So, you blew it. Valentine’s Day came and went — and whatever you came up with as a gift for that special someone bellyflopped worse than Shamu on a work day at Sea World.
Those of us without partners have to put up with the case of borderline Diabetes this saccharine holiday can cause, but we have no choice. You’ve got a partner to shoot an arrow through that bumbling mass of flesh that passes for your heart, and you still made it a painful Feb. 14 with whatever lame, cliched lump of a gift you so poorly chose.
You made Cupid cry.
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Fortunately, you’ve got a chance to salvage your romantic quota for first quarter 2016 with a service I tried out recently — igourmet.com. Consider the website an all-purpose, online clearing house for a barrage of elite, gourmet consumer products. Shoppers can acquire those sought after culinary items individually or assembled into specially themed gift baskets. It was one of those baskets that came my way recently for full digestive inspection.
The complete selection of iGourmet.com products is overwhelming in its complexity and abundance. The minds behind collecting all of those choices arrange them categorically on the website, but an amateur gourmet could easily get lost.
Say he or she is looking for a gift of gourmet cheese. There are more than 20 product choices of fromage at iGourmet.com, with multiple options of individual and grouped gourmet cheese under each category. To save the uninitiated from the headaches of dairy product research. iGourmet offers a selection of cheesy gift baskets arranged with everything the diner would need from soup to nuts (and cheese, of course).
The same iGourmet.com practice applies to everything from cocktails to meats to chocolate to baked goods to wine. My test bundle was a female-centric sweets-filled picnic basket of mixes for baking or enjoying with baked confections, including everything from lava cake to jams to compotes to cookies. If you were to bombard your disappointed significant other with such a cornucopia, it might just get your love out of the black rubber bag it was zipped into it as Valentine’s Day drew to a close.
A majority of the pre-packaged gift baskets on the site run between $100 and $200 each. That might bite into your budget a bit, but no one said restoring romance was cheap.
