Tuesday December 13 5:00 to 6:00pm: Gifts for the Cook
Books for the Cook
Our Recommendations
- The New Best Recipe
- Mrs. Appleyard's Kitchen
- The Tasha Tudor Cookbook
- Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating
- The Oxford Companion to Food
- Themed books such as ethnic/regional cooking focused on an area
that is special to the recipient.
- The Making of a Chef
- The Soul of a Chef
- How to Crack an Egg from the editors of Fine Cooking
Tips
- If you have used the cookbook yourself and have some favorite
recipes, be sure to add a note about the recipes and perhaps tips or
alterations that you make to it.
- Be sure to sign and date the book so the recipient can remember
you years from now.
- If you give a book with some tough to get ingredients, (i.e. a
Thai cookbook) why not include some of those tough to get items as
part of the gift?)
Magazines for the Cook
Our Recommendations
- Eating Well (It's local and one of our favorites!)
- Cook's Illustrated (Another magazine with local ties -
Christopher Kimball lives in and grew up in Vermont!)
- Fine Cooking
Tips
- Beware that once you give a subscription, you might be sent
renewal requests from the publisher in future years - could be
awkward if you don't wish to give the magazine in subsequent years.
Videos/DVD's
Our favorite movies about food
- Big Night
- Like Water for Chocolate
- Chocolat
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Eat Drink, Man Woman
Others
Kitchen Tools/Ingredients
- Microplane graters
- A good pepper mill
- A stick (hand) blender
- Oxo manual juicer
- A good paring knife
- The last peeler you will every need
- Hand knife sharpener
- Cookbook holder
- Silpat baking mat
- Berry Bowls
- Really good balsamic vinegar
- White truffle oil
- Really good olive oil
- Ingredients in a tube (Garlic, basil, anchovy paste, tomato
paste, hot pepper paste)
Tips
- Try to make a theme out of the gift. For example, if you
give a pepper mill, also include a sampling of high quality
peppercorns. If you give a silpat baking mat, also include a
potholder.
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