Specialty Chocolates, Christmas Cakes at Largo's German Deli

During the last 12 days before Christmas, Largo Patch will share gift ideas from local businesses each day to help wrap up your holiday shopping.

Enjoy chocolate with liqueur? Prefer stollen, the German sweet bread, filled with fruit and nuts? Stepping into the Largo's German Deli and Wursthaus around the holidays is similar to going to one of the Christmas Markets in Germany, where stores and stands are stuffed with baked goods and spicy holiday wines. For Christmas, the East Bay Drive deli carries a wide selection of specialty chocolates with liqueur, fresh-baked Christmas cookies, calendars filled with chocolates, holiday wines and gingerbread. Throughout the year the shop carries  sausages, bread, noodles, mustard and other imported products . Want to read about other local places to shop? Sign up for the Largo Patch email newsletter to get our headlines delivered to your inbox …

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Perusing the shelves of nostalgic candy many Baby Boomers remember from their childhood, Karen Hone picks up something that is appropriate as Christmas morning draws nearer. It is a piece of chocolate in the shape of a lump of coal. "This is for anyone who is on Santa's naughty list," Hone said. "Many of us recall when we were kids and we were told if we were bad we would get coal in our stocking." Hone's life revolves around nostalgia. The former Belleaire Bluffs city councilwoman operates The Coffee Mill, a coffee bar and old-fashioned country store that was opened by her mother, Alice Schoelles, in 1976. "My mom is in her 80s and still comes in three days a week," Hone said. "This place is like home to me. My kids have worked here, my …

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Aiyana Baida

10:21 pm on Monday, December 20, 2010

Jeanne, thanks for catching those. Will do better next time...thanks for reading.   more ›