Holiday gifts for foodies
By Carla Snuggs 

Is there a food and wine enthusiast on your Christmas gift list? Posh Beauty Blog has discovered some items that foodies will love. This holiday gift guide is especially for those who enjoy crafting and eating culinary delights, spirits and wine.

Read It & Eat's Blind Date with a Book 

A Blind Date with a Book is a fun mystery box experience focusing on everything foodie! Your box includes a mystery book (genres include Fiction, Young Adult, or Romance) all about food. You also receive a snack that supports a small-BIPOC-women-or-queen-owned-business and $3 from your purchase is donated to help fight hunger with a local non-profit in Buffalo, NY 

Your Resident Gourmet  Shimmer Sugar Cocktail Rimmer 

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year! Make the most of it and dress up your holiday cocktails with Shimmer Sugar Cocktail Rimmer.  This sparkling flavored sugar has bright notes of pomegranate, citrus and ginger-making it a wonderfully fresh compliment to your holiday drinks. Cheers! 

Flour and Herbs - Gourmet Grilling Rubs with Bourbon Barrel Pellets Box Set of 6  

This selected signature spice collection is ideal for flavoring smoked pork, ribs, brisket, and grilled chicken. You can also use it as an ingredient to create your own signature barbecue sauce or marinade! 

In the box: 

• Cowboy Seasoning - 2.5 oz 

• Burger Seasoning - 2.5 oz 

• Steak Seasoning - 3 oz 

• Jamaican Jerk Seasoning - 2 oz 

• Smoked Applewood Sea Salt Coarse - 3.5 oz 

• Savory Grill - 2.5 

The box is filled with Bourbon Pellets for Smoking 

Shop: Flourandherbs.com 

Tip ‘n Split 

Tip ‘n Split--The innovative LED magnifying tool that not only helps you read the menu, it can calculate both tips and splits for each member of your group in three seconds. Easy to use for all, keep dinner in fun mode with a gadget that takes the stress out of paying the bill – plus it keeps your smartphone away from the table! Featured on The View, The Today Show, QVC, and Fox Holiday Gift Guide 

Skinny Mixes Holiday Flavor Selection   

This holiday season, add some holiday flavoring with Skinny Mixes syrups that provide all the drink essentials someone needs from morning to night. From White Chocolate Mocha syrup for your coffee in the morning to Spiced Cranberry Margarita for your cocktail at night. Plus, there is zero guilt to drinking Skinny Mixes syrups as all mixers have 0 sugar and are low in calories with each serving. Shop:  Skinnymixes.com  

Reciple membership (annual and monthly options) 

Reciple is the first ad-free recipe platform that's equitable for small creators. Unlock unlimited access to hundreds of recipes with an affordable monthly or annual subscription. 

Lobel’s of New York- Madison Avenue- USDA Prime Beef gift box 

Lobel’s of New York has many gift box options to share the love with your closest family and friends. One of the most popular options is the Madison Avenue- USDA Prime Beef gift box. Lobel’s of New York, a sixth generation family butcher business with over 175 years of experience, is hoping to make this holiday season the most special yet for friends, family and loved ones on your gift list - both near and far.  This year as family and friends gather and celebrate, Lobel’s has world-class beef options for those planning to entertain, even Manhattan’s most discerning palates have trusted the Lobel's family to be their source for best-in-class meat. And, not to mention, good old-fashioned, personalized customer service. Lobel’s of New York wants to help provide a magical holiday season. The best part? You can order all of these drool-worthy products online. Shop: Lobels.com   

Russell Stover Joy Bites 

Russell Stover launched a new collection of no sugar added chocolate bars that are carefully crafted with Fairtrade cocoa and select non-GMO and organic ingredients for deliciously joyful snacking. Russell Stover Joy Bites cater to chocolate lovers everywhere, including those who may be following a keto-friendly lifestyle. 

Poi Dog  Lavender Ponzu, Guava Katsu and Hot Chili Peppah Water 

The Lavendar Ponzu sauce is the perfect floral ponzu sauce made with lavender blossoms from Maui – use for dipping with dumplings, sushi, sashimi instead of soy sauce, transform noodles into a full meal, or use to make a tropical vinaigrette dressing. 

