Monthly Archives: August 2009

Kansas City Gift Baskets: Give the Best of Kansas City

By: Nelson Mann
A Kansas City gift basket would not be complete without Sylva’s chips and three bean salsa.  Mano’s Food & Wine Gifts has included the Sylva’s products in its gourmet gift baskets for years and as the popularity of Sylva’s has continued to grow, so has that of Mano’s.  Long operating as the holiday [...]

Breakfast Gift Baskets: Manos and Boba Tea and Bakery

Good news!  Breakfast gift baskets from Mano’s Food & Wine Gifts has teamed up with Boba Tea and Bakery, a local Kansas City company, to provide the freshest and most yummy baked goods available.  The recipes used by Boba Tea originated with their grandma Opal Rhodes in 1916 and have been passed down through the [...]

Nut Gift Baskets: What Would Jesus Eat?

by: Nelson Mann
I just recently learned about the “Jesus Diet,” which was featured in Colbert’s book “What would Jesus Eat?”  The premise of the book was during that era travelers throughout the Mediterranean Sea relied in their diet very heavily on the wide variety of nuts that were naturally grown throughout the area.  If [...]

Dog Gift Baskets: Doggie Dream Box

By: Nelson Mann
Sharon and I visited the Fancy Food Show in San Diego last year, where products from around the world for gourmet food gift baskets were displayed.  We both noticed that there were long lines in front of all of the booths that featured animal health products.  We were smart enough to return to [...]

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