Brigade Talent 2025 Custom Gifts

This year's collection celebrates the kind of talent that inspires us most — makers who've taken bold creative leaps to follow their passion. From one woman's efforts to preserve local fruit to a farm-family that has chased their dreams together, these are stories of creativity and courage for your clients.

Priced at $184 each.

• Sqirl Fruit Spread
• Ragged Coast 8-Piece Maine Farm Truffle Collection
• Matinicus Salt Farm Sea Salt
• Pen & Cob Farm Spruce Syrup
• Narrative Food Caramels for the Climate
• Narrative Food Pomes for the People
• Island Creek Little Neck Clams with Confit Garlic, Chili, & Olive Oil
• Amolitta Pasta
  

This quote is valid for a minimum of 40 boxes.

• Custom collateral included.
• Hand-wrapped with luxe packaging and bow.
• Free carbon-neutral shipping.
• Shipping on Monday, December 8th.
• Includes a $10 donation to World Central Kitchen or another nonprofit of your choice.

The Stories Behind The Gifts

• Sqirl Fruit Spread: What started as Jessica Koslow's tiny jam company has become an internationally acclaimed restaurant. This is the original creation that started it all — preserving fresh fruit from more than 40 local farmers. Each jar celebrates the hands that make help make this journey from flower to jar: the farmers, the jam maker, and finally you.  Flavor TBD (7.75 oz)
• Ragged Coast 8-Piece Farm Truffle Collection: Kate Shaffer became famous for making chocolate on the remote island of Isle au Haut; today, she is a Top Ten Chocolatier in North America and a three-time Good Food Award winner. She says that the secret is the ingredients: every truffle is made with single-origin, directly-traded chocolate from growers who treat their land with respect, paired with local ingredients from neighbors-and-farmers she has met along the way. (12 oz)
• Matinicus Salt Farm Sea Salt: Usha Beaudoin chose to build her innovative salt farm twenty-two miles offshore, among the tight-knit island community that embraced her after she was adopted from India as a child. As the 10th generation of her family on Matinicus, she uses the power of the sun to transform the island's pristine seawater into delicate salt crystals that capture the pure essence of these remote waters. (1.4 oz)
• Pen & Cob Farm Spruce Syrup: Five years ago, this family sold their suburban New Jersey house, loaded their three kids into a camper, and drove north with no final destination in mind. After three months on the road, they found their calling harvesting spruce tips by hand each spring. Never diluted, this surprisingly citrus-tasting syrup is macerated in organic brown sugar that pulls the oils from the tips — their family's sole income now comes from what they can harvest, produce, and sell. (5 fl oz)
• Narrative Food Caramels for the Climate: The same beloved caramels your team raved about, now in packaging that tells a bigger story about purpose and taste working hand-in-hand. Jilly of Virgo Moon makes her deliciously slow-crafted caramels by hand, using local ingredients and sea salt from her home in Maine. Every bite of this small-batch treat supports her local food system while delivering pure, buttery bliss. (1.75 oz)
• Narrative Food Pomes for the People: These organic heirloom apples and pears come from 5 Star Nursery & Orchard, where our neighbors Molly and Tim preserve the diversity of our fruit heritage and cultivate native plants in their bio-diverse orchard. Every piece is harvested-to-order — when they're gone, they're gone... at least until next fall. (1.5 oz)
• Island Creek Little Neck Clams with Confit Garlic, Chili, & Olive Oil: Skip Bennett spent eight years as the only person growing shellfish in Duxbury Bay, funding his dream through wild harvesting while barely paying the bills. Now his oysters are the house choice at The French Laundry and Per Se. These premium clams are the only tins you'll find from the East Coast — they are supremely tender and flavorful with a perfect balance of salt and heat from chili de árbol. (4.2 oz)
• Amolitta Pasta: Bronze-extruded for texture that clings to sauce, dried low and slow for true "al dente" quality... This rustic pasta is made with American-grown durum wheat semolina but crafted with the best equipment from Italy and expertise from an Italian pasta master. Think delicious old-world technique with new-world values. Pair with Island Creek's little neck clams for a sumptuous dine-in. (16 oz)