The right gift for that friend or client who thinks of themselves as the Indiana Jones of the culinary world. No rolling boulders here, but four times a year we’ll send a big box of eight to ten food surprises based on our most up to date food research and travel. Perhaps they’ll taste an olio nuovo, a coveted bottle of great olive oil, just pressed. Maybe a cheese from one of America’s small dairies, so regional it rarely leaves its neighborhood. Maybe the latest invention from Zingerman's Bakehouse, only available in Ann Arbor. All foods in the Culinary Adventure Society will be exclusively selected for its members. We'll include a collection of writing on the foods’ history and culture plus recipes for their use.

Bonus: free, autographed copy of Zingerman’s Guide to Good Eating with their first shipment. It’s guaranteed to impress and put its recipient on the cutting edge of taste-bud territory.

Prices include shipping and handling. $10 extra per installment for shipments to Alaska or Hawaii.

Since we order the foods especially for club members, we cannot change the ship dates of the club. Arrival Dates: December 17, 2009 March 25, 2010 June 24, 2010 September 30, 2010

Past Culinary Adventure Society treasures included: The first taste of Robert Lambert's Rangpur Lime Syrup. A rare cache of frost tea from high in the Himalayas. Mo's Bacon Chocolate Bar — before the rest of the country got to taste the phenomenon. Line-caught tuna from the Pacific Northwest. Wild thimbleberry jam, with fruit picked on the spring shores of Lake Superior.