Whether you’re just a foodie, or a seasoned Dinner Party host, wear what you eat with Delicacies accessories.

Carefully designed, crafted and created by Designer and Co-Founder Nicolle Nelson, each ingredient celebrates the natural beauty, simplicity, and meaning ingrained in the food we eat. To tell the whimsical, meaningful stories behind the chosen ingredients represented in the collection, Delicacies has researched mythology, history and lore the world over to identify the energies each brings into our lives.

Fall is all about the flavors, and while everyone gravitates towards Pumpkin Spice, there are plenty of other seasonal tastes to be excited about. Delicacies’ Corn, Ginger, Garlic, Carrot, and Pig bracelets and gold pendants represent these flavors perfectly. They also have a coffee bracelet for the Pumpkin Spice Latte lovers out there too. Both the bracelets and necklaces can be layered to mix and match ingredients together.

The bracelet collection features a selection of iconic ingredients including fruits and vegetables such as artichoke, carrot, corn, pepper, pineapple, onion and tomato; meat and dairy options of cow, pig, chicken, and egg; seafood selections of octopus, crab, and lobster; specialties like cacao and coffee bean; and spices and herbs including basil, ginger and chili pepper. The bracelets are available in two sizes: the original “Delicacies” size (5 mm wide) and a wider “Thick Cut” size (half-inch wide). Thick Cuts are available in natural, brown or black. Delicacies are available in natural, black, brown or white.

In collaboration with chef Andrew Zimmern, Delicacies has created its own Chef’s Table, the brand’s conduit for charitable giving, which will feature three generous, well-known chefs each year to harness a shared love of food to fight hunger. Delicacies’ first Chef’s Table includes Chefs Marcus Samuelsson, Dominique Crenn, and Gavin Kaysen. Each Chef’s specific charity will be featured in four-month increments and announced prior to launch. San Francisco-based Crenn is the featured Chef until July of 2016. She has requested proceeds benefit the SF-Marin Food Bank.

For every bracelet purchased Delicacies will donate at least ten meals to the hunger relief organization with whom they are currently partnered with.

DIAMOND PENDANTS

14K GOLD PENDANTS

THE STORY

“The idea for Delicacies came to me in a dream. A fever dream, to be exact, the result of a bout with Dengue Fever, a rather common malady in tropical climates, including Yucatán, Mexico, where I have been living on and off for the last 8 years. On that particular morning in November 2013, I was visited by a vision. I saw so clearly the tiny, elegant head of garlic, shining brightly on leather, fastened around my wrist. (Nothing like this has never happened to me before. I don’t walk around dazed by epiphanies.)

I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, loving spring and summer and its delicious bounty: pick-’em-and-eat-’em raspberries and strawberries, panfried, freshly-caught walleye, perfectly-ripe tomatoes, and sweet corn, knee-high by the Fourth of July. Minnesota winters, however, were a different story—which is why my husband, daughter and I started spending the snowy months in Merida, Mexico, and now live there (here!) almost full-time.

Before Delicacies, I worked in media relations for 18 years. I am a mom to a beautiful 8-year-old daughter who is growing up in Mexico but loves her Minnesota summers as much as I do. My supportive husband (and partner in Delicacies) John, has worked with Andrew Zimmern, food lover, adventurer and host of Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, for the past 15 years. We have always been passionate about food — but through our experiences, and Andrew’s influence — we’ve started thinking about food in a new way.

Food is a way of knowing ourselves and relating to others. It’s a lens through which we see the world; a principle to organize the chaos, the noise, the suffering, the joys and rituals and everyday adventures. We can connect with different cultures through food, and afterwards realize that we aren’t so different after all. For all of us everywhere, the conversations we have over a communal meal bring meaning and order and joy to our lives.

Delicacies is a dream that I am excited to realize. I love the idea of ingredients as pretty, wearable tokens that bring us home, in an instant, wherever we may be. Delicacies is about finding your center, with food as your guide. It’s about honoring and respecting simple ingredients, and recognizing a bit of ourselves in them. We are food lovers, story tellers, knowledge gatherers on a long journey. I hope you’ll come along.”

– NICOLLE NELSON, CO-FOUNDER & DESIGNER OF DELICACIES

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