The Guava Katsu sauce is a tropical, umami-rich, fruity and gingery Japanese-style bbq and dipping sauce made with guava, miso, ginger, tomato and dried mushroom. Meaty, rich and deeply flavorful — but it happens to be vegan! 

Chili Peppah Water is found on most Hawai’I – poured over practically everything - rice, meats, macaroni salad, vegetables to lend a spicy, vinegary tang, and gingery kick laced with Hawaiian Sea Salt. It is made with seasonal Pennsylvania peppers so batches will change depending on when they are brewed. 
Shop: Poidogphilly.com 

Creations By Kai Universal Spice Collection 

Celebrity Chef Kai Chase’s Universal Spice Collection includes 3 all natural, gluten free and NON-GMO blends featuring “5 Spice Habanero and Ginger,” “Warm Cajun and Chicory,” and “California Citrus Salt”— perfect for fragrant stir frys, bold proteins, and zesty vegetables that are sure to inspire and delight any home chef. Chef Kai encourages you to tap into your creativity and experience all the flavors this collection has to offer. 

NOBLE Jerky™  Vegan Jerky  

NOBLE Jerky is the ultimate effortless plant-protein snack.  Every bag of NOBLE Jerky provides up to 14g of protein per serving and adheres to strict non-GMO practices that are 100% natural and meat-free. A singular and tasty product that will surely put a smile on that special person on your list!  

 The Cattleman by Good Ranchers

"This is a 100% American, Steakhouse Quality meat box that can't be beat! No other company sells this quality at this quantity for that price. Perfect gift to make someone's face and stomach smile this year!"

Shop: Goodranchers.com

Polanco Caviar Siberian Reserve

Siberian Reserve, is a high quality caviar with colors ranging from gray to brown shades. In the mouth, a fine and fresh flavor with nutty touches and a mild memory of dried fruits. It's pearl is medium in size, with a creamy, consistent and gentle texture. This caviar is native to the fluvial basins of Siberia (from the Ob river to the Kolyma river) and also found in the Baikal Lake basin. During the last 10 years this sturgeon species (acipenser baerii sturgeon) has been successfully farmed in ideal ecosystem of Uruguay's Rio Negro basin. Uruguay is worldwide recognized as a top high quality sturgeon caviar producer and exporter. Polanco Caviar emerged from the search for an exceptional caviar. This reserve Caviar is as pleasing to the eyes as to the palate, offering varied shades and subtle and slightly sweet flavor.

Kate's Real Food Oatmeal Cranberry Almond Bar   

This unforgettable taste and texture experience is anchored with the rich flavors of cranberry and oatmeal, tied together with smooth, rich almond butter. Your taste buds will leave you reaching for seconds! Shop: Katesrealfood.com 

Rachel Signer’s YOU HAD ME AT PÉT-NAT: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir

Rachel Signer’s YOU HAD ME AT PÉT-NAT: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir is the perfect gift for those curious about the world of natural wine and winemaking. In her inspiring memoir, Rachel invites readers to join as she moves to Paris with a dream to open a wine bar and travels the world’s oldest winegrowing regions in the Republic of Georgia, Slovenia, Sardinia and more. Along the way, she finds love, learns about wine and makes it herself, transforming from would-be novelist waitressing in Brooklyn into a globetrotting magazine publisher, wine writer, and successful natural winemaker. Best enjoyed with a glass of wine! Shop: Bookshop.org

The Family Immunity Cookbook: 101 Easy Recipes to Boost Health 

All of us want to keep our families safe and healthy. We also want to eat delicious and satisfying food. The Family Immunity Cookbook includes 25 of the top immune-boosting foods, incorporated into 101 delicious recipes. These are ingredients that provide immune-essential nutrients like vitamin C, vitamin D, zinc, selenium, iron, and protein to keep your body's defenses in tip-top shape, or they are foods that help decrease inflammation and boost antioxidant activity such as berries, fatty fish or avocados which help your body defend itself from illness and can also promote healing. 

But that sounds complicated. How do we build healthy immune systems anyway? Simple. Bestselling cookbook author and nutritionist Toby Amidor is skilled at making tricky topics fun and easy to understand -- she's done the work for you. She expertly describes the nutritional benefits of foods and then weaves them into recipes the whole family will enjoy. It tastes so good you won't even know it's good for you! 

