45 Cooking Gifts That'll Impress Any 'Foodie'

More from Brightland because we literally can't resist this mini assortment of olive oils.

Help them do a little traveling at home, in between trips, with an international food box. This is one of the best, filled with candies and snacks made and sold in Japan.

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.

A fancy Instagramable olive oil that comes in a chef-style squirt bottle. Perfect for a final drizzle over any of their high concept dishes.

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.

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.

This sleek, futuristic oven will have them making pizzeria-brick-oven-level pies from the comfort of their own backyard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We can't get enough of this wok—its design, its materials, its ability to cook literally anything to perfection. It more than earns its permanent place on the stove.

This nifty machine will let them infuse their oils and butters with any (yes, any, high-making or otherwise) herb of their choosing.

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.

If they're the one throwing the holiday party (they probably are), tell them you've got a charcuterie surprise and have this whole leg of Jamón delivered before the event.

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.

An apron that looks so good they might forget to take it off once they've finished cooking and cleaning.

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.

For the foodie with a sweet tooth, a dessert treat is never a bad way to go. Everyone deserves these famed monstrous cookies in their kitchen.