The Winter Holidays are just around the corner, and Mariposa Baking has plenty of gluten-free treats to celebrate! Here’s what to look forward to in December:

– Seasonal Panettone Bread – Enjoy this sweet, traditional Italian bread on your Holiday & New Years brunch or dessert buffet.

– Gingerbread People – Adorable & delicious.

– Vegan Chocolate Donuts – Available starting Fri. Dec. 16th!

– Coconut Pecan Macaroons – Perfect for the Chanukah Holiday and beyond.

– Pecan, Pumpkin & Apple pies – Handmade pie crusts with classic fillings – try them all!

For a unique gift for the meat lover in your life, Boccalone offers a Salami-of-the-Month club. Available in both 3-month and 6-month versions, Boccalone’s Salami-of-the-Month club brings the variety of Boccalone’s artisan salami, including favorites such as Soppressata, Orange-Wild Fennel Salame, and Nduja, into homes all over the U.S. Shipping is included to the lower 48 states. For more information, please visit Boccalone in the Ferry Building Marketplace.

Treat your friends and family to Hog Island Oyster’s bountiful Fruits De Mer platter this Holiday Season! Available on weekends, Hog Island Oyster Co. is now offering a chilled or roasted Fruits De Mer platter for all to enjoy. Including Dungeness Crab, Hog Island Sweetwaters, Gulf Shrimp, Littleneck Clams, Mussels and more. Anyway you shuck it, you are guaranteed to enjoy a plentiful platter of all the shellfish and crustaceans they have to offer. Items vary depending on seasonal availability!

• Oh, Christmas Tree Truffle Collection ($45, 16pc): Hazelnuts from Italy, Peppermint from Willamette Valley, Coffee from Hawaii. The new Oh, Christmas Tree truffle collection holds Recchiuti’s original 16 flavors, each made with the finest ingredients.
• White Christmas Truffle Collection ($85, 32pc): This Christmas, we’re dreaming of three layers of silky ganache and delicate pates de fruits. The 32-piece White Christmas truffle collection spans nearly our entire array of flavors. The collection comes with a legend describing each confection.
• Yuletide Tree Truffles ($21, 8pc): Wishing you a Christmas filled with merriment, goodwill, and many sweet moments in between. Gift Madagascar Varietal Truffles made with single origin Criollo cacao. Criollo is known for its complex flavors and exhibits notes of tart cherry and fruit.
• Let It Snow Truffles ($21, 8pc): Waking to a fresh snowfall, building snowmen in the park, sipping hot chocolate to keep you warm. A playful winter’s day adorns our signature Burnt Caramel Truffles made with a blend of smoky caramel and dark chocolate ganache.

Benedetta Farm-Sourced Skin Nutrients is holistically formulated to stimulate the skin’s natural ability to correct, protect, and rejuvenate at deeper levels through the use of 100% botanical formulas. With a keen formulative understanding of what the skin needs for youthful longevity, Benedetta is unsurpassed for authentic and original formulations. Every preparation is small-batch made with reverent intention to therapeutically assist the skins ability to be its best.

All Benedetta products make a great gift, but they suggest:

• 1 Trip to the Spa
• Seaweed Mask & Seaweed Bath
• Sacred Bath Duo
• Sampler Cans
• Travel & Gift Bags

In time for the holiday season, Fort Point Beer Company releases *Moon Phase*, its bourbon barrel-aged Belgian Quadrupel. A touch of smooth alcohol warmth blends with flavors of charred oak, gingersnap, and toffee to create the perfect fireside sipper. Offered in an attractive large-format bottle, Moon Phase makes the ideal gift for your beer-loving friends and family. While picking up a bottle, escape from the rush of holiday shopping by relaxing in our *heated beer garden* where we serve fresh draft beers, toasted soft pretzels, and all-beef hot dogs.

House-made Sugar Cookies and Jake’s Peppermint Bark in Tahitian V*[email protected] Humphry Slocombe calls it “a big scoop of freakin fa-la-la”. Available all month long. Happy Holidays!

Alice Waters will sign her new book Fanny in France: Travel Adventures of a Chef’s Daughter, with Recipes.

Fanny is a girl who knows a lot about food and cooking since she’s grown up in and around the famous restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. When Fanny’s mother, Alice Waters, the chef and owner of Chez Panisse, starts to watch her favorite old French movies, Fanny knows soon they’ll be packing their bags and traveling to France for a visit. In this sparkling book of whimsical stories, Fanny recounts some of her most fun-filled adventures with French friends and food. Join Fanny as she helps cook a huge bouillabaisse in Provence; learns how to make fresh cheese from a shepherd high up in the Pyrenees mountains; hunts for  wild oysters off the coast of Bordeaux, and discovers how one chicken can feed nine people, if served a certain way.

Fanny in France is also a beginner’s cookbook with forty simple, French-inspired recipes that encourage children and adults anywhere to cook and share delicious snacks and meals with family and friends using basic methods and the most sustainable ingredients.

This holiday season, give the gift of good food while supporting local farmers and food crafters in our community. At CUESA’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and Jack London Square Farmers Market, you’ll find the makings for wholesome winter feasts, along with unique gifts that nourish the body, the earth, and our local community. As the days turn cold and rainy, farmers market vendors count on loyal customers like you to help sustain their businesses year-round.

Miette’s traditional Buche De Noel is a tender Chocolate Chiffon cake rolled around milk chocolate mousse and glazed with bittersweet chocolate ganache decorated with holly leaves, meringue mushrooms and handmade pinecones out of Vahlrona chocolate. Miette will also have Cranberry Cheesecake, Holiday cakes, as well as Gingerbread houses and Holiday crackers. Order your holiday Pastries anytime before December 19 to have it in time for Christmas dinner.

On Wednesday, December 7th, the dynamic duo, Debbie Zachareas and Peter Granoff will be popping corks for two very special Champagne flights, accompanied by the one and only Hog Island Oyster Co. Sweetwater oysters. The festivities will start with bubbles at 4:00 pm and the Champagne will flow until they close at 9:00pm. Oysters will be served from 4:30 to 8:00pm. FPWM will offer the same pricing as Hog Island of $18 for a half dozen, $33 for a dozen and $62 for two dozen Sweetwater oysters.

Do you have a food lover in your life that’s hard to shop for? Prather Ranch Meat Co has got a solution. Prather Ranch Meat Company ships holiday gifts throughout California! Their Prathertarian Meat Club gift box is loaded with Prather Ranch’s tender dry-aged beef and Pure Country Farms’ Non-GMO Project verified heritage pork. Everything is sustainable and delicious. Reserve by December 17th and they will ship on the 19th. It’s at the door on the 20th. Use this promo code to save $10 on each gift box: pr1holiday  Place your order online now.

• Saturday, December 3rd: Musae singers 10am to 11am.
• Friday, December 9th: Alta Loma Middle School Jazz band, outside at the North Arcade 11:30am to 2:15pm
• Saturday, December 17th: Sacramento Youth Band 10:30am to 12pm