Armed with Toby's tips and tricks, you can minimize that stress associated with cooking. These include meal prepping, preparing freezer-friendly foods to keep your kitchen stocked with healthy meals, cooking one pot meals to minimize dishes, and finding recipes that can be prepared and cooked in 30 minutes or less. Shop: Amazon.com 

Pamela’s Brownies Custom Holiday Brownie Gift Box 

A box of 6 or 12 homemade, deep dish, award winning brownies that you can customize to your liking. Choose from fancy holiday sprinkles, chocolate candies, or nuts to adorn your brownies.  Shop: Etsy.me 

Siligrams Custom Silicone Ice Tray 

Jazz up your cocktails with a uniquely custom ice cube! Siligrams custom ice trays are made in the USA with high quality silicone, and are made to order with your unique design. Include initials, monograms, dates, names, or even a custom logo on the surface of your ice! This product makes for a uniquely personalized high qualitygift for your home bartender loved ones! Shop: Go.siligrams.com   

Liba Spirits 1643 Alpine Gin  

Liba Spirits is a nomadic distilling company founded on the same principles that have revitalized the food industry in recent years—that the raw materials you use matter, as does the way you handle them, and the best recipes often involve exceptional ingredients prepared with minimal intervention. We strive to find the best grains, fruits, botanicals, and other base materials in the world and use them in our distillation, and to do so we bring ourselves to where these items are grown, distilling them as close to the source as possible. This way, we capture a sense of the place in every bottle. Shop: Libaspirits.com 

Hooray Foods plant-based bacon    

 Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray! Hooray Foods bacon base uses tapioca starch, rice flour, and coconut oil - that’s all.  And its flavor comes from a mushroom seasoning, maple syrup, liquid smoke, and salt. It’s sold in over 250 Whole Foods Market stores, as well as smaller stores all over the United States, check out hoorayfoods.com/baconlocator to find the latest listing. 

Not only Hooray bacon is delicious, but it’s on a great mission to displace the over 70 million pigs living on U.S. farms today, and improve the health of our planet and its people in the process.  

Sweet Logic Apple Cinnamon Mug Cake Mix  

Nothing reminds you of fall quite like the scent of apple and cinnamon cooking on a stovetop! That’s why we’re sure that our new apple cinnamon flavor will be your new favorite. Embrace your inner basic and pair it with a hot tea and flannel shirt as you cozy up on the couch. All you need to enjoy this low-carb, diabetic-friendly dessert is one egg, one tablespoon of butter, and 2 minutes of your time! Shop: Eatsweetlogic.com 

Sun & Swell Foods Product Name: Energy Bites  

Made from only whole food ingredients, these delicious plant-based energy balls are perfect for any snacking occasion. Eat them as a pre-workout snack, breakfast in a pinch, while hiking in the trails or as an afternoon treat. These are the perfect gift or stocking stuffer for those healthy & foodie loved ones. Shop: Sunandswellfoods.com 

Clamato 

Clamato has teamed up with mixologist KrystleLynn Kingcade to create the ultimate Michelada recipe for any holiday get-together. KrystleLynn has been in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. The recipe for the “Dirty Cajun” Ultimate Michelada is included below.  

 “Dirty Cajun” Ultimate Michelada 

 Glassware: 8 ounce Collins glass 

Ingredients: 

• 5 ounces of Clamato Original  

• 1.5 ounces Marigny Moonshine 

• 5 Dashes of El Guapo Bitters 

• .75 ounces Louisiana concentrated Crawfish, Crab, and Shrimp Boil  

• .75 ounces of fresh lemon juice 

• Pinch of ground sea salt 

• Spicy salt to rim glass  

Instructions: 

• In mixing glass add all ingredients except spicy salt  

• Stir ingredients in mixing glass without ice 

• Rim Collins glass with Spicy Salt  

• Add ice to Collins glass 

• Pour ingredients over ice in glass 

• Garnish with a lemon wheel and clam shell/crawfish body if available 

Soleil Mimosa Classic   

Soleil Mimosa Classic is a luscious blend of fresh-squeezed orange juice and crisp, lightly effervescent, white wine. This Soleil Mimosa variety is a result of 27 years of recipe perfecting and sourcing of the most flavorful fruit juices available. Soleil Mimosa has become the #1 mimosa winery in the nation, offering the best quality premade mimosas, made with only the finest wine and freshest juice under the sun. #justsaysolay Shop: Fresh-mimosa.com 

Little Red Cup  

Little Red Cup is a small, family-owned tea company based in Brunswick, Maine. They offer USDA certified organic, fair trade tea, and partner directly with the worker-owned cooperatives that grow and process their tea in China to minimize the middle man between field and cup. They've been featured in the likes of Real Simple and Food & Wine.  

