor than in a traditional press. When ready, you simply rotate the wing nut to start filtration. Most importantly, because the brewed coffee is separated from the grounds you avoid both bitterness and over-extraction. The RoadRunner can make up to 350ml per brew.

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Prince Stainless Steel Pizza Cutter

For design and pizza nerds who seek out perfection, San Francisco’s Bernal Cutlery’s Prince stainless steel pizza cutter is an object of beauty as well as performance. Created with their friends at Flour + Water pizzeria, they developed a sleek design engineered to “push through even the thickest of pizzas.” To build it to their specs they worked with Prince, Japan’s well known maker of high quality kitchen tools. One look at the pizza cutter’s profile is all you need to see to appreciate the level of intention and precision.

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Single Origin Farm-Direct Coffee Beans

Wonderstate celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, continuing to roast farm-direct coffees as they always have in Veroqua, Wisconsin, with meaningful relationships with the farmers they work with and great respect for the beans they provide, each roasted in sync with their personality and flavor profile. We’re particularly fond of their single origin coffees, which rotate based on availability. On publishing day the collection includes coffees from Kenya, Honduras, Colombia, Ethiopa and Gautamala. Prices for this collection range from $22 – $30 for a 250g bag, larger bags of 1.5lb and 5lb are also available.

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Philos Coffee Grinder

Mazzer’s Philos is a compact, single-dose flat-burr grinder engineered for people who care as much about precision as they do ritual. Milled from dense metal and tuned for minimal retention, it shifts seamlessly between espresso and filter, delivering clean, expressive extractions with every dose. Its 64mm burrs—available in clarity-forward or body-driven profiles—create a surprisingly versatile range, while the convertible stepped/stepless dial keeps adjustments controlled and repeatable. Quiet, weighty and built with Mazzer’s characteristic durability, the Philos brings professional-grade performance into a footprint that feels at home on any design-minded countertop.

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La Collection Featuring Blanc de Noirs Assemblage No. 4

Armand de Brignac Champagne is known for its quality, taste, limited production and not-so-subtle packaging. Together in one very limited set, the La Collection Featuring Blanc de Noirs Assemblage No.4 includes six of the brand’s accomplished releases in 750ml bottles—Gold Brut, Brut Green, Rosé, Demi-Sec, Blanc de Blancs and Blanc de Noirs Assemblage No. 4, which is a blend of the house’s 2013, 2014 and 2015 vintages. It’s an indulgent gift for Champagne lovers, collectors, Armand de Brignac enthusiasts and the ballers on your list (or for yourself).

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Queen T: Anis + Tomato 70% Chocolate Bar

Antidote Chocolate has a bit of a rep for their exotic flavors—look no further than their Queen T: Anis + Tomato bar, made from 70% single estate Ecuadorian cocoa—to support that claim. Far from dramatic, the bar is beautifully balanced, savory and just sweet enough, with nice texture from the crisp anise seeds.

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Futo Bread Bag

From KINTO, one of our favortie Japanese home goods makers, comes the launch of their new Futo fabric brand. This Bread Bag is one of several new kitchen items made with fabric (aprons and towels are also part of the debut collection). Made from 100% linen, it’s the perfect companion for home made (or reheated) bread. The linen absorbs and releases the moisture from warm bread, ensuring that your loaf retains its crispy texture. Available in this and a larger size.

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