Welcome to our 4th Annual Women Who Brunch Holiday Foodie Gift Guide 2023! If you’re a foodie like me or have an aspiring home chef in your life this guide is for you.
This year we’re including categories like Home Chef Essentials, Amazon Food Finds, the Best Cookbooks of 2023, and in honor of supporting local we’ve included twelve of our favorite local Hudson Valley Businesses. We put out a call and with over 40+ submissions it was truly hard to narrow it down. These are businesses that we chose had a good mix of women-owned, friends we’ve worked with this year and all around good people and products. I hope you’ll support and shop local on these picks!
Some important reminders… you can view previous gift guides for inspiration below.
Previous Gift Guides: 2022, 2021, 2020.
And for easy access, we’ve put most of these gifts in our 🛍️ Amazon Storefront under “Gift Guide” here.
Food and gathering around our loved ones each holiday season is the heart and inspiration behind these gift guides. Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and full holiday season.
xoxo,
Nicole
Amazon Kitchen Finds
Over the Door Pantry Organizer: Heavy-Duty Metal Over the Door Organizer, 6-Tier Pantry Door Organizer for Easy Install. Maximize small pantry spaces with this pantry organizer.
Silicone Faucet Mat for Kitchen Sink: Perfect sink splash guard for your Kitchen or Bathroom Faucet. Catches Water and is a sink draining pad behind your faucet.
Purriko Refrigerator Deodorizer: Lasts for 10 Years in your Refrigerator. Eliminates order.
Kitchen Mat: Cushioned anti-fatigue kitchen mat. Waterproof non-slip. Heavy Duty Ergonomic comfort foam for Kitchen, Floor Home, Office, Sink, Laundry. I love having these in the kitchen for cooking and dishes.
Jar Opener: 5 in 1 Multi Function Can Opener Bottle Opener Kit with Silicone Handle
Clip On Food Strainer: Silicone for All Pots, Pans, Pasta Strainer
🛍️ Shop the Amazon Finds in our Amazon Store under Gift Guide
Essentials For the Home Chef
🎁 Caraway Home - Cookware Set:
Non-toxic, ceramic-coated non-stick home goods, pans, cookware, and bakeware.
I have the Cookware Set in Navy and am in love. I love that it’s non-stick and so easy to clean. It comes with a frying pan, sauce pan, saute pan, dutch oven, and storage.
Great Jones is a women-run, New York Based small business that wants to equip and empower you to cook at home and make your kitchen a happy place. They have everything from cookware and bakeware with bold vibrant patterns and colors. An essential item for any home chef IMO is a dutch oven but their pans and stoneware also make great gift options.
🎁 Burlap & Barrel: Spice Sets, Gifts, Passports, and Spice Club Membership:
Burlap & Barrel sources single origin spices for professional kitchens and home pantries. By partnering directly with farmers, they are a Public Benefit Corporation building new international spice supply chains that are equitable, transparent and traceable.
They have some really unique spices and collaborations too. Encourage you to check out some of their gift sets and best sellers here.
East Fork makes and sells contemporary ceramic dinnerware made by hand with regional materials and a lot of integrity in Asheville, North Carolina. Every host needs good tableware.
One tool every good chef needs is a chef’s knife. Made In Cookware, came to popularity this year from it’s rich 100-year old, family-owned restaurant supply business. Co-founders Jake & Chip started Made In to bring restaurant-quality, performance kitchenware to home cooks around the world.
They collaborated directly with leaders like Chefs Grant Achatz, Mashama Bailey, and Matt Horn and even partnered with a few chefs, like Nancy Silverton and Tom Colicchio.
Hedley & Bennett was born in a restaurant kitchen out of the need for a better working & better-looking apron. Founded by Ellen Bennett. Their aprons are made from high-quality materials, offering the perfect balance of protection, functionality, and comfort.
Cookbooks of 2023
📚 More is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen: A Cookbook - Molly Baz
It’s time to crank up the heat and lose the measuring spoons because the secret to cooking is hiding in one simple motto: MORE IS MORE. In her bestselling debut cookbook, Cook This Book, Molly Baz taught the cooking essentials and put her love for mortadella and dill on blast. In More Is More, she’s teaching cooks how to level up their cooking, loosen up in front of that ripping hot pan, and seek deliciousness at all costs.
📚 Let’s Eat: 101 Recipes to Fill Your Heart & Home - Dan Pelosi
In his debut cookbook, larger-than-life personality Dan Pelosi offers up a warm hug of home cooking, sharing both comfort food and connection with 101 of his nearest and dearest Italian American recipes. Some have been passed down through his family, and others have been cooked up from scratch.
📚Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours - Adeena Sussman
As a child, Adeena Sussman looked forward to the magic of Shabbat—the traditional Jewish day of rest—all week. A treasured time when family and friends come together to relax, unwind, and revel in one another’s company during open-ended, tantalizing meals, Shabbat has been practiced all over the world and throughout history. In Sussman’s home, then and now, the Shabbat table is a centering force, a nourishing place where one and all are welcome. It’s an opportunity every week to feed the soul.
