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Gifts for the Gourmet
11.25.18
The Gourmandise School offers some of the best cooking classes in Los Angeles for beginners to professionals using locally sourced ingredients. It also offers the perfect gift sets for anyone who loves to cook.
Each gift set has a cooking theme and top-notch products inside.
The Cookie Pro - $115
To make their day just a little sweeter, The Cookie Pro gift set includes Gourmandise Pro Series baking essentials, premium sustainable flour, and chocolate, and to guide and inspire, the Tartine cookbook.
- Artisanal Flour from LA Urban Mill Grist & Toll
- Pro Series Quarter 18 Gauge Aluminum Quarter Sheet Pan
- Cordillera Premium Dark Chocolate from Colombia
- Pro Series Hi-Temp Silicone Spatula
- Pro Series Cookie Scooper
- Zassenhaus Kitchen Timer
- “Tartine” Cookbook by Elisabeth Prueitt
The Bread Baker - $105
Rise to the occasion with The Bread Baker gift set that includes the very best tools and ingredients for your favorite baker to make heavenly bread with rustic recipes from Hewn Bakery’s owner and premier baker Ellen King’s new book “Heritage Baking.”
- Flour from LA Urban Mill Grist & Toll
- Heritage Baking - Hewn Book
- Frieling’s Brotform Bread Rising Basket
- Pro Series Bench Scraper
- Digital Scale
- Sourdough Starter
- “Heritage Baking” Cookbook by Ellen King
La Salade Chef - $95
You can't go wrong with La Salade Chef gift set. Everyone can make their own amazing dressing at home with simple quality tools and premium local olive oil from Nuvo. Provencal Chef Pascale Beale’s “Salade” provides recipes that work every time to transform salads into the highlight of any menu.
- Pro Series Mixing Bowl
- Nuvo California Olive Oil
- Nuvo Premium Balsamic Vinegar
- Pro Series Whisk
- Blue Marseille Cotton Kitchen Dish Towels (2)
- Chef Pascale Beale’s “Salade” Cookbook
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Black Friday Specials - Fashion, Beauty and Causes
11.23.18
Black Friday deals are here. If you love specials on fashion and beauty, here are a few to discover.
FASHION
Waisted via Macy’s Shopping for the sport-loving, streetwear enthusiast, look no further than Waisted, (the second most popular streetwear brand at Macy’s behind Juicy Couture). Designed to fit an on-and-off-the court lifestyle, Waisted creates sports-inspired fashion pieces designed to slim and accentuate the waistline! Shop the collection at Macy’s in-store and online at macys.com/shop/featured/waisted
Black Friday and Cyber Monday - 50% off the ticket price of items at the link below from Thursday, Nov. 22 through Monday, Nov./26
Lulus, The online destination for chic clothing and affordable luxury is making the season bright by extending its Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals through Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Tuesday, Nov. 20 -- Saturday, Nov. 25 --- 25% off sitewide + free U.S. shipping
Promo Code: “No code necessary for free shipping. Not valid on previous purchases. Free shipping valid in the U.S. only. Coupon is valid in the U.S. and Canada only. Sunday, Nov. 25-Tuesday, Nov. 27. 40% off sale items + free U.S. shipping
Promo Code: “ No code necessary for free shipping. Not valid on previous purchases. Free shipping valid in the U.S. only. Coupon is valid in the U.S. and Canada only.
Koy Resort: The travel-friendly resort-wear and swim cover-up brand is offering online discount codes to kick off the holidays.Black Friday and Cyber Monday. 60% off all 2018 items and 20% off newly release 2019 items online from Friday, Nov. 23 through Monday, Nov. 26.
Privilege: A global fashion house for both men and women, dedicated to keeping up with fashion so you don't have to; believes in both budget-friendly and investment pieces. Black Friday - 30% off everything (online and in-store) from Friday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 25.
Cyber Monday -- 30% off everything online plus Free Shipping.
BEAUTY
KareCo: Luxury hair tool collection, with a new travel-friendly size of their best-selling Tangle Buster Brush™, now in Mini (9” x 2 ¼“) and colors! Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Free Shipping sitewide
Promo Code: “HOLIDAY”
Pharmagel: the age-defying beauty line, founded in 1987, boasts pharmaceutical-grade, natural plant-derived ingredients in its products, which are hypoallergenic, and absent of mineral oils and lanolin.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Pulse Skincare specialty line of skincare created for the super active. Offering travel-friendly sizes of multiple products, which are ideal for the active travelers on your list: Quick Fix Spray, Bruise Be Gone Serum, Sore Muscle Rub and more are small-batch, made in the USA, formulated with natural ingredients, and help prevent and resolve blemishes and pains for all explorers, (and athletes especially)!
Black Friday - 30% off site-wide with Code
Promo Code: - FREE Muscle Relief Bath Bomb on all purchases over $50.
An Acai-scented bath bomb, with Epsom Salt, Coconut Milk, Acai, and Grapefruit for muscle relief.
SPLURGE & SOCIAL CAUSES
ELECTRIC BIKE COMPANY: Designed and assembled entirely in Newport Beach, Electric Bike Company’s custom e-bikes are gaining popularity across the country. The well-thought-out designs come in two styles (with reasonable factory prices), combined with impressive comfort, safety, and reliability, making these electric cruisers unlike any other. Its technology is unmatched, and $1000 from each EBC purchase goes toward providing low cost, single-speed e-bikes to people in Africa – making these bikes the perfect opportunity to also give back this season.
Black Friday - Free Shipping on all orders starting Friday, Nov. 23 through Monday, Nov. 26. Promo code: "FREESHIPPING”
KALI’S KITS: Ready-made Middle School survival kit for girls; Donates a school kit to a student in need for every Kali’s Kit that is sold.
Black Friday - $5 off and Free Shipping. Promo Code: "Fab Friday"
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