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Get the Goods— BBE Gift Guide for Food Lovers
Home cooks, fire up your stoves! The race to the holidays has begun. Whoever makes it to New Year’s without ruining dinner (or going broke) wins. Here are some companies that can help on both fronts.
Microplane The compact zesting tools are perfect stocking stuffers and provide what every cook needs: fluffy zest without the bitter pith. The 21-year-old company also makes box cheese graters—easy-to-grip handheld tools that have won praise from Food Network stars Giada and Alton Brown.
us.microplane.com
Brooklyn Slate Owners Kristy Hadeka, a Parsons graduate student, and Sean Tice, a graphic designer, started out by sneaking stones from the Hadeka family’s slate quarry in upstate New York and repurposing them into trivets. Now they turn out gorgeously rough-hewn boards and coasters that you’ll find at Williams-Sonoma and the venerable Manhattan cheese shop Murray’s. A must for your cheese-loving friends (do you have any other kind?).
www.brooklynslate.com
Copper Gifts Calling all copper lovers! These gleaming, penny-colored tea kettles, candle holders and more than 2,000 cookie cutters are shaped and hand-soldered by craftspeople committed to the art of American copper making. Dozens of pastry chefs have professed true love for these cutters, which range from A (an aardvark) to Z (a zebra) and everything in between, including mini to enormous gingerbread boys and girls.
www.coppergifts.com
Microplane The compact zesting tools are perfect stocking stuffers and provide what every cook needs: fluffy zest without the bitter pith. The 21-year-old company also makes box cheese graters—easy-to-grip handheld tools that have won praise from Food Network stars Giada and Alton Brown.
us.microplane.com
Brooklyn Slate Owners Kristy Hadeka, a Parsons graduate student, and Sean Tice, a graphic designer, started out by sneaking stones from the Hadeka family’s slate quarry in upstate New York and repurposing them into trivets. Now they turn out gorgeously rough-hewn boards and coasters that you’ll find at Williams-Sonoma and the venerable Manhattan cheese shop Murray’s. A must for your cheese-loving friends (do you have any other kind?).
www.brooklynslate.com
Copper Gifts Calling all copper lovers! These gleaming, penny-colored tea kettles, candle holders and more than 2,000 cookie cutters are shaped and hand-soldered by craftspeople committed to the art of American copper making. Dozens of pastry chefs have professed true love for these cutters, which range from A (an aardvark) to Z (a zebra) and everything in between, including mini to enormous gingerbread boys and girls.
www.coppergifts.com
Grate Expectations
We marvel at its spare design and the amazing versatility of the Microplane grater, agreeing totally with cookbook author Jill Dupleix, who wrote: “It’s hard to believe that after all these years, some nerdy, geeky man got fed up with the stupid graters we women have had to use all these years, went out to his shed, and came up with this. Thank you, nerdy, geeky man.”
