With the Holidays just around the corner, I thought it would be fun to share my top gift picks for your foodie friend or family member! With food being such a huge trend right now, there are so many great things on the market.
Here are my 5 favorites:
The Love With Food Box
1) Love with Food Box: Of all the monthly subscription boxes out there, this one is my favorite. I’ve had it for about 6 months and I plan to give it too all my foodie friends this year. Basically, once a month, the Love With Food box send you a box of unique, interesting and difficult to find, snacks right to your home.
The box is healthy too! It is full of all-natural or organic snacks that will open your eyes to some pretty neat companies. Subscription memberships start as low as $10/month!
As a bonus, for every box you get in the mail, the company donates a meal to food banks such as the Feeding America Network or Share Our Strength.
Molecule-R Cuisine R-Evolution Kit
2.) Molecule-R Cusine R-Evolution Kit: If you’re not a foodie yourself, you’re probably thinking, what the heck is this? Well, let me explain! There is a HUGE culinary moment going on called “molecular gastronomy”. This type of cooking uses chemicals to transform ordinary ingredients.
While this culinary movement has been traditionally difficult to do in your own home (due to the crazy chemicals needed), this new kit changes the game. Imagine being able to make mint caviar beads that burst in the mouth, chocolate spaghetti, lemon foam or tzatziki spheres? “This “do it yourself” molecular gastronomy kit includes all you need to experiment at home with the molecular techniques seen on top chef and in high-end restaurants, but without the celebrity chef price tag.”
I bought this for my boyfriends Mom last year and she loved it! For only about $60, I think it’s a steal!
3) Nudo Italia: How cool would it be if you could adopt an olive tree on behalf of your foodie friend and then send them olive oil directly from that tree? Guess what, you can!
Nudo Italia, a subscription based gift allows you to do just that! After the tree has been adopted, the company will then send an gift pack to your recipient with a certificate and pamphlet that talks about the tree. Then, throughout the year (depending on how many times you pay for it), your friend/family member will receive shipments of the oil. Pretty neat!
As a side-note, no one has ever gotten this for me. Just sayin’… 🙂
4) A Customized Chef’s Coat: Last year, my boyfriends Mom got this for me and I literally feel like a rockstar every time I am in the kitchen (see photo proof of my excitement below).
There are lots of places you an order this. Here a couple of options:
a) http://www.culinaryclassics.com/
b) http://www.crookedbrook.com/chef-coats.htm
c)http://www.chefworks.com/
Me in my Chef’s Coat
5) Mushroom Kit: Even though I hate mushrooms, this is still a pretty cool gift. With this kit, you can grow your own mushrooms right from the box. With very little maintenance, you can grow up to a pound and a half of gourmet pearl oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days (trust me, that’s a lot of fungus)!
Everything your foodie friend will need is included and can be used to grows 2–4 crops. Best part about it? The product is made in the USA (and I’m always a huge proponent of supporting your own economy).
So that’s my Top 5 picks for 2013! Do you have any favorites foodie gift ideas?
Love always,
Erica
fun ideas! thanks!!