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If you are looking for a gift idea for the food love, choosing gift items of unusual or unique flavors from around the world will provide fun and great taste. By searching the internet you can find different candies, foods, sauces and other foods not normally found on your grocery shelves. Choose by region or country when shopping. Place items in a gift basket, gift box or have it shipped directly to the gifted right from the company already wrapped and with a personal message from you.

North Idaho has the special luck of offering high altitude huckleberries used in every way possible. Begin with huckleberry candy bars or candy pieces to decorate the sides of your gift basket. Next add huckleberry pancake mix, syrup and even huckleberry butter. Then a jar of good huckleberry jams and jellies along with a sweet selection of breads and crackers. There are some companies that will deliver the best and ready to eat huckleberry ice cream or fresh berries when they are in season.

This tiny berry is a unique and tasty flavor of the northwest. It can only be harvested at very high altitudes during the hot summer months. It grows best when the summer is warm and there are times when the berry will grow for two years in between harvest times without producing berries. But they are harvested only a certain portion makes it back down the mountain, because their taste is so wonderful you just have to have a few.You thought this was good? Brace yourself: A huckleberry over my persimmon.