20 of the Best Chocolate Advent Calendar Gifts on Instagram
Advent may not be something everyone celebrates, but everyone can enjoy a tasty chocolate advent calendar. Not only do they keep track of the month of December fairly accurately, they also contain fantastically delicious chocolate treats, and a way to bond with family and friends. Below are some of the most exciting and creative that we’ve found on Instagram, and which (if they’re still in stock) make great gifts.
TasteTV’s TASTEABLE Television Series releases Season 7 Episode 702 Intro
TasteTV’s TASTEABLE television series, Episode Intro, Season 7 Ep 702, is about the pollinators like bees and butterflies that bring us our great foods, and especially honey and wine.
Features Bonterra Vineyards, San Diego Zoo, Seka Hills Honey, the Clift Hotel, Kiss the Flower Honey, Beekind Honey, and True Gold Honey.
This food, wine and travel television series takes viewers on a lifestyle tour of California and beyond. TASTEABLE can be watched on these PBS-affiliate television stations in Northern California, reaching over 2.5 million households from the San Francisco Bay Area to Wine Country.
TasteTV’s TASTEABLE Journal Volume 3 Debuts with Commerce, Culture, Concepts and Cuisine
TasteTV’s TASTEABLE JOURNAL, VOL. 3 is here!
This stylish publication provides a curated collection of insightful content on Culture, Concepts, Commerce and Cuisine. This issue features a photography exhibition of recent PHOTO AWARDS Finalists, as well as one on one interviews with personalities such as Chris Knight (CEO, Gusto TV), Rocco Gaglioti (Founder, FNL Network), Podcaster Yorm Achuaku, Ian and Ana of The Other Side Vlog, Michelle Harris (Alive & Well TV), Darley Newman (Equitrekking and Travels with Darley), Dandy Wellington, Diane Kochilas (My Greek Table), Lisa-Renee Ramirez (Recipe.TV), and up and coming musicians Jon Mullane, Mavenne, Harrison Tinsley, the Christopher Brothers and Nathan Witte, plus chefs, restaurateurs, artists, perfumers, and wines.
TASTEABLE is a bi-annual and annual journal that presents a curated collection of insightful content on Culture, Cuisine, Commerce, and Concepts as reported by TasteTV and TCB-Cafe Publishing and Media. Includes celebrity and leadership interviews, delicious recipes, exciting tech, cutting edge fashion, well-known tastemakers, successful entrepreneurs, tasty wine picks and the year’s best chocolate and other culinary finds.
Available everywhere on Amazon.
Looking for Natural Honey? Try these 3 Family-Owned Brands from California
Most honey is good for you, but the kind that comes from small family-owned producers is often the healthiest, and the tastiest. California is world renowned as being an excellent source of artisan honey. It is also one of the largest honey producing states, right Behind North Dakota and often ahead of Montana, South Dakota and Texas. Each year California produces almost 14,000 Pounds of Honey. In fact, for this reason as well as sustainability, all bees are considered valuable that in California even wild native bumble bees may become protected under the California’s Endangered Species Act.
We’ve tried many honey producers from the Golden State, and here are three family-owned brands you should try right now:
3 FAMILY-OWNED CALIFORNIA HONEYS
TRUE GOLD HONEY
True Gold is owned by mother-son duo Sarah and Tyler Sample, both of whom are 3rd and 4th generation beekeepers. They’ve grown up in the apiary business, and know their way around the hives with skills and experience. Their bee farm is called the Sample Family Apiaries, with their separate honey business called True Gold.
ORANGE BLOSSOMEZ HONEY & WILDFLOWER HONEY
The True Gold Orange Blossom honey is a golden color with a citrus element of course, plus some zest. The Samples say that it can only be harvested where the weather is mild enough for orange trees to survive. Fortunately, the trees for their orange blossom honey basically come from around their own homes.
True Gold is well recognized for excellence, and has won Good Food Awards, Cal Expo Awards, and others.
KISS THE FLOWER HONEY
Kiss the Flower Honey Company was founded in 2010, and focuses on best practices for bees, people, and the planet. They use only natural methods, and have several hives in Sonoma County, including a Santa Rosa property, as well as in the West County. The flowers used in the honey include eucalyptus, Himalayan Blackberry, apples, and acacias. Kiss the Flower produces only about 3,000 pounds of honey per year.
WILDLFLOWER HONEY
The Kiss the Flower Wildflower is classic honey. Their wildflower honey comes from hives on Mount Taylor in Santa Rosa.
STARTHISTLE HONEY
The Kiss the Flower Starthistle honey is a light gold color, with a mild and flowery flavor profile, as well as a bit of anise and cinnamon.
https://kisstheflowerhoney.com
SEKA HILLS HONEY
Seka Hills has a line of tribal products that honor Northern California’s Capay Valley. The Native Tribe is known as the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
meaning ‘Home by the Spring Water.’ In the native Patwin language, ‘Séka’ means ‘blue.’
The Tribe’s product decisions are based on good environmental stewardship, with over 22,000 total acres in production in Yolo County
WILDFLOWER HONEY
The Seka Hills Wildflower Honey gets its taste and dark amber color from variety of wildflowers, such as redbud, rose clover and ceanothus, which are found on over 9,000 acres of tribal land. They produce the artisan honey in partnership with beekeeper John Foster
