65+ Fun Gifts for Foodies in 2023

I’ve had this Dutch oven for years, and it is just as beautiful as it was when we first bought it. And it’s a good thing, too—we use it so often, it pretty much lives on our stove and is visible all the time.

This baby holds over a quart of tea or coffee, and it stays hot for hours, thanks to the double-wall insulation. Plus, because it’s stainless steel, it’s never going to shatter on you!

The unique shape and beautiful wooden handle is what initially sold me on this saucepan, but the feature that really sealed the deal? The lid serves double-duty as a trivet!

If I was stuck in the middle of nowhere and could only have two cooking tools, I’d choose a good knife and a cast iron skillet. They hold up for literally decades, retain heat really well, and are great for cooking nearly everything!

This may be the most-used small appliance in our kitchen. We love that it is stainless steel inside and out, it heats up quickly, and it can be adjusted to several different temperatures.

Everyone fawns over the KitchenAid stand mixers, and we do love ours, but this hand mixer is actually our go-to. It’s just so much more convenient than hauling the stand mixer to the counter. Plus, it takes up less space, and it works incredibly well.

There are so many uses for an immersion blender—it makes pureeing soups a breeze, is the best tool for making your own mayo, and gets you smooth sauces and dressings in a snap.

Most folks know that Instant Pots are great gifts for foodies, but if your favorite foodie already has one, make sure they can make the most of it with this must-have accessory kit. These accessories make the Instant Pot SO much more versatile.

Are these not the most beautiful utensils you’ve ever seen? Made of teak and finished with olive oil, these wooden spoons will get nonstop use in your kitchen.

Freezing fresh herbs in the summer is so much cheaper than buying the little packs of herbs in the winter! While you can find herb freezing trays in metal, plastic, or silicone styles, I personally prefer the silicone—it makes it so easy to pop out the cubes once they are frozen!

We ADORE these mixing bowls. They are sturdy, not too heavy, and nest so nicely that they don’t take up a ton of space in the cabinet. Plus, they come in every size you could possibly need!

A good cheese board is the perfect combination of “took no time to put together” and “looks impressive and like you worked really hard at it.” This slate cheese board platter is our favorite starting point.

These bamboo handled cheese knives are great for serve-yourself cheese boards. Pair these with the slate platter above (and maybe even some fancy cheeses!) for a cheesy-themed gift, or give them on their own.

This apron has held up to all my cooking messes (and there have been lots). It is thick, sturdy, and cute.

For the folks who cook in bulk or do a lot of canning, a heavy duty chopper can be such a time saver. We love this one for its high quality, multiple blade options, and ability to go through the dishwasher.

A little ceramic colander filled with already-washed fruit is a welcome sight when you open the refrigerator.

Imagine if Costco and Whole Foods had a baby, and all that gloriousness was sold online for discounted prices. That’s Thrive Market! Memberships to Thrive are great gifts for all the foodies in your family.

We’ve been loyal ButcherBox subscribers for years, and it’s a wonderful gift for the grill master or meat lover in your life.

We’ve never met a spice or spice blend from Penzey’s that we didn’t like. Any of the gift boxes from their extensive line would be a great choice.

Essie Bartels mixed together unique ingredients and traditional West African cooking methods to create her four flavorful, complex, spicy sauces and rubs. Get the big set as its own gift, or use the Mini Spice Essentials set as a stocking stuffer.

We love everything that Siete makes, but their hot sauce is a really top notch stocking stuffer.

These pantry shortcuts are like nothing we’ve tried before. They combine all the spices, aromatics, and sauces you need for a specific Asian dish, so all you need to add are the veggies and/or meat. Gift the whole bundle to a busy home cook, or drop a few in each stocking.

Diaspora Co. is working to decolonize the spice industry while getting fresh, flavorful spices right to your door. Once you’ve tried their spices, you’ll never want to go back to the grocery store version.

We all have a bacon aficionado in our lives, and this gift box is just the perfect gift for them. It’s packed with four different small-batch, specialty bacons to try.

This spicy ketchup is incredibly addictive. It’s the best with a giant pile of fries.

These pepper flakes are a great stocking stuffer for the person who loves a little heat! These are the BEST sprinkled on some pizza.

While the ginger root honey was the solid favorite, we really loved every honey we tried from the small, Black-owned company, Zach&Zoë.

Pancakes just got a major upgrade! This small batch maple syrup producer works with regional spiritmakers to age their syrup in spent bourbon, brandy, and rum barrels. The resulting flavor is absolutely incredible. We recommend the Starlight Applejack Maple Syrup (Starlight is a distillery local to us here at Wholefully)!

This box is for the breakfast-lover on your list. These goodies from Indigenous-owned companies are packed full of amazing flavor.

If you’ve never used a burger marinade, you (and your patties) are seriously missing out. This nine-spice marinade and its accompanying burger sauce will improve your burgers from the inside out.

Cocktail fans will love this sweet, citrusy homemade limoncello. There are free printable labels included!

Jerky? Made out of mushrooms? YUP! This vegan jerky tastes like the real thing (maybe even better)!

These are the only microbrewed soy sauces in all of the United States! These are traditionally fermented using ingredients produced just miles from the brewery.

Give the gift of easy baking with this cookie mix in a jar. The resulting cookies are deliciously chewy and tender.

This one’s for the spice lovers! Make your own flavorful hot sauce as mild or as hot as you want with our homemade hot sauce recipe. Plus, we include free printable labels to make gift wrapping super simple.

Bourbon Barrel foods is a local-to-us company, and we love everything they make. This combo of their condiments, spices, and salts is a great way to make your favorite foodie’s chili recipe cook-off ready.

