Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Holiday gifts: Cheese and coffee samplers

Posted by Jonathan Bender on Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:45 AM

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​Here in Fat City, we hope to help reduce your annual stress of picking out gifts. To get started, here are a coffee sampler from Parisi coffee and a cheese sampler from Parisi's parent company, Paris Brothers.

Parisi recently launched the line of coffee sampler sets, which are available online and at Trapp and Company (4110 Main). The single-origin roast samples are ground for French Press brewing. You get two 2-ounce bags of Guatemalan HueHuetenango, Keny Kirinyaga and Brazil Yellow Bourbon -- a collection of dark and medium roasts.

The Parisi Espresso set, meanwhile, lends itself to cappuccinos or lattes with sampler bags of espresso parisi, espresso roma and espresso siciliano. The final option is the Parisi Black Label set, which includes pre-ground, 2-ounce bags of KenGua, Sumatra Mandheling and Cafetin de San Martin Costa Rican. Each coffee set is $15.

The Boulevard Cheese Course Sampler is also a unique gift. It's a selection of four cheeses designed to go with Boulevard Brewery's unfiltered Wheat beer: 4- to 6-ounce blocks of Wisconsin cave-aged cheddar, Italian Piave Vecchio, English Derby with sage and Wisconsin Raspberry Bellavitano. The sets are available at Hen House grocery stores and retail for $15.99.

Like Parisi CEO Joe Paris says, "Everyone has their own flavor personality in both cheese and coffee, so a sampler set gives the customer the freedom to test their own tastes and establish their favorites." 

In other Parisi news: The company's coffee will once again be

carried by Costco, with a 2-pound

pack of organic whole bean Bolivian available at the wholesaler's Independence location. Those who belong to Sam's

Club will be glad to know that area stores stock organic Bolivian

coffee and the Sunrise Sensation blend; all five stores have carried

the two products since November.

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