What's your favorite food gift to receive?
When you are on the receiving end, what food gifts do you like the best? Was it homemade by a friend? Ordered & sent from an online source by a family member? I love, love to be given homemade yeast breads & rolls. What food & beverage gifts are your favorites?
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My favorite used to be when my Egyptian friend's mother would make me an enormous tray of baklava every time she knew I was coming over. And to this day, I've never eaten any baklava that's as good as hers was.
Baklava is one of those incredibly labor-intensive things that I've never tried to do myself (also, I'm Texan, and I just don't think I'm intrinsically able to produce good Mediterrnean food somtimes...), so I was always very appreciative of her delicious gifts. Sadly, they moved back to Egypt so no more homemade baklava for this girl.
sheeats at 8:13PM on 12/06/07
Meduri Dried Fruit!
Luckily my sister works in a place that sells it!
srhcb at 8:18PM on 12/06/07
one of my friends gave me a big box of wonderful things from penzey's for my birthday. nothing could have pleased me more -- except maybe a big box of teuscher's truffles.
here's my least favorite: my old boyfriend's sister, when we met for the first time on christmas, told me that her dad had raved about my cooking. she wanted to give me a food related gift, so she gave me a basket full of cookie and cake mixes.
cybercita at 11:25PM on 12/06/07
I think my answer is a simple ... YES!
LoCo at 11:25PM on 12/06/07
Any sort of quality caviar works for me.
When I used to drink booze was always welcome.
Stiv61 at 5:36AM on 12/07/07
Gift certificates to Williams Sonoma or other gourmet outfit where I get to choose what I actually need (OK, want). I think it's much more considerate of someone to give a gift certificate vs. something I can't (or won't) use.
therealchiffonade at 6:36AM on 12/07/07
Foods that I love that are a pain in the butt to get. Boxes and boxes of Botan Rice Candy. Anything ume flavored, especially dried plums.
I am currently in the throes of a brand new infatuation with my Mr. Bento and would adore getting groovy bento box accessories (tiny squeeze bottles, those awesome baby plastic cups, etc.)
rockykay at 7:31AM on 12/07/07
Fudge!
SSMom at 8:50AM on 12/07/07
I think I prefer a gift certificate to a favorite restaurant to a box of chocolates or nuts or something. That, or you can buy my groceries for a week!
Hillary
Chew on That
Chew on That at 11:48AM on 12/07/07
rockykay,
botan ame!!!! which do you like best, the actual candy or the rice paper?
cybercita at 12:04PM on 12/07/07
Last Christmas, my family gave me iGourmet's "Cheeses of the Month" for six months. That was just ideal. And friends gave me "real" truffle oils, white and black (not "truffle-flavored"), pistachios, and every year my mother sends Harry and David's amazing pears.
Tom Steele at 2:08PM on 12/07/07
Yet another great question, JEP!
When John and I first married, my mother-in-law gave me a hefty gift certificate to Williams-Sonoma, where I bought my first-ever all-clad saucepan. It's still my favorite.
My mother continues to buy me the best cookbooks.
hereandthe at 2:38PM on 12/07/07
Syrian cookies - Pistachio or Pine Nut Nightingale's Nests, Pine Nut Assabe, Ghraibeh (pistachio shortbread cookies) and Baraz'e (sesame cookies). When we get a box from our friends, I always fight a strong desire to grab the box and run fast and far away so that I could eat them all by myself. Instead, of course, I pretend to be civilised, share the box with 3 other people and eat 1-2 cookies at a time...[sigh].
brooke29 at 2:59PM on 12/07/07
Hey cybercita - They go together. The candy alone with out the rice paper doesn't have that crack to it when you bite down, and the paper itself is kinda blah without the candy. I got a 1lb bag of it from Hawaii last year, but can't for the life of me remember from where. I must go research.
rockykay at 3:46PM on 12/07/07
Texas ruby red grapefruit & DeBrand chocolate truffles are two more that are always welcome :)
JEP at 5:24AM on 12/08/07
Any kind of good cheese, coffee beans, or chocolate; also, my family's cardamom braid.
dettling05 at 1:50PM on 12/10/07
I was getting a very nice mixed-nut assoertment for a few years, then it suddenly stopped and I was very disappointed. I really looked forward to that assortment to arrive by mail around the holidays.
jonfoxx at 2:08PM on 12/10/07
My mom usually gives me a wholefoods gift card and I always welcome it.
I have family in Hawaii and they used to always send a case of super ripe pineapples, I still think of that everytime I see one.Those mixed fruit boxes are sort of cheesy but I do appreciate them.
coolname at 3:27PM on 12/10/07
My sister sends Harry & David pears...so juicy and full flavored. We also love any kind of cheese...NOT cheese spreads.
elaine nan at 4:19PM on 12/10/07
I love those cheese spread assortments from Swiss Colony. I know they're super processed and all but they always remind me of home. My dad had a couple of clients that would send one to the house every year and my sisters and I would fight over the bacon cheddar spread.
Rottenmom at 8:25AM on 12/11/07