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For the Bread and Butter Lover
CB2 Tatin Black Terracotta Butter Keeper
For the Bread and Butter Lover
CB2 Tatin Black Terracotta Butter Keeper
Nothing runs perfectly warm bread like waiting on cold butter. Straight out of the fridge, no good. Those spreadable plastic tubs my parents always have, also no good. This old-world invention lets you keep butter at room temperature without it going rancid.
Best Gift for Wine Lovers
Vinebox Tour of Europe Set
Best Gift for Wine Lovers
Vinebox Tour of Europe Set
You know the deal with boxes: a shipment of cool stuff packed up all nice that'll really make their day. With Vinebox, it's wine. Specifically, vials holding single glass servings of different varietals, to keep things interesting. Because when you eat a lot of excellent food, you need a lot of excellent wine to pair it with.
Best Charcuterie Board Gift
Murray's Cheese The MVP Charcuterie Platter
Best Charcuterie Board Gift
Murray's Cheese The MVP Charcuterie Platter
The Murray’s MVP platter is just that: a spread of the most valuable players to ever grace the charcuterie board field. You can’t go wrong with a Murray’s gift if they love cheese.
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Best Tasting and Best Looking Olive Oil
Baroncini Import & Co. Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Best Tasting and Best Looking Olive Oil
Baroncini Import & Co. Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil
A fancy olive oil in a tin beautiful yellow tin. It's gonna be front and center the next time they post a tablescape on Instagram.
Best Foodie Garden Gift
Organic San Marzano Tomato Seeds
Best Foodie Garden Gift
Organic San Marzano Tomato Seeds
Technically, they will never be able to call these San Marzanos. That's a legally guarded distinction that requires the tomatoes to be grown in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius... But! They can grow the world's most famous tomato in their backyard, and they'll almost taste the same.
Best Gift for Hosts
Uncommon Goods Compact Swivel Cheese & Tapas Board
Best Gift for Hosts
Uncommon Goods Compact Swivel Cheese & Tapas Board
This collapsible tapas board is for big entertainers. They can use it for cheese nights, appetizers, desserts, and more.
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Best Gift for the Crisp Lover
34 Degrees Snaps Variety Pack
Best Gift for the Crisp Lover
34 Degrees Snaps Variety Pack
Maybe they are always whipping up their own charcuterie boards. In that case, these are literally the best crisps on the market. Oh yeah, umami crisps exist.
Best Mini Gift
Brightland The Mini Artist Series
Best Mini Gift
Brightland The Mini Artist Series
More from Brightland because we literally can't resist this mini assortment of olive oils.
Best Wagyu Beef Gift
Snake River Farms Wagyu Starter Pack
Best Wagyu Beef Gift
Snake River Farms Wagyu Starter Pack
Now 17% Off
If they're a regular at Michelin-star restaurants, then they've surely tasted the top-notch quality that is Snake River Farm's wagyu beef. This starter pack will have them cooking up five-star (we hope) creations in their own home.
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Best Food Gift For Pasta Lovers
Williams Sonoma Imperia Pasta Machine
Best Food Gift For Pasta Lovers
Williams Sonoma Imperia Pasta Machine
They’ve graduated from their Airbnb experience at Nonna’s kitchen in Tuscany, so now they can make fresh pasta by themselves at home.
Best Foodie Subscription Gift
The Caviar Co. Sapphire Membership
Best Foodie Subscription Gift
The Caviar Co. Sapphire Membership
Everyone likes caviar, but even foodies rarely get a chance to taste caviar. Outside of restaurant menus, where they use caviar to just increase price, you rarely get to eat caviar.So, any foodie would love The Caviar Co. twice yearly subscription. Every May and November, they'll get a special shipment of 3-4 ounces of caviar and caviar-adjacent items.
If you want to give them a little taster on Valentine's Day, the wild harvested Hackleback is phenomenally fishy, or the farmed White Sturgeon is so smooth you could eat it by the spoon.
Best Food Delivery Gift
Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen - 2 Dozen Biscuits
Best Food Delivery Gift
Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen - 2 Dozen Biscuits
As a Georgia Boy, I can make decent biscuits, but once every few months I get a deep craving for the biscuits from this roadside joint where my girlfriend went to school. (I'd do a lot for a chicken biscuit right now...) Thankfully, they ship on Goldbelly now. If your foodie is from the South, get them biscuits. If they've never had good biscuits, get them biscuits.
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Best Balsamic Vinegar to Gift
Kosterina Fig Balsamic Vinegar
Best Balsamic Vinegar to Gift
Kosterina Fig Balsamic Vinegar
This is the best balsamic vinegar I have tasted in my entire life. If they're older and more traveled than me, it'll have competition, but it's up to the challenge. It's perfect in oil with bread, and it's phenomenal in a homemade vinaigrette.
Best Charcuterie Board Gift
The Citizenry Tikal Wood Serving Board
Best Charcuterie Board Gift
The Citizenry Tikal Wood Serving Board
A serving board that can also handle some light cutting is the best kind of gift, since its dual-purpose makes it incredibly functional.
Most Practical Gift
The Citizenry Linen Apron
Most Practical Gift
The Citizenry Linen Apron
An apron that looks so good they might forget to take it off once they've finished cooking and cleaning.
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Best Veggie Cookbook
Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook
Best Veggie Cookbook
Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook
That said, a more confident foodie might want some more challenging recipes. No one does veg as good as Yotam Ottolenghi and crew. The ingredients lists are long and the recipes are sometimes quite complex. It's exactly what a foodie will love.
Best Cooking Textbook
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Best Cooking Textbook
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Give a man a fish or teach a man to fish—you know the saying. This isn't a cookbook full of recipes, it's a textbook on how to cook. If they're one of the last people on Earth without this book, this year is the perfect opportunity to gift it.
Best New Piece of Cookware to Gift
GreenPan x Stanley Tucci Essential Stanley Pan
Best New Piece of Cookware to Gift
GreenPan x Stanley Tucci Essential Stanley Pan
Stanley Tucci is now a cookware mogul, on top of everything else. Everything from the actor's GreenPan collaboration is great, but if we had to recommend one piece, it would be this huge pan. Make pasta for a crowd, a fish stew on a weeknight, or use it like a wok for fried rice. It can do pretty much everything.
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Best Tinned Fish Gift
Fishwife Fly By Jing Smoked Salmon Trio
Best Tinned Fish Gift
Fishwife Fly By Jing Smoked Salmon Trio
You want me to get them tinned fish? Yes! They want you to get them tinned fish too! They see Fishwife at every specialty grocer but can never justify the purchase, this is an easy one.
Best Cooking Gift
Our Place Always Pan
Best Cooking Gift
Our Place Always Pan
Now 32% Off
If they're a foodie, they know what this popular Our Place pan is all about. If not, we'll break it down. It can be used as a frying pan, saute pan, steamer, skillet, saucier, saucepan, nonstick pan, and as a spoon rest.
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