COCKTAIL
PARTY FOODS
COMPILED BY NICOLE POTENZA DENIS
buyers' picks
Sweet and savory flavors are all the rage for
holiday parties. Cucumber and tomato relish, black
truffle potato chips, and octopus tapas jazz up
cheese plates while specialty sodas and simple
syrups are in for cocktails.
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CRAFT
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ENZO'S
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TILLEN
FARMS;
FENTIMANS;
GONE
CRACKERS;
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Tori Sickles, Sickles Market,
Little Silver, NJ
• Aunt Viv's Secret Stash Snack Mix
• Fentimans Rose Lemonade
• Fourth Creek Food Co. Cucumber Relish
• La Quercia Speck Americano
• MV's Best Finest Virginia Cocktail Peanuts
• Tillen Farms Pickled Crunchy Carrots
Bob Bacco, Bacco's Wine & Cheese/
Bacco's Fine Foods, Boston, MA
• Barral Black Cured Olives with Provencal Herbs
• Dufour Pastry Kitchens Four Cheeses & Roasted
Garlic Cocktail Puff
• Elixia Sparkling French Limonade
• Enzo's Table Sweet Red Pepper Pesto
• La Brujula Octopus in Paprika Sauce
"An exciting cocktail party
needs big unique flavor
combinations. Oolala Black
Truffle Potato Chips with a
Caesar cocktail, and Sweet
& Spicy Cocktail Stirrers
are perfect and fun!"—
—Marilyn Martinho, Meinhardt Fine
Foods, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Marilyn Martinho, Meinhardt Fine Foods,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Gone Crackers Canadian
Cheddar & Chive
• Oolala Black Truffle & Olive Oil
Potato Chips
• Sable & Rosenfeld Garlic & Dill
Cocktail Stirrers
• Walter Craft Caesar Mix
Caitlin Nish, Malt and Mold,
New York City
• Aida Currant Turmeric Crisps
• Cocktail Crate Spiced Old
Fashioned Craft Mixer
• La Quercia Speck Americano
• Laurie & Sons Moroccan Spiced
Chocolate Toffee
• Vermont Creamery Chèvre
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