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hmmm definitely needs cheesecake. freshly baked brownies/cookies that are still warm when you get them. plus different ice-cream choices to go with them. maybe self-serve style so you can get a little (or a lot) of each item that you want. yum!

taiwanese beef noodle soup :)

everything i ate with my mom and brother in tokyo... wonderful trip :)

mmm had a wonderful trip to japan with my mom- we ate everything!! definitely fun though to sit outside in hiroshima eating mister donut...and seeing my mom bite into a donut and get cream over her face. :)

When I was a kid we ALWAYS used to buy the blue tin of Danish butter cookies... yumm.
Now that I make my own, not sure about my favorite b/c I like to try new ones each time... but probably shortbread and its many variations.

omg!!! this was the cutest thing i've seen in a long time.. lol. thanks!

I must second the Tuscan White Bean Hummus... it is really the best storebought hummus I've ever had.
I also recently discovered the Tomato Chutney... AWESOME!! It is spicy, sweet, tangy, and goes great on their Vegetable Masala burgers microwaved with spinach ;)
And every time I MUST get their Nonfat European Style Yogurt (the kind in the big blue container)... it is so good plain, but goes great with cereal and bananas as well.
Must go this weekend...........

anything chocolate and peanut butter

I'm currently a junior, wishing I were a senior, and wanting to receive these items...

-Either the gianduja cream or hazelnut/chocolate cream... I LOVE nutella, and most people do... so a decadent grown up version of it would be greatly appreciated by most I believe
-Chocolate sourdough bread or chocolate cherry bread... to eat with the hazelnut cream!
-Zingerman's cream cheese... for seniors who think they have experienced it all but actually have not
-Rustichella Italian Pastas: pasta, the staple food of college students. transform the experience with rustic style pasta!
-Il Mongetto's Original Tomato Sauce: abandon the prego!
-Edward's Butter Toasted Peanuts: Everyone loves Honey-Roasted... why not Butter Toasted?? I love having huge tins of nuts to snack on.
-1 magic brownie, 1 dulce de leche brownie, 1 orange almond brownie, 1 pecan blondie. 1 for each year of school completed? Or....just because then you'd get to taste 4...

I'm not sure how much $ this amounts to, but give or take, this would make a wonderful, perfect basket for me! :) Not too many things that would go bad without eating them quickly (even though, theoretically people share and eat a lot in college, I am still one to worry about these things), and yet, still a wonderful assortment of foooood!!!

I agree... bolognese is wonderful. As much as I love vodka sauce, carbonara, etc, with bolognese, you can just keep eating it and eating it...

My biggest disaster is probably my first ever pumpkin pie. The filling was outright disgusting. Fortunately, I have improved since that first dreaded pie...

I really enjoyed Chez Dumonet...read the recommendation from David Lebovitz's site...yum!! Their duck confit was great, but what I truly loved was their mille-feiulle :)

Yay, great list... But Tinto/Amada should definitely be on that list somewhere... my favorite restaurants so far!
I'm still dreaming of the days when I can visit Osteria and Vetri though. Sigh.