The coming holiday season represents different things to different individuals, but one thing is certain: it is filled with delicious food!
This coming holiday season, take a culinary journey with our carefully curated collection of the perfect gifts for foodies. Some of Canada’s most delightful delicacies include cheese, chocolate, and lovely jewelry.
1. Clay by Ally offers jewelry shaped like shamrock shakes and s’mores that they may wear all year. Ally Reid of Gander, Newfoundland, and Labrador, founded this company to immortalize her favorite seasonal sweets with polymer clay.
These charming and colorful earrings pay homage to both sweet and savory foods, including pumpkins, Easter eggs, s’mores, candy corn, and more.
2. This modernized Canadian staple is as good as ever. At Granville Island’s Northern Bars, this famous dessert has been recreated as a boujee and extremely giftable bonbon.
Nanaimo bars are a true Canadian Christmas tradition that requires a significant amount of effort to prepare. There’s no fuss or mess—just exquisite layers of chocolate ganache, custard buttercream, and chocolate and coconut cookies.
3. This coffee’s ‘bark’ is just as wonderful as its bite. Rescue Coffee uses only organic and fair trade beans and encourages customers to sip a cup and save a pet’.
Their coffee beans benefit animal rescues around Eastern Canada. Try the Wake & Wag beans, a single-origin coffee from Mexico that produces an excellent morning brew.
4. A whole box full of carefully picked delights for the sweet tooth in your life. Black Market Provisions, a popular Winnipeg restaurant, serves everything from gourmet hot chocolate to chocolate-covered walnuts.
If you can’t decide (and who can, really?) get one of their handpicked gift boxes. The Made-in-Manitoba box includes everything from spicy sauce to handcrafted toffee.
5. This flight of honey is a fantastic deal for the extra sweet person in your life! Because what’s a proven way to brighten their holidays? A flight of six distinct types of honey from Leystone Farms in Luskville, Quebec.
They’ll be delighted by the variety of flavors they find, from strong, smokey nectars to delicate, fruity types.
6. This renowned volume, full of community spirit, is ideal for any foodie who already has every cookbook. They must require a copy of Nirjutit Imaani: Edible Animals of the Sea in their lives.
More than 40 people from Nunavut’s twenty-five communities contributed recipes and short stories to this fantastic book.
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7. The Prince Edward Island Preserve Company’s pungent spice combination makes an excellent surprise stocking stuffer. Because once they taste it on your oven fries or scalloped potatoes, they will be hooked.
Potato Pizzazz is a deceptively simple mixture of spices, sea salt, and dry garlic. And if there’s one thing you can rely on Prince Edward Islanders for, it’s potatoes.
8. These unique mustards blend art and spice. Thanks to the gift store at Remai Modern (Saskatoon’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), these delectable treats may now be shipped nationwide.
Need to enhance your charcuterie game? Primal, one of Saskatoon’s most popular eateries, serves delicious homemade sauces.
9. This hot tea originates in a frigid land. Laughing Lichen, a Yellowknife-based firm, sells exceptional teas made from local natural ingredients such as spruce tips, wild nettle, raspberry leaf, and more. They supplement their offerings with dried mushrooms, berries, salts, and spices.
What’s the latest on the Northwest Territories’ gourmet scene? Simply ask the team at Laughing Lichen.
10. These celebrity-approved jams and jellies will undoubtedly appeal to your culinary pals. Galloping Cows Fine Foods may have originated on a Cape Breton farm, but its jewel-like jellies and jams are at home at the Oscars, Golden Globes, and TIFF giving presentations.
The brandy cranberry marmalade, Gravenstein apple butter, and ginger-peach drink concentrate are all quite good.
11. This yearly gift will make them smile and shout, “Cheese!” Balderson Village Cheese Store offers a large monthly box filled with creamy cheese from both their dairy and other quality producers.
What could be better than a basket of cheese? How about one that appears every month, like magic?
12. These beautiful wooden boards and spoons will enhance any kitchen. Bang Nguyen’s company, Bang ‘N Design, sells beautiful, handcrafted cutting boards, serving boards, wooden spoons, spatulas, and much more.
Those who visit Edmonton’s historic Old Strathcona Market know to keep an eye out for what’s new from this local manufacturer.
13. This delicious syrup will make you forget about maple (even if you are Canadian!). Is maple syrup a gift? So, last year. Savvy foodies in and around Dawson City understand the importance of birch syrup, particularly Uncle Berwyn’s Birch Syrup.
The company offers light, medium, and dark syrups, as well as a birch and maple combination for those who can’t get enough of the old favorite.
We want to hear from you! What gourmet favorite is making its way into your shopping basket this Christmas?
