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15 Luxury Food Gifts That Will Make Anyone Feel Like a Celebrity Chef

Stock up for yourself or anyone who spends a little (or a lot) of time watching The Great British Baking Show and channeling their inner Martha Stewart.

By Karla Walsh

You need not have your own cooking show to enjoy hosting a dinner party or dining in style. The right gear and ingredients make it easier to do just that. However, the array of options in the wide world of food gifts can feel as overwhelming as choosing what to order from the menu at your favorite restaurant. (One of each, please!)

With that in mind, we combed through all of the best food gift ideas and hand-picked the items that we would be delighted to receive. We vow that there’s something in this luxury food gift guide to please your co-worker, neighbor, best friend or plus one, whether they’re big into beef, adore vegging out, collect wine or can’t start the day without coffee. Treat them—or yourself—to one of these very worthy splurges. Because unlike another tie, pair of socks or mass-made product, these are unique gifts you or they will actually put to good use. The bow on top? Many of these food gifts do good by supporting fantastic causes, too.

Here, the best food gift ideas for Christmas, birthdays and beyond.

Compartes Ultimate 24 Chocolate Bar Gift Collection

Compartes Ultimate 24 Chocolate Bar Gift Collection
$250 at compartes.com

With packaging pretty enough to display as art, this chic selection of two dozen gourmet bars is perfect for the chocolate lovers in your life. This is a mix of the most popular and a few limited-edition bars, all of which are made by hand by Compartes chocolatiers in Los Angeles.

The 24-piece set (which comes in a keepsake black gift box—just add a bow!) features sweet treats stuffed with real donuts, brownies and Lucky Charms cereal, as well as bars inspired by rocky road ice cream, campfire s’mores and rosé wine.

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Burlap & Barrel Chef’s Collection Spices

Burlap & Barrel Chef’s Collection Spices

For your favorite spice girls (or cooks of any gender), consider this six-pack of bestselling global spices. Including Cobanero Chili Flakes, Wild Mountain Cumin, Ground Black Lime, Sun-Dried Tomato Powder, Cloud Forest Cardamom and Euphrates Mint, these are all ideal to inspire curious cooks.

Each comes with a label describing the history and location where each spice was grown. Burlap & Barrel prides itself on its transparent and direct supply chain that involves long-term relationships with sustainable farmers who are paid fair wages.

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Caviar Russe Essential Collection for 1 to 2

Caviar Russe Essential Collection for 1 to 2

To top potato chips at happy hour, blini at brunch, an omelet at breakfast or simply a spoon any time, consider caviar. This kit includes a 50-gram tin of your choice of seven kinds of caviar as well as homemade crepe blinis, crème fraîche and serving utensils all tucked inside an insulated gift bag that just so happens to be perfect for picnics or toting to a dinner party.

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Eleven Madison Park Granola Sampler Box

Eleven Madison Park Granola Sampler Box

Those who have been lucky enough to dine at this hospitality-forward, three-Michelin-starred restaurant are already well acquainted with their signature granola. For more than a decade, each guest has been gifted a small jar before they depart as a way to experience even more of the magic at home. Score the recipe straight from chef Daniel Humm here to recreate en masse, or treat a loved one or yourself to a three-flavor variety pack directly from the talented restaurant team via Goldbelly.

The crunchy, chewy blends of warmly-spiced oats in Apple Cranberry, Cranberry Hazelnut and Cherry Pistachio flavors sound like delightful ways to start the day!

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Run Amok Maple Sugarmaker’s Collection: Small Maple Syrup Gift Box

Run Amok Maple Sugarmaker’s Collection: Small Maple Syrup Gift Box

To keep the brunch vibes going—or to amp up baked goods and cocktails—perk up the pantry with a four-pack of this pure maple syrup brand’s most popular flavors. Each is barrel-aged and flavored with cinnamon and vanilla, Makrut lime leaf, bourbon, and smoky qualities.

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Lettuce Grow Farmstand

Lettuce Grow Farmstand

Whether they have the richest green thumb or swear they can’t garden, the recipient will be able to grow a bounty of fresh vegetables, herbs and edible flowers with ease once they set up their Farmstand.

Thanks to the hydroponic system, it’s self-watering, and with the LED Glow Ring add-on, the seeds will sprout and thrive in even the darkest corners of a home. This 12- to 36-plant system is the ultimate way to give your garnish game a glow up or step up any salad.

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Salt & Straw Ice Cream 6-Month Pint Club

Salt & Straw Ice Cream 6-Month Pint Club

For that loved one who swoons over spooning with something sweet after dinner as often as possible, seek out an ice cream subscription like this one from Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw. The brand focuses on small-batch and chef-driven flavors like strawberry honey balsamic with black pepper and pear-blue cheese. Lucky members of this club get doorstep deliveries of five-pint packs each month.

