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Best Mini Gift
Brightland The Mini Artist Series
More from Brightland because we literally can't resist this mini assortment of olive oils.
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 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.
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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 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 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 Food Gift for Travelers
Bokksu Box Japanese Snack Box Subscription
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.
Best Cookware Gift for Foodies
Made In Blue Carbon Steel Wok
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.
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 Linens Gift
RRL Plaid Napkin Set With Leather Sliders
How about some fancy Western-inspired napkins for their table?
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 Entry-Level Cookbook
Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
The undisputed greatest, no one makes cooking and entertaining as accessible as Ina. Anything Barefoot Contessa is a must-have for any aspiring home-cook or dinner party host.
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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.
Most Affordable Caviar Gift
The Caviar Co. Cooking With Caviar Cookbook
If actual caviar isn't in the budget at the moment, get them a cookbook to study. Then get them a tin for their birthday.
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For After Dinner Espresso
SMEG Semi-Auto Espresso Maker
Every home chef loves to offer a post-dinner espresso. Get them the perfect tool for the job in a deep, romantic red.
Best Looking Stovetop Kettle
Alessi 9093 Kettle
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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.
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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 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.
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