3 gourmet items wrapped into one, food-lovers and Chicago-lovers dream gift:

• $50 to Pretty Cool Ice Cream, located in Logan Square. Pretty Cool Ice Cream specializes in frozen novelties, like your favorite treats from the ice cream truck, all hand-made by our talented team of skilled artisans with the best ingredients we can find. Each item is individually packaged and we work with local artists to create the art and design for each flavor for an overall look that is as diverse as our fair city. 


• Hello, My Name is Ice Cream is a combination of three books every ice cream lover needs to make delicious blends: 1) an approchable, quick-start manual to making your own ice cream, 2) a guide to help you think about how flavors work together, and 3) a dive into the science of ice cream with explanations of how it forms, how air and sugars affect texture and flavor, and how you can manipulate all of these factors to create the ice cream of your dreams. The book is written by Pretty Cool Ice Cream's founder and award-winning pastry chef Dana Cree


• $50 to Garret Popcorn, a locally made popcorn in Chicago.The first Shops in Chicago sold CaramelCrisp, CheeseCorn, Buttery and Plain for 5 cents a bag alongside homemade fudge and roasted nuts. Kernels were hot-air popped, CaramelCrisp was cooked in copper kettles, and finished recipes were hand scooped right before fans’ eyes. Just like today. Valid on GarrettPopcorn.com only. No cash value.