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Sunday Night Foods Founder's Reserve 5-Jar Gift Pack

Sunday Night Foods Founder's Reserve 5-Jar Gift Pack

For a next-level splurge, sign them up for that pint pack then share these premium sauces as a preview of what’s to come—and something that they can pop open with each month’s shipment. These award-winning dessert sauces are velvety and ready to drizzle—or transform into recipes like chocolate-peanut butter pie, chocolate bread pudding or chocolate toffee shortbread bars.

The five-jar pack includes one jar each of classic dark and decadent, dark chocolate-sea salt, dark chocolate-orange, dark chocolate-peppermint and sweet chocolate sauce.

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Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Cares Supporting Camp One Step Fight Against Childhood Cancer

Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Cares Supporting Camp One Step Fight Against Childhood Cancer

This party pack has enough blue, gouda, truffle and pimento cheese (as well as dried fruit, chocolate, nuts, cured meats, crackers and other charcuterie board fixings) for about 8 to 10 people. As you dig in, you’ll be doing good: 30% of each sale goes to support Camp One Step, a nonprofit organization focused on fighting childhood cancer.

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REP Provisions The Butcher's Box

REP Provisions The Butcher's Box

Where’s the beef? It's apparently inside this big gift box, which comes with several steaks and 5 pounds of ground beef. Grillers and indoor gourmands alike will adore making burgers, steakhouse-style feasts, stir-fries, stews and more from the filets, New York Strips, ribeyes, sirloin steaks and ground beef.

REP Provisions specializes in regenerative meats that are free from harmful chemicals, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics, and they also farm in a way that gives back to the soil and ecosystem from which they farm.

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Ram's Gate Estate Collection

Ram's Gate Estate Collection

This chardonnay and pinot noir duo is incredible to drink now—they earned 93 and 95 points from wine reviewers, respectively—yet with some legit aging potential, this gift box offers a taste of California wine country. It’s perfect to hold a vino fan over until they can visit Sonoma or Napa in person.

The grapes are grown organically in 28 acres situated between Sonoma Valley, the Sonoma coast and Carneros. Rather than trying to force each year’s wine to taste exactly like the last, the winemakers at Ram’s Gate aim to create the best vintage and most honest reflection of every grape they grow that year, with its unique weather patterns and conditions. It’s like a time capsule for 2019, in a way!

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BLK & BOLD Rise & Grind Coffee Subscription

BLK & BOLD Rise & Grind Coffee Subscription

Surveys suggest that a whopping 7 in 10 Americans drink coffee every week. If you, your office best friend or your Secret Santa name draw do too, treat them to an automatically-refilling supply of beans.

This 100% certified Fair Trade coffee is a crowd-pleasing medium roast with nutty, toffee and lemon flavors. Each bag makes 24, 6-ounce cups, so you can time the delivery accordingly based on how much they tend to sip. Their buzz gives back; 5 percent of all profits go to fund initiatives for traditionally underserved youth.

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Martha’s Favorite Pastry Assortment

Martha’s Favorite Pastry Assortment

The entertaining ace has already shared her three favorite cocktail recipes with us, and now, she’s shipping her best pastries nationwide. Delivered frozen and oven-ready, any kitchen will smell like Martha Stewart’s signature buttery croissants, apricot danishes, and kouign-amanns were something the recipient made from scratch. It will be our little secret.

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Smoked Salt & Rosemary Marinated Goat Cheese, 6 Pack

Smoked Salt & Rosemary Marinated Goat Cheese, 6 Pack
Now 15% Off

Unsure of what to bring to the host who seems to have everything? This marinated goat cheese is a brilliant option. They can break into the 4-ounce jars one at a time, or add them to a snack platter together during their next gourmet night in. Smoked salt and rosemary, herbes de Provence, dill pollen-garlic, urfa chili-lemon and Italian black truffle infuse each bite with loads of flavor. All of the flavors are ideal for spreading on crackers, swiping on bagels or elevating your weeknight pasta.

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Shop All Kosterina Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting Set

Kosterina Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar Tasting Set

Another incredible host gift option? Olive oil or vinegar. This Greek-grown tasting set features both in their original glory, as well as fig balsamic, dark chocolate balsamic, garlic olive oil and Greek herb and lemon olive oil. They’re perfect to elevate everything from cheese boards to salad dressings to ice cream. (You haven’t lived until you’ve topped vanilla gelato with olive oil and flaky sea salt!)

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