Four Tin Gift Sampler: The perfect gift for any tea-lover — choose any four organic, fair trade teas to include in this darling boxed set of small tins. Perfect for mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, uncles, aunts, coworkers, teachers, butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. Available in preset configurations: Green, Black, Green and Black, the Spectrum, or choose your own!

Ghost Peri-Peri Hot Sauce by African Dream Foods 

A classic peri-peri with a ghost pepper twist. This well-balanced sauce brings all the umami-ness, sweetness, and spiciness that you could ask for. All-natural and preservative-free, this bright orange sauce has a kick of heat that builds slowly on the tongue. Made with hand-picked African Ghost Peppers. Shop: Africandreamfoods.com 

More Mediterranean

A highly-anticipated followup to our best-seller, The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook, this book lifts the lid on what ingredients fit into a Mediterranean diet (incorporating foods like salmon and avocado) while showing you top-valued hacks and insight to make flavorful, nourishing eating part of your regular life. Learn how to build vibrant meals around a plant-forward plate inspired by the varied cuisines of the entire Mediterranean Basin. Through this unrestricted take on the Mediterranean diet, you’ll make eating nourishing meals a true joy within your daily routine. Shop: Shop.americastestkitchen.com 

Paige Patisserie S'mores Truffle Box 

Paige Patisserie is a unique dessert company that designs gourmet truffles. The s’mores truffle is filled with a dark chocolate cream, flavored with a touch of liquid smoke, to add to the wooden fireplace taste. There is a touch of marshmallow cream at the top of the mixture, and a graham cracker crumble topping that’s flavored with cinnamon to complete the ensemble. By far, this is the most popular flavor for our customers. This box comes with ten, single flavored truffles, and will arrive ready to enjoy. We invite you to give a unique gift to a unique person in your life, because they deserve it. Shop: Paigepatisserie.com 

Savoury Import's TRUFF White Truffle Hot Sauce 

The White Truffle hot sauce is a curated blend of ripe chili peppers, organic agave nectar, white truffle, and a hint of organic coriander. Shop: Truff.com 

Flourish Flour 

Baking is all about indulging and with Flourish you can do just that - but healthily! An all-purpose wheat flour with better-for-you benefits, Flourish Flour is the first high fiber, low-net carb flour that supports good digestive and immune health without compromising the flavor or texture of your go-to tried and true recipes. So let go of the guilt and eat as many holiday cookies as you want this year!   

SugarRoti Signature Holiday Collection 

A delicious gift for every cook! Ignite those taste buds with our Signature Holiday Collection - a curated assortment of six of our most popular Indian spice blends perfectly packaged in our limited edition hand-crafted SugarRoti Spice Crate. This gift bundle will delight any palate.   We hope your friends invite you for dinner! Shop: Sugarroti.com  

The Breeze Brand's Got Health Immunity Gummies       

Health is wealth, especially in times like these. Take care of yourself by boosting your immunity with Breeze's CBD gummies. Each bottle comes with 30 blood orange ginger flavored gummies that have 10mg of broad spectrum CBD (per gummy). The formula is also made with a blend of vitamin C and zinc citrate for that extra health and wellness boost. A certificate of analysis is included on their product page so you can rest easy knowing what you are putting in your body is of the highest quality. Shop : Thebreezebrand.com    

The Balanced Company The Balanced Snack Box  

The Balanced Snack Box is a new monthly subscription box jam-packed with healthy snacks that are made with high-quality ingredients. Each box comes with a variety of sweet and savory snacks, so there's something for everyone, and the retail value of each box is always more than what you pay! Shop: Us.thebalancedcompanyinc.com