31 Christmas Gifts for Foodies to Treat Your Special Someone

Want to truly pamper a favorite foodie? Treat them to cheese!

Jasper Hill Farms is an award-winning cheesemaker known both for their own cheeses and for working with other cheesemakers large and small to develop and age outstandingly delicious cheeses.

Club members get access to new and hard-to-find faves, as well as treats like charcuterie, pickles, and more. You can sign up for a single month, or multiple months, and let the gift keep giving!

We all depend on pantry staples for those quick and easy dinner weeknights. But there are so very many more pantry staples that have the ability to really change your whole weeknight dinner experience, without making the meal much more complicated to cook.

Ann Pittman and Scott Mowbray have done the work, finding delightful foods from around the world, and finding easy, fun ways. to turn them into dinner.

We're low-key obsessed with this super smart cookbook.

If you know a wine lover who's into Napa Valley, then chances are good they're very well aware of Flora Springs. Their very well appointed wines are worth the splurge. Each year they release a limited number in beautiful etched bottles — perfect for gifting, and/or serving at the holiday meal.

You can also find individual holiday bottles for sale.

If you know an avid home bartender — whether they're a budding mixologist or are well skilled with a shaker —this no-nonsense collection is sure to become their new cocktail bible.

The book collects nearly 400 cocktail recipes — organized chronologically, by first known year (or period) of creation. And it smartly limits itself to drinks that are truly innovative, or popular. If you've heard of a drink, chances are good it's in here.

Each recipe is accompanied by a short history — just enough info for a home bartender to regale a guest while mixing up the drink.

We love cooking with cast iron here, but I'm going to be honest: while there are a lot of new cast-iron pan manufacturers out there, and I've had a chance to try a lot of them, nothing has seemed to equal the vintage cast iron pans that I've collected.

New pans tend to suffer from two main drawbacks: They are either heavier, or not nearly as smooth, or both.

But Lancaster Iron's Pennsylvania-made pan seems to defy all that. It's as light as my Griswold, very evenly balanced, and the interior is as smooth as if I'd been cooking with it for years. After just a week of testing, fried eggs floated around inside it like I was cooking with nonstick.

They've only be around for a few years, but this impressive company seems to be making the best new cast iron out there.

This handy little surface thermometer has about a million uses around the kitchen.

Want to make sure your pan is hot enough before frying eggs? Want to check the accuracy of your oven's temperature before baking, or look around for hot and cold spots? Want to make sure your fridge is actually cold enough? Or that your grill is hot enough? Then you want this.

We probably pull this little gadget out about 5 times a day when we're cooking in the kitchen. It's super fast, very accurate, and great for the gadget-obsessed cook.

If you know someone who loves beautiful looking, well-crafted snacks and sweets, then consider giving them this monthly gift box.

Each month, Sakuraco picks a different area of Japan, and then works with artisan sweets, crackers, and tea makers there to curate a box of beautiful, interesting, and above-all tasty treats.

The box comes with a booklet detailing each item, where it came from, who made it, and more. You can sign up for just one box, or start a subscription.

You might recognize Elizabeth Poett from her popular Magnolia Network show, Ranch Table, which chronicles her life as an 8th generation California cattle rancher.

Whether or not you've seen the show, this book feels like a must-have for anyone who loves farm-fresh meals with that unique mix of Central California flavor, and stories about what it's like living on a true working ranch.

This simple, sturdy stand easily holds cookbooks, iPads, or phones so you can read and follow a recipe without worrying about your book or device getting covered in ingredients.

It's such a smart item we started carrying it in our own online store!

Harry & David's super ripe Royal Riveria pears have been a classic holiday gift staple since the two brothers first started selling them through by mail-order from their Oregon orchard in the 1930s.

The company has since branched out to hundreds of other gifts. But their pears, still grown in southern Oregon and arriving at peak ripeness, are still one of our favorite Christmas treats.

You hear a lot about olive oil. Less so about sunflower oil—though maybe that should change.

This extra-virgin sunflower oil is suprisingly flavorful, and yet also has a high smoke point. We've been using it regularly both to cook with and in homemade salad dressings. And we're almost as big a fan of the packaging, with its lightproof, shatterproof, easy-to-recycle cans, and super easy spouts.

Give a bottle or two as a stocking-stuffer, and you'll be turning your favorite cook onto their new favorite cooking oil.

If a warm cup of tea sounds indulgent, then this delightful canister is just the thing. Featuring a touch of maple flavor, this tea is especially good with a little milk, on a cold day, while reading a book, in front of a fire.

This classic book is a must-have for any adventurous cook who likes to go off-recipe: It features hundreds of short essays and meditations, from a couple lines to a couple paragraph, on pairings of over one hundred different ingredients, to help spark imagination and creativity in the kitchen.

Curious whether blue cheese goes with butternut squash? Or how mint and figs might pair up? Niki Segnit has written about it here, in often startlingly poetic ways.

We also love the plant-forward sequel!

Look. We know fruitcake can be a divider.

But that's because not enough folks have had the pleasure of trying this fruitcake.

It skips the mint-green candied cherries and the doorstop heft of fruitcakes you know for actual dried fruit, and a light, handmade cake. Then it tosses in some Texas pecans and soaks the whole thing in a good brandy.

Pro tip: Open this particular present on Christmas Eve, so you can enjoy a slice on Christmas Morning with a cup of coffee before the presents get opened.

Does your favorite coffee drinker need a better travel mug?

I've tested a fair number over the years, but this one seems to have them all beat. The smart twist-open lid gives you 360° of sip-ability, but still seals tight enough you can throw a full cup in a bag or backpack without worry. It's dishwasher safe and easy to clean, so no more old-coffee smell. And it's more than drop proof: Like all Yeti products, it's as sturdy as can be.

Butcherbox is one of the best known meat subscription services, and they rated very highly in our recent taste test.

If you've got a meat-lover on your gift-list, you could could make their month by filling their freezer with high-quality ribeyes, strip steaks, filets mignon, and more.

Or you could make their year and sign them up for a monthly subscription!

It's hard to believe how handy this sturdy tool is until you actually use it, but this sturdy spatula is the do-anything device that will quickly become indispensable.

We've used it to crush garlic, to break up ground beef, gently scramble eggs, and even to finish chopping some diced veggies after they were in the pan.

Think of this stocking-stuffer as the little thing a cook wouldn't think to get themselves, but that they'll be surprised they love so much.

You can use these easy-to-fill squeeze bottles to keep cooking oil right by the stove, and to apply a precise amount directly to the pan, with no spills or mess.

It's that time of year when big family meals are king. Celebrate feeling stuffed with our Country Living custom T-shirt. It'll stretch over full bellies, we promise!