Gift Guide: Chow Charity

Foodzie and Chow have teamed up to make your purchase of good food even better: Through the holidays, 5% of the purchase of select products (below) benefits a charity local to the food producer. So you're not only directly supporting great small food companies, you're helping their communities. Now that's "happy eating!"

Los Angeles: Garden Schools

5% of the sale of these products support Garden Schools. The best way to learn about good food is to grow it. This community partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District brings science gardens, kitchen gardens, and teaching kitchens to public schools. http://gardenschoolfoundation.org

Assorted Petits Fours

Assorted Petits Fours

Valerie Confections
Los Angeles, California
$16.00

Valerie Confections petits fours are a modern interpretation of the classic confection. Each petit four has four layers of cake and three layers of decadent filling surrounded with a chocolate glaze.

Butter Cup Collection

Butter Cup Collection

Ococoa Chocolates
Los Angeles, California
$22.00

This chocolate collection features each of our delectable nut butter cups - a sophistiated twist on a childhood favorite. In a beautiful gift box, our butter cups are a perfect gift for all occasions.

Apricot Almond Panforte

Apricot Almond Panforte

Panforte Company
Los Angeles, California
$15.00

We've reinvented the classic Italian cake to showcase California sun dried apricots, almonds, and dates. Made in small batches with love.

This 1 lb. windowed variety tin of our handmade and all-natural butter crunch makes the perfect "every day is a holiday" gift for family, associates, and friends!

Hot Sauce 3-Pack

Hot Sauce 3-Pack

All Spice Cafe
Venice, California
$24.95

This is a set of 3 bottles, one each of Caribbean Spice (Med), Chipotle Garlic (Hot) and Cayenne Habanero (XXX-Hot).

New York: FoodBankNYC

5% of the sale of these products support FoodBankNYC. Food Bank For New York City seeks to end food poverty and increase access to affordable, nutritious food for over 4 million low-income New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs. http://www.foodbanknyc.org/

Sampler Tea Gift Sets

Sampler Tea Gift Sets

Tavalon Tea
Wood-Ridge, New Jersey
$28.00

A selection of fine tea gift sets, sure to delight aspiring tea experts as well as the most discerning tea palates.

Hazelnut Chocolate Whisky Sandwich Cookies

A bittersweet Scotch Whisky-infused Madagascar chocolate filling nestles between two cookies studded with ground hazelnuts and rich chocolate chips.

Pickle Party Pack

Pickle Party Pack

Rick's Picks
New York, New York
$41.95

Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to announce our Pickle Party Pack, chock-full of crowd-pleasing pickles that work well as little bites AND as mixers for chilled vodka.

Bacon Peanut Brittles, 4 Oz Bag 3-Pack

Esquire Magazine's “Best Bar Snack of 2008” brings together 3 great flavors - bacon, peanuts and maple. A perfect small host gift or stocking stuffer.

Amarene Cherries

The classic chocolate-covered cherry confection is reinvented. Wild Amarene cherries from Northern Italy hand-coated in dark chocolate.

San Francisco: La Cocina

5% of the sale of these products support La Cocina. La Cocina cultivates food entrepreneurs - primarily culturally diverse and immigrant women - by providing affordable commercial kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance and access to market opportunities. http://lacocinasf.org

Fresh Chestnuts - 2009 Harvest

Fresh California chestnuts direct from our family farm, to bring gourmet health and wealth to your holiday table this season.

Maple Honey Caramels, 12 Piece Box

Maple Honey Caramels, 12 Piece Box

Sweet Revolution
San Francisco, California
$22.00

My Organic salted caramels are handmade with the best, purest ingredients and packaged in my hand-stamped box, sealed with red sealing wax.

Bacon Potato Chips

Bacon Potato Chips

Who's Your Daddy Bacon Potato Chips
San Francisco, California
$25.00

We start our Bacon Potato Chips with the best quality potatoes and add a proprietary blend of some extra-bacony goodness. A Real Simple "Delicious Stocking Stuffers" Pick.

Comfort Collection

Comfort Collection

479° Popcorn
San Francisco, California
$46.00

This collection offers a gourmet experience that is both indulgent and deeply satisfying.

Specialty Mushroom Basket

Specialty Mushroom Basket

Gourmet Mushrooms Inc.
Sebastopol, California
$27.00

Mycopia®'s organic certified Mushroom Gift Basket is the ideal gift for any gourmet cook, including yourself!

Boston: The Food Project

5% of the sale of these products support The Food Project. With a goal to build a sustainable food system, we work each year with over 140 teens and thousands of volunteers to grow nearly a quarter-million pounds of food outside of Boston. We also strive to develop a new generation of leaders by placing teens in unusually responsible roles, with deeply meaningful work. http://thefoodproject.org

Dark Chocolate Bar Trio

Dark Chocolate Bar Trio

Taza Chocolate
Somerville, Massachusetts
$23.25

Our Taza Dark Chocolate Bar Trio features one bar each of our 60%, 70%, and 80% stone ground dark chocolate bars, packaged in a handsome letter-pressed box.

Salt Blend Collection

Salt Blend Collection

Didi Davis Artisan Food
Ipswich, Massachusetts
$23.00

Our salts are always crafted by hand, using fresh herbs and ingredients of the finest caliber. Sprinkle these finishing salts at the end of cooking to add delicious full flavors to your dishes.

All Natural Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit

All Natural Make Your Own Chewing Gum Kit

Glee Gum
Providence, Rhode Island
$13.00

Make your own chewing gum with chicle, the sap of the Sapodilla tree that grows in the rainforests of Central America. Everything you need is included in this kit and it's easy! You can make your own gum on the...

Peace-Pac: Rugelach & Ma'amoul Cookies

Our hand-rolled Jewish rugelach and hand-made Arabic / Lebanese ma’amoul cookies nestled together in a pastry box.

Classic French Hannahbells Thimble Cheese

Classic French Hannahbells Thimble Cheese

Shy Brothers Farm
Westport Point, Massachusetts
$15.00

Classic French shows off the full flavor profile of our farm’s milk, changing slightly from season to season to reflect the changing grasses on the farm. This cheese is the professional chefs’ favorite.