Easter Gift Baskets: Perfect Food Gifts For The Whole Family

Easter gift baskets loaded with gourmet food make perfect gifts for a whole family. The ultimate gourmet food gift basket arrives packed with an Easter ham, smoked turkey breast, smoked pork chops, applewood smoked bacon, Wisconsin cheeses, mustards, and sauces and will feed family and guests for the whole Easter weekend.







Or give the gift of an Easter brunch. Easter breakfast gift baskets come in many sizes. The festive Easter Treats Gift Basket is filled with pancake mixes, pure Wisconsin maple syrup, maple sugar candy, and gourmet coffee.



Children love unwrapping Easter baskets brimming with Easter candies and chocolate bunnies. Try something new and delight children with a gift of Easter-decorated caramel apples hand-dipped in pastel-colored, candied-chocolates or sprinkles. The He Has Risen Sugar Cookie Tin will help children keep the religious significance of Easter in mind as they enjoy their Easter sweets.



Food gifts are always appreciated and always enjoyed. And sending food to loved ones has never been easier with easy on-line ordering and fast delivery. Select your favorite Easter gift basket and give it today.

How To Test Your Valentine's Love With Gourmet Food Gifts

Why give gourmet food to your valentine? - because if your valentine is really your valentine then he or she will share that gift of gourmet food with you. If any doubt about your valentine's depth of love haunts your mind, take this depth test now. Offer him or her the highest quality chocolates and truffles, handmade by gourmet chocolatiers. If upon opening, the chocolates are shared with you, then you've received a strong sign that your valentine's love is true. Don't trust your heart's future to drugstore chocolates; lovers have been known to share them with pet hamsters. Only hand-fashioned chocolates give true tests of love.
Some people were not born loving chocolate, and on them this truffle test can give a false positive. For these valentines, seek out other gourmet foods not easily shared such as sweet, Danish kringle. Tempt your valentine with cherry or pecan kringle; see how large a slice you are served.
If your valentine prefers meat over sweet, then give a gift of special smokehouse meats or bacon-wrapped filets. These gifts are packed with plenty of food to share, so you'll enjoy dining on them too. But the test lays in whether or not your feasting valentine simultaneously shares his or her attention with you. Does your valentine pause between bites to gaze into your eyes? Or are both eyes only on the meat?
What to do if your valentine fails the tests? Better to find out now and dump that false valentine. You'll be glad that you did because then when your order of gourmet food next arrives, you won't have to share!