This might be our favorite product on the entire list. Each month, you get a box of curated snacks from a country around the world. It’s a super fun way to explore geography and culture around the world—and you get some tasty treats in the meantime. This would be a great gift for a family with young kids! Bonus: This link gets you $5 off your first order.

In a season when we can feel overloaded by sweets, a savory gift can be a nice change of pace. These soup mixes are both affordable and delicious.

Every foodie needs a microplane, and this is our favorite we’ve ever used. It works beautifully to zest citrus fruit, shred Parmesan, or grate nutmeg. It makes a wonderful stocking stuffer!

You might think I included these just to make people look silly, but these onion goggles really do help cut back on the tears while chopping onions! The only downside is that they don’t fit over glasses, so keep that in mind.

Beyond being useful for serving up condiments, we love to use these for little taste tests as we’re cooking so that we can get the seasoning just right.

I honestly use these whisks almost daily. The silicone means I can use them without worrying about scratching my cookware, and the tines are smooth enough that food doesn’t get stuck in the head of the whisk.

Honestly, does it get any cuter than these sweet earrings? Gift this one to the canners in your life!

This handy little gadget has made garlic chopping such a breeze in the Wholefully test kitchen! Just drop some cloves in, close it up, pull the string, and you have perfectly minced garlic. This makes a great stocking stuffer!

Need something to round out a stocking? Try one of these magnets, available in four colors!

Fermentation is the current trendy foodie hobby, and if you are new to it, it can be a bit overwhelming. No worries! These DIY kits give you everything you need to get started.

If you aren’t growing your own sprouts already, you definitely should—they are a super affordable and healthy way to grow your own veggies year-round. This jar makes the process simple.

No garden? No problem! Your loved one can grow microgreens at home on their own countertop. This is perfect for the plant lover, health nut, or foodie!

These little kits make it so easy to grow your own mushrooms at home. It’s a fun winter gardening project for kids or grown-ups!

This was easily our favorite cookbook of 2020 (and we read A LOT of cookbooks). Toni Tipton-Martin does a beautiful job of weaving African American food history with modern-day takes on traditional foods from Black culture. The photography is wonderful and the writing is rich, interesting, and enlightening. This is a cookbook you can both cook from and enjoy reading by the fire.

Author Uyen Luu teaches Vietnamese cooking techniques and recipes, ranging from weekday meals, soups, and salads, to more time-consuming and complex dishes for special occasions. We love this cookbook’s focus on using what you already have or what ingredients are available locally so that everyone can try their hand at cooking Vietnamese cuisine.

We’ve never met an America’s Test Kitchen cookbook that isn’t remarkable, and this one is no different. This tome on Mediterranean cooking has hundreds of recipes from the entire region to try. We’ve cooked dozens of dishes from this book and have been thrilled with the results every time!

Intimidated by sourdough? Don’t be, thanks to this cookbook. It’s packed with tips for getting started, unique recipes, and a relaxed attitude to make sourdough baking approachable.

This book merges classic Jewish food traditions with modern twists and inspiration from other cultures to bring a fresh look on Jewish food. This book is full of beautiful photos, sassy and heartfelt anecdotes, and easy-to-follow recipes. We loved this cookbook! 

If you’ve ever stumbled upon a treasure trove of wild mushrooms or native berries only to get them home without a clue what to do with them, this book is for you! It has practical, delicious recipes featuring commonly foraged foods, plus lots of substitution options if you don’t have all the listed foraged ingredients.

Michelle Zauner, of the band Japanese Breakfast, recounts the loss of her mother and the role that food played in helping her cope with her mother’s illness and later loss. While it isn’t necessarily a cheery book, it is honest, intimate, and well-written.

This is a cookbook that you’re going to be cooking out of every week. Every recipe we’ve tried has been incredibly flavorful while also being simple and approachable to make.

We are loving this cookbook for breathing new life into our vegetable recipes. For each vegetable, there are 2-3 main methods for preparing the produce, plus multiple variations per method. So if you want to make cauliflower puree but don’t have the pork cutlet to go with it, you can try the browned butter and orange zest version with salmon, or the cheesy version with chard and roasted tomato. Gift this one to the cook who loves to cook seasonally, and wants some new ideas for using their produce.

If you’re passionate about local food (or just curious), this book is a must-have on your bookshelf! The author embarked on a challenge to only eat food produced within 200 miles of her home—and these recipes are the results.

This book is marketed as the “only grain and legume cookbook you need,” and while we could never just buy one cookbook, we get where they are coming from! This cookbook has over 125 recipes with 300 variations featuring 29 different grains and legumes. This book, combined with the author’s previous book, Ruffage (above), would make a great starting point for any new cook’s collection.

Many folks are trying to eat less meat to help with our climate change crisis, but for a lot of us, it just isn’t sustainable to go fully plant-based. This cookbook gives tons of great plant-centric recipes without the need to completely abandon meat or animal products. The photos are beautiful and the recipes are top-notch!

This book is categorized into chapters organized by grain—making it a breeze to find recipe inspiration for whatever grain you find at the farmers’ market or on sale at your local store. This cookbook is full of both savory and sweet dishes for the most common grains (hello, rice and wheat) and grains that you might not be as familiar with (like millet and buckwheat).

Stanley Tucci’s memoir explores the ways in which food is so often tied to our most notable memories. It would be a great gift for both fans of the actor and readers who enjoy food memoirs.

Swap out single-use zip-top plastic bags for these reusable ones. They make a great stocking stuffer!

Ditch the plastic wrap in favor of these reusable sheets of beeswax-coated cotton. They fold and bend to fit your sandwiches, avocado halves, snacks, or leftovers, and seal tight to themselves.

Another way to ditch the plastic wrap is to opt for these fabric bowl covers for stashing leftovers, batters, or salads in the fridge. These come in a set of two different stretchy sizes, so they will fit most mixing bowls.