Sushi Magnets from Portland-based artist sushi ornaments:
Sushi Box comes with 4 Sushi Magnets: Ikura (salmon roe), Special Roll, Ebi (shrimp roll) and Tamago (egg).
Hand made Sushi Magnets made from yarn, felt, and beads.
Each box comes with soy sauce, wasabi, and green grass.Use each sushi magnet individually .. or stick the whole box on the fridge and have a secret place to store notes!
Great gift for the fridge or any one who loves sushi!
Etsy, $22
Olives by La Novia Del Sol (via AJ Gourmet Foods) are not your typical jarred olives.
They render fancy olive-bar olives (even Mario Batali restaurant olives) rather… uninspiring.
Really, how can you beat Feta-Stuffed Green Spanish Olives?
Perhaps with Orange-Stuffed Olives?
Strike that, my favorite is the unabashedly-picante Habanero Pepper-Stuffed Olives.
Olive lovers rejoice!
AJ Gourmet Foods, $5.99 per jar (discounts for larger quantities)
Those picturing plastic-wrapped Kraft Singles must try Murray’s Go Local Cheese Sampler Gift Box.
Box includes: Luscious Green Hill from Sweet Grass Dairy in Georgia Earthy Clothbound Cheddar from Cabot Creamery in Vermont Herbaceous Hoja Santa from The Mozzarella Co. in Texas Supple Tomme de Brebis from Hope Farm in Vermont Crunchy-sweet Stravecchio from Sartori Cheese Co. in Wisconsin Coarse, grainy Z Crackers from the Savory Pie Co. in New JerseyNote: These American Cheeses do get moldy if left in your fridge for months. Which is actually rather comforting.
Murray’s Cheese, $75 (Sale for 10% off, Sourcecode 28EB1201, through 12/7/08- two more days only!)
Pizza Party Board Game was a delightfully simple game that remained magical throughout my single-digit childhood.
The mushrooms always irked me, though, and now I see I was justified.
Surprise your favorite child of the 1980s with Pizza Party. Nostalgia is what the holidays are all about, right?
Board Game Geek, $12 and up
Smorgasbite is going to celebrate Christmas for the next 25 days, profiling a wide variety of fun, food-related gifts.
What better way to start than with a fresh twist on an advent calendar? It counts down to not only Santa’s arrival but also the perfection of your recipe for cookies to be left next to the fireplace. Don’t worry, I’ll post some recipes.
Christmas Countdown by Royse City, Texas-based artist EvenlySPACED on Etsy.
With Halloween behind us it is apparently time to think about holiday gifts.
Normally this would make me gag, but in the case of wine gift baskets–bring on Christmakwanzakah.
Bottlerocket is a fun wine store on West 19th Street (which I found out about via some free wine tastings).
In the store, wines are arranged according to what types of foods they’d go well with: “take out,” “seafood,” “treats,” etc.
Another perk of this store is its gift baskets, ahem, pails, which you can custom-fill with various wines, champagnes, wine/food-themed books and magazines, and wine accessories… whatever would delight or inspire. They do the wrapping and the shipping. You don’t have to be in NYC to give or to receive one of these pails.
Couldn’t December come a little faster? Just kidding.