{"id":2555,"date":"2016-12-16T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2016-12-16T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T18:22:54","slug":"last-minute-foodie-holiday-gifts-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"Last minute foodie holiday gifts in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Haven\u2019t finished your holiday shopping and have some foodies on your list? Want to shop local? There are lots of choices in the Santa Cruz area including some discounts; here are some highlights including a gift fair tomorrow that has plenty of options–whether you want to buy something food\/drink-related or something else that\u2019s made locally.<\/p>\n

First, the gift fair:
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2nd<\/sup> Annual Holiday Artisan Food & Gift Market — Saturday 12\/17 at Food Lounge<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went to this fabulous event last year and bought gift items for several friends\/family members, not to mention a few things for myself! The market will feature locally made packaged foods including jams, olive oil and hot sauce that are currently available in the Food Lounge Pantry, which opened in September. The holiday market will also offer beautiful jewelry, textiles, glass art, print art and kitchen antiques. Additionally, a few small-batch food producers will offer tamales, empanadas, meat pies and other items that would work well for holiday entertaining or for a delicious dinner with your family. Plus they will sell ready to eat food that customers can enjoy while shopping like empanadas (from La Sofrita Puerto Rican pop-up), tamales (Yoli\u2019s Adobo) and savory pies (Artisan Hand Pies).<\/p>\n

\u201cWe offer this market as close to the holidays as possible so that all of our vendors\u2019 food-based products are fresh for gift-giving and entertaining,\u201d said Andrea Conklin Mollenauer, one of the three partners in the Food Lounge, an incubator kitchen and event venue that will celebrate its second birthday in January. \u201cWe are excited to offer market space to 25 local vendors who don\u2019t have their own brick-and- mortar places to sell products.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vendors with food gifts will include Friend in Cheeses Jam Co., Notso Hot Sauce, My Mom\u2019s Mole, Ashby Confections, and Farmer Freed Salts. Non-food vendors will include True Blue Indigo (textiles), Love Light Vintage Candles, Verdant California (body products) and\u00a0 Fereshteh Fatemi (artisan jewelry and greeting cards \u2013 disclaimer, this is the author\u2019s mother<\/em>).<\/p>\n

In addition to the holiday market, the Food Lounge Pantry is open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to<\/p>\n

7 p.m. as a hub for local artisan food products \u2013 a perfect stop for holiday shopping, including next week when you realize which folks you forgot to buy for!<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: Food Lounge, 1001 Center St. Santa Cruz <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Date\/Time<\/strong>: Sat Dec. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Next, some gift card discount highlights<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Until Christmas, Hula\u2019s Santa<\/strong> Cruz<\/strong><\/a> (221 Cathcart St.) is offering a special: Purchase a $50 gift certificate for someone else and get a free $10 certificate for yourself; purchase $100 and get a free $20 gift card to treat yourself.<\/p>\n

Mission Hill Creamery<\/strong><\/a> (1101 Pacific Ave.) has these discounts until Christmas: Buy a $25 gift card for $20 OR buy four $10 gift cards and receive the fifth free OR re-Charge your existing gift card with at least $20 and get 20% off your gift card purchase.<\/p>\n

Through Dec. 24, Johnny\u2019s Harborside<\/strong><\/a> (493 Lake) is offering a bonus: Purchase a $50 gift certificate for someone else and get $10 free; spend $100 and get $20 free, etc.<\/p>\n

Other gift ideas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last but not least, other foodie gift options include certificates from local restaurants. The Glass Jar announced they\u2019re offering a card that\u2019s good at any of their three restaurants\u2014that\u2019s Assembly, The Picnic Basket <\/strong>AND The Penny Ice Creamery<\/strong>. If you know people who are fans of Soif<\/strong> and\/or La Posta<\/strong>, you can also purchase gift cards that are good at both. And Crow\u2019s Nest <\/strong>gift cards are redeemable at the restaurant or its neighboring Crow\u2019s Nest Beach Market.<\/p>\n

Want to send a sweet Santa Cruz-themed food gift to someone? Pacific Cookie Company<\/a><\/strong> has lots of options. These include Top Tier Cookies & Chocolate Box ($49.95), with 36 two-ounce cookies and 32 white and milk chocolate flower medallions made by local chocolatier Mackenzies Chocolate; Sweet Elegance Cookie Gift Box ($37.95) with 24 two-oz. cookies, Season\u2019s Eatings Christmas Tin ($26.95) with 36 one-oz. cookies, and Classic Cookies and Milk ($24.95) with a dozen two-ounce cookies and two 8-oz cartons of organic milk (it\u2019s shelf-stable low-fat Horizon milk which doesn\u2019t require refrigeration). Also, Los Gatos-based Manresa Bread<\/strong> now ships its scrumptious artisan bread anywhere in the continental U.S.; see my November article<\/a> and\/or the Manresa site<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

Follow me on:<\/p>\n

Twitter @santacruzfoodie<\/a><\/p>\n

Instagram @tarafatemiwalker<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook @santacruzfoodieexaminer<\/a><\/p>\n

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