The world’s choicest foods are as close as your telephone or your mailbox when you catalog-shop for holiday hospitality treats and festive feasts for food lovers. Smoked salmon on your gift list?

January is the time to snuggle up indoors where its warm and flip through the seed catalogs that have been filling your mailbox this month. The beautiful photos and hundreds of varieties can set you ...

While mail-order companies may seem like a relic of the past, they served an important role in retail history and continue to operate to this day. Mail-order catalogs are physical books or booklets ...