Eating is not just essential to our survival but one of the most pleasurable, joyful, and intimate events of our everyday lives. No one celebrates the joy of preparing meals, trying new foods, and eating as a foodie does.
Show your foodie friend or relative some love with a gift that either whets their appetite or satiates it. Our list of the best gifts for foodies is eclectic, delectable, and sure to be a hit with that special foodie in your life.
Modern Comfort Food Cookbook
Any foodie will be familiar with the Food Network star Ina Garten, better known as the Barefoot Contessa. She has come out with countless recipes that put a modern twist on classic comfort foods and cocktails.
Her book Modern Comfort Food contains over 85 recipes that are sure to become staples in any foodie’s meal and dinner party repertoire.
Food Coma & Party Recovery Supplement
Foodies love luxuriating over a scrumptious multi-course meal with plenty of fancy cocktails and bottles of wine. With such an abundance of food, overindulgence is often the result, and while the food and drink hangover may be worth it to them, it still isn’t very fun.
These holistic and naturopathic supplements help you recover from a night of gluttonous abandon by stimulating your liver to detox. It also contains herbs like mint and fenugreek that help with nausea which is often a byproduct of indigestion.
Funny Kitchen Tea Towels
This cute set of four multi-purpose kitchen towels is the perfect gift for your foodie’s kitchen. Each towel has a silly saying or play-on-words using the same vegetable printed on the towel.
For example, “Holy Guacamole” is printed underneath the image of an avocado half.
Towels always come in handy in the kitchen, and these towels won’t just clean but act as an endearing adornment.
Foodie Fight Trivia Board Game
This fun and interactive trivia game will test the knowledge of even the most pretentious foodie while entertaining and educating everyone else on quirky and fascinating food facts.
Foodie Dice
No matter how much we love food, sometimes we get bored with the same meal rotation. This foodie dice set allows you to switch things up a bit by letting chance decide how and what you will prepare for the day.
It comes with five primary food dies, and two seasonal food die. You just have to roll the dice to uncover and explore a new meal plan.
Infused Sea Salt Sampler
Salt is the most basic and essential seasoning for food. This infused sea salt sampler uses the highest quality Himalayan sea salt infused with unique, authentic, and tasty herbs and natural flavors.
Infused Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil Set
These deliciously rich finishing oils will add a wonderful flavor to your salad, pasta, or bread. A small drizzle is all it takes to impart vibrant flavors of red pepper, rosemary, basil, or garlic to the dish.
My Recipe Journal
Help your favorite foodie gather and organize their favorite recipes with this beautiful soft-back recipe journal. It has 100 pages for a foodie to record recipes, meal plans, or other food-inspired ideas.
The Serious Foodie Spice Rub Pack
True to its name, this spice rub pack will impress any foodie with its unique mix of flavors that impart distinct flavors to meats and fish of all kinds.
Every rub has a perfect blend of sweet, spicy, tangy, and savory spices that are sure to excite any foodie’s palate and make them the bar-b-q hero of the night.
RAPPICA Grill Oven Gloves
These professional-grade grill gloves cover the entire forearm up to the elbows with a mix of neoprene rubber over a double-layer of cotton, ensuring comfort and protection from the hottest grills and ovens.
ANOVA Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker
This precision cooker is the ultimate tool to cook food of all kinds to perfection. This high-tech apparatus seals food items in a bag that you submerge in heated water to cook anything you want perfectly.
There is even an app on your smartphone that controls the whole process and provides instructions and explanations on the Sous Vide cooking mechanism.
Urban Accents Seasoning Spice Gift Set
This spice set comes with meat, fish, and vegetable spice rubs and mixes along with directions on how to apply them. Additionally, each spice mix comes with suggestions on cooking techniques for different vegetables, meats, and fish to showcase their flavors.
INFANZIA BBQ Gloves and Meat Claws Combo
These colorful knitted grilling gloves use specially designed heat-resistant yarns for the ultimate protection against hot grills and ovens.
These gloves also come with a set of meat shredding claws that allow grillers to steady meat with one hand and shred it with another. They are also made with heat-resistant plastics so that you can handle them with your bare hands for convenience and precision.
Victoria Cast Iron Grill Press
This heavy-duty cast iron grill press is the perfect weight to facilitate heat induction while also helping impart beautiful grill marks on your meat, bread, or vegetables.
Rotary Hero Giant Food Stool
This stool is in the shape of a giant corn cob with a big old bite taken out of it. There are also options for a burger, donut, or melted ice cream cone stools, so you can choose your foodie’s favorite comfort food to accessorize their bedroom, kitchen, or office.
Clover Leather Recipe Box
This elegant recipe organizer makes it easy to categorize your recipes as mains, sides, veggies, and desserts, so it is easier to find them and peruse your repertoire when you need some meal inspiration.
It comes with 50 recipe cards for each categorized section, with plenty of room to add more recipe cards should you need them.
Appoline Trio of Knives
This set of three knives with beautiful floral patterns on the blade and beechwood handles are a lovely gift for foodies to use and showcase as serving instruments.
Funny Food Plastic-Free Produce Bags
Help out the environment by cutting down on plastic bags with these reusable 100% cotton produce sacks. They even have silly play-on-words and images of anthropomorphized smiling veggies.
Homemade Mushroom Ravioli Kit
This gift will help foodies throw a delicious and authentic Italian dinner feast. They can follow the user-friendly instructions, combining pre-measured ingredients to create porcini mushroom stuffed ravioli with truffle oil.
Taste of Greece Pantry Box
Give your favorite foodie the gift of Mediterranean gastronomical treasures with this goodie box. It has everything to infuse dishes with authentic Greek flavors, including spice mixes, olive oils, organic herbs and seeds, and roasted red peppers.
Himalayan Salt BBQ Plank
Himalayan salt is a luxury in and of itself, but now you can give this beautifully pink salt cube as the ultimate grilling accessory.
Foodies simply place this cube on their grill to heat it, place vegetables or meats on top of it, and marvel at how perfectly cooked and seasoned they become. The best part is that they don’t have to clean or scrub the plank as salt is naturally antibacterial and self-cleaning.
Premium Charcuterie Board and Cutlery Set
This is the swiss army knife of charcuterie boards! It is a wood board that opens up into a multi-compartmentalized cabinet and tray that houses all types of foods and supplies you with the cutting and serving utensils necessary to enjoy them.
It comes with ceramic bowls and plates, cheese knives, spatulas, forks and has three flat surfaces for the ultimate spread. All of these items are self-contained and fit neatly together in stacked drawers for easy storage.
Mini Waffle Maker
This cute personal-sized mini waffle maker makes delicious bite-sized waffles. It is made with non-stick materials and has a plastic outer layer with floral prints, making it a great appliance to leave out on your counter.
Waffles are delicious and fun to make, whether for a slumber party or a party of one.
Mini Refrigerator
This sleek black mini fridge is the best gift for a college dorm room, office, or man cave. It has a retro 1950’s icebox look that is exceedingly cool, figuratively and literally!
It has a door basket for condiments and a freezer tray, along with ample space for beverages and snacks.
Breakfast Bite Maker
Have you ever heard of mug cakes or mug omelets? Well, your foodie friend probably has! This griddle-like appliance comes with four mugs that you can place eggs and raw veggies or raw cake or bread dough in and then heat them to create a bite-sized sampler plate.
Foodies can customize breakfast omelets, placing different mixes of vegetables and meats in each mug for an omelet sampler, or fill each mug with a batter base and different dried fruit and nuts for a mini muffin sampler. The possibilities are endless!