📚 100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen - Sarah Kieffer
From celebrated blogger Sarah Kieffer whose pan-banging cookie technique "broke the internet," this is a go-to baking book featuring 100 recipes for spectacular cookies, brownies, bars, and more!
📚 The Official Disney Parks Cookbook: 101 Magical Recipes from the Delicious Disney Vault - Pam Brandon
Some of the best vacation moments happen during a great meal, and this collection of official Disney parks recipes is the perfect ingredient to sharing similar food, love, and laughter with friends and family at home!
📚 That Sounds So Good: 100 Real-Life Recipes for Every Day of the Week - Carla Lalli Music
Great food is an achievable part of every day, no matter how busy you are; the key is to have go-to recipes for every situation and for whatever you have on hand. The recipes in That Sounds So Good are split between weekday and weekend cooking. When time is short, turn to quick stovetop suppers, one-pot meals, and dinner salads. And for the weekend, lean into lazy lunches, simmered stews, and hands-off roasts.
Shop Local in the Hudson Valley
🍎 Elizabeth Grubaugh - Cards, Prints, Scarves, Tableware. Sterling Forest New York
Elizabeth Grubaugh print designer, Textile designer, graphic designer, creative director, prints for kids, wall art.
🍎 The Spice Beast - Spices, Hot Sauces, Salts, Olive Oil & Balsamic, Gift Sets - Campbell Hall NY
We are an all natural spice and herb company. Originally started out with 16 spice blends and have recently branched out to have three hand crafted blends of hot sauce and 6 hand crafted blends of smoked salt. All made in Campbell Hall NY.
🍎 The Ardent Homesteader / Cara-sel - Salted Caramel - Arden, NY
To make the Cara-sel Salted Caramel they melt the sugar well past the color of copper. It’s toward the edge of being too dark (almost burnt, but not!) until the moment the luxuriously rich dairy comes into play.
Making this dangerously dark caramel is worth it because you can taste it in the sauce. It adds a bittersweet complexity you can’t get from lab-made “flavorings.” Speaking of which, there aren’t any. No preservatives either. Just some sea salt and vanilla to elevate the flavors.
🍎 Raspberry Fields Farm - Granola, Cookies, and Gift Sets - Marlboro, NY
Small batch, from scratch food purveyors. We mix simple ingredients to create an opulent taste experience.
🍎 Mundane - Cold Spring, NY - Candle Shop & Custom Scent Experience.
Foodies! Create your own custom foodie candle! we have new scents like caramel, blackberry and sugar cookie. perfect for holiday gifts whether your purchase a single scent or an experience for someone to create their own.
🍎 Ash Hopper - Soaps, Cleanser, Oil - Warwick, NY
Skin Friendly Ingredients and Consciously Sourced Raw Materials. Free of Chemical Fragrances, Sulfates, Phthalates, Parabens.
🍎 Hudson Valley Cotton Candy: Cotton Candy
Custom cotton candy confections for all to enjoy! From cotton candy cakes, to pops, treat bags and live spinning events, we put a great deal of love into our sweet treats. Our products are gluten free, dairy free and vegan.
🍎 Halfsie Cookies: Cookies! - Marlboro. NY
Cookies are made from scratch in the Hudson Valley, NY.
🍎 Jesha's - Sourdough Baking Mixes
First-ever Sourdough Baking Mixes, made with simple organic ingredients, not a lot of sugar, and naturally fermented whole grains.
🍎 The Vegan Stuff - Vegan Ice Cream & Baked Goods - Beacon, NY
Where plant-based dreams come true! Born in Beacon, NY, we started with handmade vegan ice cream, delivered locally with love. Now, our family has grown to include vegan & gluten-free baked goodies! Order online for nationwide bliss, and rock our cool merch too!
🍎 Tiny Greens Farm: Microgreens & Micro-Farm
On a mission to grow functional food with gratitude and joy. Tiny Greens is a woman-owned, veteran family micro-farm producing sustainable and soil-grown microgreens in East Fishkill, New York. We provide a high-quality, hyper-local product that is healthy and fresh 365 days a year. With organic practices in mind, we deliver our produce to restaurants, grocery stores, and establishments within 24 hours of harvest.
🍎 Oxymoron Coffee: Coffee
Two friends who started learning how to roast coffee during the pandemic. Currently sold online, Adam’s Fairacre Farms and now the most recent collaboration is the quintessential Eggbert from Devitt's Nursery and Farm. Roast, package and deliver locally.
🍎 Inglenook Marketplace - Montgomery, NY - Candles, Oils, & Incense. Candle Classes.
Inglenook Marketplace exudes cozy, comfort, and aims to be a beautiful place both online and in-store - allowing our customers to find something unique and special to bring home, share, or gift to others.
*Note - Their last day at their brick & morter store will be December 16, 2023, but can still order candles and goods online.
