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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.
Best Mini Gift
Brightland The Mini Artist Series
More from Brightland because we literally can't resist this mini assortment of olive oils.
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.
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Best Gift For Food With a Sweet Tooth
Levain Bakery Levain Signature Cookie Assortment
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.
Best Wagyu Beef Gift
Snake River Farms Wagyu Starter Pack
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.
Best for Experimental Chefs
LEVO II Infuser
This nifty machine will let them infuse their oils and butters with any (yes, any, high-making or otherwise) herb of their choosing.
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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.
Most Fun Foodie Gift
Mercado Famous Whole Jamon Serrano
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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 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
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.
Best Olive Oil to Gift
Graza "Drizzle" Extra Virgin Olive Oil
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.
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Best for Backyard Chefs
Ooni Koda Outdoor Pizza Oven
This sleek, futuristic oven will have them making pizzeria-brick-oven-level pies from the comfort of their own backyard.
Most Useful Food Gift
Jacobsen Salt Co. Salt Sourced 8 Vial Set
Savory or sweet, no dish is complete without a pinch of salt. This gourmet variety of infused sea salts—from Black Lava to Pink Peruvian salt—will impress any real foodie.
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.
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Best Tablescape Gift
Mepra Italian Flatware Fantasia Flatware Set
They if take pride in having luxury kitchen items, then there's no doubt the Merpa flatware set should be in their arsenal. Made with the utmost quality, these sets come in an assortment of colors that are honestly, just fun.
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.
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