
This ecothermal glass vessel is designed to keep beverages hot or cold, all while remaining comfortable to the touch.
Whether they’re professional chefs or Food Network fans, the foodies in your life deserve the perfect gift. And we’ve got tasty ideas ranging from fun stocking stuffers to food-related jewelry!
For those tea and coffee lovers on your list, behold the earth-friendly and sleek Aquaovo Therm-O Terra Thermos ($27). Clean, elegant, and never too hot to touch, it has a gorgeous wooden top and a food-grade, lead- and BPA-free base with a glass bottom and removable stainless steel strainer and silicone splashguard.
We told you about Fōnuts, the hip L.A. bakery that’s serving up a healthier take on traditional doughnuts. If you want to make easy baked donuts at home, try this adorable baby blue Sunbeam Mini Donut Maker ($29.99), which produces seven tiny doughnuts in less than five minutes. Simply drop the batter in the slots, close the lid — as you would a waffle iron — and voila! These warm, puffy, nongreasy treats are yours when the ready light appears.
For those who can’t go a day without greens, these fluttery 24-karat-electro-plate Golden Kale Leaf Earrings ($98-$118) will hit the spot. Vegetarian jewelry designer, Rae Leah, has created them in two sizes, the large, long-dangle style with a 14-karat-gold-filled chain and the smaller, shorter ones with a 14-karat-gold-filled ear wire.
The slice-and-dice set will appreciate this stainless steel index to four polypropylene cutting boards ($80), each color-coded for the appropriate food group (green for veggies, blue for seafood, red for meat, and white for cooked foods) to avoid cross contamination. Neatly organized, each board has an attached stainless steel tab marked with an appropriate food icon (for example, a carrot marks the veggie board) for easy retrieval.
Light, tender, and sweetened with brown rice syrup, not corn syrup, these gluten- and fat-free Sydney’s Cinnamon Plush Puffs Gourmet Marshmallows ($6.49-$12.99) will delight young and old — out of the bag, broiled to make s’mores or as a fun garnish to our new favorite hot cocoa recipe. We suggest cinnamon, but these feathery cubes come in myriad other flavors, such vanilla bean, chocolate chip, lemon meringue and caramel swirl.
The Nudo Adopt An Olive Oil Tree gift ($109) is for that foodie who seems to have everything — except an Italian olive tree (adopted for a year) and the shimmering, green organic olive oil it produces. The recipient will get an adoption certificate with information on his/her tree, followed by a spring package of 1.5 liters of extra-virgin cold-pressed oil from the tree’s olives. The autumn package includes three tins of flavored oils, such as lemon and Sicilian chile. If you’re in Italy and would like to visit your tree, just drop Nudo a line ahead of time!
Ideal for students, movie or sports fans or any popcorn lovers, this apple-red electric Cuisinart EasyPop Hot Air Popper ($39.95) can shoot out 10 cups of popcorn in less than three minutes with no oil (though it is equipped with a butter warming tray). It’s a healthy, happy snack machine that will make a cheerful addition to any counter.
Instead of plunking down $1,000 a pound for the edible version, you can treat your loved one to truffles with these sumptuous, yet affordable Truffle Body Gel or Truffle Body Milk from Sabatino & Co Roma ($28.80-$32). Made in the Umbrian region of Italy, the aromatic exfoliating body gel contains truffle extract and crushed apricot kernels, while the creamy body milk comes infused with truffle extract, organic rosemary and musk rose.
What are you buying for the foodie on your list this year?
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