Why should those with significant others only be the recipients of dinners out for birthdays and other celebration-worthy events? Just because your single friends choose to be bachelors and bachelorettes doesn’t mean that they prefer takeout Chinese food. Offer a selection of foods and flavors from the world over and provide your single mates with a choice between a quiet night at home making sundaes, hosting an intimate to-do with a close friend or even having a small tasting party with the gang.
Gourmet Gifts
One company that specializes solely in gourmet food gifts is iGourmet. You have your choice of fruits and vegetables, chocolates, desserts, meats, cheeses and prepared meals. Essentially, something for everyone’s tastes--and perfect for an impromptu get together. The Meats and Seafood basket includes escargot, pates, Italian prosciutto and Germany’s Westphalian ham. iGourmet boasts an offering of the most comprehensive meat and seafoods available online. They have a pantry gift box with over 2,000 specialty items to choose from like Spanish Saffron and West Indian nutmeg. Ice Cream Toppings with Cooler is another option for ice cream-craving singles. The Picnic Ascot rainbow plaid tote (great to use later for pick-up ballgames in the park) comes stuffed with dulce de leche (sweet milk and vanilla), Scharffen Berger roasted cacao nibs, Berkshire Bark Belgian chocolate, Spanish chocolate covered almonds and carmelized walnuts. Just add ice cream.
Food Mall
The Gourmet Food Mall was featured in Forbes "Best of the Web" list and in "Oprah" magazine. They offer categories like appetizers, baked goods and breakfast solutions, in addition to regional selections, spicy foods and edibles for diabetics. Their Lobsters To Go gift is date-ready with four 1.25 pound Woodman's of Essex hard shell lobsters. The gift package also contains cooking instructions, claw crackers, seafood forks, wet towels and bibs. For utmost quality and freshness, this gift is delivered overnight. For your gluten-free friends, send Brazilian cheese bread (pao de queijo) Chebe Bread. Their products are gluten, wheat and yeast free. Their line is comprised of rolls, pizza dough, breadsticks and more.
Create A Dinner
Create A Dinner gift package by the Gourmet Station is like taking your friend out to dinner without the fuss of getting a reservation on a day you're both available. Assemble a Parisian three-course dinner for two, which includes a custom-designed menu with appetizers, entrees, and dessert. Choose from quiche Lorraine and French style mushroom tarts or wild mushroom beggar's purse and Portobello puffs to start. Entrée selections include chicken cordon bleu and tortellini with shrimp and lobster sauce. And for dessert, there are raspberry cordial cheesecake or amaretto cookies.
Forbes.com *"Best of the Web: Gourmet Food" (accessed on January 27, 2010)
Shannon Marks - Shannon Marks is a writer living in Austin, Texas. She spent most of the 90s and 2000's living in New York City where she was an editor at ...
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