Hediard ground coffee tin / Café Hediard

Hédiard's faithful adherence to ancestral methods of selecting premium ingredients and impressive preparations have proven their worth in a demanding culinary culture. Hédiard's ground coffee blends are no exception. This Mélange Hédiard is an outstanding brew served with cream or without and provides an excellent finish to any meal.

8.81 ounces / 250 Grms of Hédiard Ground Coffee by Hédiard

Hediard Tea / The Hediard

Many Hediard specialties are produced in-house in Provence, where the essences of premium ingredients are captured through faithful adherence to ancestral methods. Just reading through the selection of teas is impressive, a taste is convincing…quality and prestige defines Hediard.

.4 Onces / 125 Grms of Hediard blend tea By Hediard

Herbal Tea Products by Les 2 Marmottes

 Surrounded by the mountains and guided by tradition, les 2 Marmottes have long been earnestly gathering plants in secret for their naturally delicious recipes. Relaxing or uplifting, purifying or slimming, or simply enjoyable infusions that warm or refresh, their infusions will gently restore your balance and offer you a treasure trove of benefits.

Located in the Alps at Bons-en-Chablais, they are responsible for the supply and storage of plants, the mixing of infusions, the bagging, the packaging as well as the shipping of all their products.

Hot Chocolate Mix / Chocolat en Poudre

If you've warmed up over a hot chocolate at the local brasserie on a wintry French day, this hot chocolate mix will bring back fond memories. The chocolate flavor is strong and true. Depending on your philosophy, you can add the powder to the milk once hot or mix the powder with cold milk and heat the two together while stirring. For a creamier result, you can whip the mixture once hot or steam it using the attachment on an espresso machine. If you want to throw all caution to the winds, use half and half and white chocolate to sweeten the mix; we guarantee a hot chocolate you'll never forget. You can also use the powder as the base for a chocolate fondue.

Voisin · Hot chocolate · 250g (8.8 oz) · $8.99

Carte Noire is a great French classic, with its famous advertising slogan, "Un café nommé désir" ("a coffee named desire"). Known for the perfection of its aroma, it is made from carefully roasted Arabica beans, and is a full, well-balanced coffee that is not at all bitter. It is already ground.

Carte Noire · Coffee · 250g (8.8 oz) · $9.99

Ricoré

Sixty percent chicory and forty percent coffee, this instant drink promises to "make you a morning person" (devenir du matin).

Nestlé · Ricoré · 100g (3.5 oz) · $11.90

Banania

This popular children's breakfast drink combines sugar, chocolate, three grains (wheat flour, barley flour, and malted wheat flour), banana, and honey. Its history is a case study in marketing. In 1909, while traveling in Nicaragua, banker and journalist turned adventurer Pierre Lardet discovered a drink based on banana flour, crushed grains, cocoa, and sugar. Upon his return to France, he recreated this miracle drink with the help of a pharmacist friend. He began selling the product in 1912, emphasizing its supposed health benefits, and trademarked the recipe in 1914. The first tins featured the image of a smiling Antillaise. In 1915, a new image appeared, that of a Senegalese sharpshooter, a figure much on the minds of the French as tens of thousands of Senegalese fought in the trenches of WWI. His red and blue uniform provided a striking contrast to the yellow background, the yellow evoking the still-exotic banana. Never one to miss a PR opportunity, Lardet shipped 14 wagons of Banania to the troops on the front lines to give them "force et vigeur." Company legend has it that the trademark slogan "y'a bon," pidgin French for "it's good," came about when an injured Senegalese infantryman, hired to work in the Banania factory, pronounced his opinion on the drink. During WWII the factory, being in occupied France, was closed; it reopened near Clermont Ferrand, using a modified recipe because of wartime shortages. And the marketing went on, rife with dark wartime humor: "DCA: Défense contre l'anémie" (defense against anemia, playing on the acronym for defense contre avions, antiaircraft guns); "Après l'alerte, c'est le réconfort" (after the bomb alert, the comfort), "Tous les matins, je réquisitionne mon Banania" (every morning I requisition my Banania). In the years since WWII, the company has been sold and resold, and the advertising character became more and more stylized, until 1987, when the slogan was retired and the image replaced by more abstract drawings, first of a smiling sun, then of small boy. In 1999, probably thinking to capitalize on nostalgia, the company resurrected a stylized reprensentation of the Senegalese that had first appeared in 1959;

In 2003 new owner Nutrial brought back the "y 'a bon" slogan. The strategy backfired. A group of Antillese, Guyanese, and Reunionese took the company to court, arguing that the image and slogan were racist and insulting. A compromise was reached in 2006 whereby the image was kept and the slogan dropped.

Banania · Chocolate breakfast mix · 400g (14.1 oz)