Gifts for Food Lovers

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For: Your Local Chocoholic

Package truffles in colorful cellophane bags, then tie with a ribbon and the recipe. For an accompanying item, choose their passion: cute and cozy hot chocolate, or a bottle of bubbly?

Complement the truffles with items like…:

For: The TV Chef Fanatic

Recipe: Popcorn Olé

For the TV food-show junkie in your life, pop up a batch of spicy popcorn from Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of Two Hot Tamales fame. Bag and tie with a ribbon; attach the recipe and...

Complete a chef-lover's gift basket with items like these:

For: The Grill Master

Recipe: Spice-Rubbed Sirloin Steaks

To please the griller in your family, mix up the spice rub and include it in a tin or baggie tied with a ribbon. Place the recipe in a colored envelope and add a complementary gift:

Ideas for a grilling good time:

For: An English Garden Tea Host

Recipe: Popovers

If you are delivering this gift immediately, bake the popovers and include the recipe. Otherwise, measure the flour and salt in the popovers, place in a sealed baggie and attach instructions for completing the recipe, then add a gift:

High tea trinkets:

Loop Teakettle

Garden Gift Set (teapot, cups, tea)

Tupelo Honey in Fluted Bottle

Nonstick Popover Pan

For: The Bread (and Cheese) Lover

Recipe: Nut Bread

For the Atkins-be-damned bread fanatic, bake a loaf and tie with a ribbon with the recipe attached. For a trendy accompaniment, dipping oils are the rage, but we've also suggested premium cheeses and that wonder of all aromatic wonders, a bread machine.

Bread-lovers' loves:

For: The Roman Holiday Dreamer

Recipe: Biscotti

Deliver everything they'd need for an antipasti picnic, with crisp biscotti as the sweet ending. Biscotti can be placed in a tin with the recipe, while antipasti ingredients like those below can be attractively arranged in a picnic basket.

Quite Continental accompaniments:

For: The Cocktail Entertainer

Recipe: Toasted Spiced Almonds

Fill an ice bucket like the one below with your spicy almonds, then include the recipe in a small envelope on top. For the truly dedicated cocktail crowd, include the martini glasses and recipe book.

Gifts that make it a party:

For: The Coffee Connoisseur

Recipe: Pecan Coffee Cake

This gift guarantees a good cup of Joe and sweet start to the day. Bake the coffee cake, wrap with colored plastic and tie with a bow, attaching recipe. Combine with a gift like one below; you could pack the mugs with the coffee beans for an attractive presentation.

Good gifts are a-brewing:

For: A Neighborhood Cookie Monster

Recipe: Chocolate Brownie Cookies

A crowd-pleasing gift for all ages, make the cookies and fill a cookie jar like the one below with luscious chocolate cookies. Place the recipe in a note card on top to ensure that the jar's never empty.

Accompany cookies with gifts like these:

For: The Breakfast Buff

Recipe: Cranberry-Maple Muffins

With a basket full of muffins, and recipe included, plus a gift of pancakes, bacon or just the right red skillet, they'll be greeting the holiday morning in style.

Add a gift from this breakfast buffet:

For: A Perfect Pie Artist

Recipe: Cherry-Berry Lattice Pie

For the baker in your family, impress them by presenting a home-baked pie in a beautiful new pie dish. A spoon set or mixer could be wrapped separately, and don't forget to include the pie recipe in an envelope!

Pie-maker's delights:

For: The Asian Cuisine Enthusiast

Recipe: Fresh Teriyaki Sauce

Give a taste of the East with a jar of homemade teriyaki sauce, tied with a ribbon and the recipe. Among the suggested gifts below, the knives will come in handy for all Asian cuisines.

East meets gift:

Sushi Chef Sushi-Making Kit

Red Wok Set

East/West Cutlery Set in Bamboo Box

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