50 Best Food Gifts, Including Fancy Citrus, Cookbooks, and a Meatball Scoop

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My favorite category to gift from is food and dining. If you consider the breadth of options—readymade snacks, hosting essentials, kitchen sidekicks, beautiful cookbooks, specialty ingredients—there’s really something for everyone. I spend all year making note of new pantry staples, cool gear, and unique tabletop finds to share during gifting season, from brands big and small. This year’s cohort of presents starts at just $10 and includes ceremonial-grade matcha, a sweet wood butter box, ice cream-worthy spoons, and California citrus.

Best Food Gifts for People Who Love to Eat

Items to wrap up that let them dig right in: bonbons inspired by winter flavors, nearly a pound of pistachios, tinned spaghetti seaweed, and more.

Dandelion Chocolate

Winter Tales Bonbon Collection

$98

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Murray’s

Murray’s Alp Blossom, 1 Pound

$40

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Anthropologie

Green Dream Pantry Hazelnut Butter

$18

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Cheerie Lane

Cheerie Lane x Ribbon Set

$48

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Zingerman’s

Germack Pistachios, 14-Ounce Bag

$22

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Hawkins New York

Friandries Chocolate Fluff Candy Bar Gift Box

$18

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Frog Hollow Farm

Organic Satsuma Mandarins, 2 Pounds

$57

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Siesta Co.

Spaghetti Seaweed with Young Garlic in Olive Oil

$33

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Best Gifts for People Who Love to Drink

Tie a bow around any of these sips and tote along to the holidays—they’ll be thrilled. Non-alcoholic apertifs, Danish coffee, and magnums of Chablis are bonafide crowd pleasers.

Amazon

Strange Water Sparkling Coconut Water,

$45

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Parcelle

Moreau-Naudet Chablis Premier Cru ‘Forêts’ 2023 Magnum

$190

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Noma Projects

Noma Kaffe, 2 250-Gram Bags

$70

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Via Carota

Simon Pearce Negroni Set

$239

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Ghia

Le Spritz Blood Orange, 12-Pack

$60

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Amazon

Naoki Matcha Organic Ceremonial First Spring Blend

$45

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Total Wine

Suncliffe Cultivaro Amaro

$35

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Best Cookbooks to Gift

Perhaps my favorite category of reading material is cookbooks. The breadth of cuisine and technique among 2025 releases was far-reaching, and made it difficult to narrow down the most giftable. Here’s my edit, with many that would look just as good on a coffee table as splattered with oil after much use.

Amazon

Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi

$38
$23

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Good Things: Recipes and Rituals to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat

$45
$26

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Amazon

Russ & Daughters: 100 Years of Appetizing by Niki Russ Federman, Josh Russ Tupper, and Joshua David Stein

$40
$28

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Baking and the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh

$40
$35

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Amazon

My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook by Nite Yun

$34

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Amazon

Mokonuts: The Cookbook by Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem

$50
$43

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Amazon

Squeeze Me: Lemon Recipes & Art by Ruthie Rogers and Ed Ruscha

$45

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Bookshop

Silk Roads: A Flavor Odyssey with Recipes from Baku to Beijing by Anna Ansari

$35

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Amazon

Pastry Temple: Baking with Inspired Flavors by Christina Wood

$24

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Amazon

Kwéyòl / Creole: Recipes, Stories, and Tings from a St. Lucian Chef’s Journey by Nina Compton with Osayi Endolyn

$38
$20

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Best Food Gifts for Cooks

Special spices, sauces, and dried goods are perfect stocking stuffers or additions to a gift with multiple components. Pair cocktail salt with mixers or glassware, soy sauce with a wok, or jaggery with tea. And how cute is this dog-shaped pasta?

Big Night x Jacobsen Sea Salt

Spicy Cocktail Salt

$15

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Heraclea

The Aegean Flavors Gift Box

$64
$59

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Bucatini

Mill Valley Pasta Co Cagnatini “Little Dogs”

$12

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Roscioli NYC

Trio of Roscioli Sauces

$45

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Best Cookware Gifts

Well-designed cookware that can also hang out on a countertop is always a good idea. Consider a Japanese grater that can stand on its own, a retro scale, or an Italian meatball scoop.