Wisconsin Gourmet Foods Distract Ground Hogs From Seeing Their Shadows

In test trials at Badgerland State U. Wisconsin gourmet foods successfully distracted Wisconsin ground hogs from reacting to their shadows. When researchers placed a variety of Wisconsin nuts and dried fruits outside the rodents' burrows and poked the critters awake, the sleepy-eyed ground hogs chose to eat the nuts and fruits even in bright sunshine. 82% of the ground hogs tested remained above ground when gourmet Wisconsin food was present but fled back underground if the food was absent or subsequently removed. Their rapid retreats suggest that rodents not engaged in eating experienced sudden alarm as they noticed their shadows. Dittmar Schmidt, lead scientist on the ground-hog research team, interpreted the findings this way, "A clear result of our study is that the presence of Wisconsin gourmet food in a ground hog's immediate vicinity induces eating behavior. In the ground hog brain, adverse reaction to winter sunshine is suppressed by the drive to eat nutritious food."
In a subsequent study, Schmidt's team tested ground hog-reaction differences between Wisconsin gourmet food purchased at Wisconsinmade.com and ordinary, off-the-grocery-store shelf food from Iowa. In these trials, ground hogs were 68% more likely to flee sunshine and bolt back underground when the off-the-shelf-food was present compared to when the Wisconsinmade gourmet food was present. These reaction differences were statistically highly significant, prompting scientists to conclude that Wisconsinmade gourmet food is highly preferred over mass-produced foods.
In cooperation with researchers from Badgerland State U.'s Psychology department, the team conducted identical trials but substituted Wisconsin undergraduates for the ground hogs. Lydia Lubkinson, who led the psychology team, reported, "I was amazed. Never have we recorded a 100% test result. Regardless of cloudy or sunny conditions, ALL of the undergraduates remained outside to consume the Wisconsin gourmet food. Our results using mass-produced food were mixed. In those trials less than 35% of the students remained outside in the Wisconsin cold to eat food." The researchers subsequently tested for a state-of-origin effect and found no differences between Wisconsin undergraduates and those from Iowa and Illinois in their tendency to stay outdoors and eat Wisconsinmade gourmet food. A test of Michigan undergraduates is planned for the upcoming weeks.
Watchdog groups have reacted to the studies' findings with concern. They fear that on Tuesday, February 2, Wisconsin town of Sun Prairie officials, eager to please their winter-weary constituents, will distract Jimmy the Ground Hog with Wisconsinmade.com dried fruits and nuts, thus preventing Jimmy from noticing his shadow. Wisconsinmade.com president, Linda Remeschatis, denied that Sun Prairie officials have contacted her regarding supplying Wisconsinmade gourmet food for Tuesday's event. Remeschatis added that, "Wisconsinmade's mission is to deliver Wisconsin's finest gourmet foods to homes and businesses throughout the United States. If towns wish to influence their ground hogs by tempting them with our gourmet foods, we cannot change that, but we do hope that those responsible will also share these delicious foods with the many ground-hog day spectators."

Gourmet Wisconsin Food And Art To Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Wisconsinmade.com is honoring breast cancer patients, survivors, and their families this October by donating 10% of its sales to the Breast Cancer Coalition, and to the Breast Cancer Recovery Organization. Wisconsinmade.com is a gourmet food and fine-gift store which sells products made by Wisconsin artisans and small businesses. It was founded ten years ago by Linda Remeschatis following her own victory over breast cancer. For the past eight years, Linda has given her thanks to the many people who helped her back to health by making these generous donations to breast cancer organizations.
But Linda has done more than just give money. She's asked Wisconsin artisans to help in raising breast cancer awareness. She encourages artisans to create food and gifts that symbolize the breast cancer fight. And artisans have generously responded. This month Wisconsinmade.com features gourmet foods such as pink ribbon, hand-decorated sugar cookies, chocolate turtle candies with pink ribbons of icing, and a party-sized, cherry kringle in the shape of a large pink ribbon. Wisconsin jewelery-makers and ceramics artists responded by creating special breast cancer awareness pendant necklaces and commemorative stepping stones for the garden .
Since Wisconsinmade.com's inception, Linda has sought to showcase books by Wisconsin authors who write about cancer and help readers meet its many challenges. Eating can be a major difficulty for cancer patients, so for people who love cooking and good food made easy, Wisconsinmade.com offers a wonderful cookbook called The Cancer Survival Cookbook. It was written by Dr. Christina Marino, MD and nutritionist, Donna L. Weihofen, RD of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's oncology and radiotherapy clinics. The book has dozens of recipes and thoughtful, nutritional advice for cancer sufferers. More personal accounts of living with cancer are found in Judith Strasser's book, Facing Fear: Cancer and politics, hope and courage. The book is a psychological aid to all of us who must distinguish real fear from debilitating anxiety in order to recover from illness or trauma. A third inspiring book is called During...A Couple's Intimate Experience With Breast Cancer Treatment co-written by Jody Glynn Patrick and Kevin Patrick about how love grows and sustains. They write honestly about daily coping when the challenges of work, home, and family don't stop just because you've got cancer. These books are practical and hopeful guides for people traveling the difficult path of serious illness.
Breast cancer is such a pervasive illness that we all know women who crrently suffer from it, recovered from it, or tragically lost the battle. By all of us coming together to support families living with cancer, we can ease the pain as we race for the cure. Thank you for reading this post, and we hope you will do what you can to help.