wishlist items, gifts for your parents, and quality stocking stuffers
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Olive oil
11 min read
The article prominently features olive oil as a premium gift and discusses its quality and nutritional benefits. Wikipedia covers the fascinating history of olive oil production dating back 8,000 years, the chemistry of different grades, regional variations in flavor profiles, and health research.
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Dutch oven
12 min read
The article recommends a Dutch oven as an heirloom kitchen piece. The Wikipedia article covers the 17th-century Dutch origins, how the English industrialized production, its role in American frontier cooking, and the metallurgy of why cast iron distributes heat so evenly.
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Laurus nobilis
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The article mentions bay leaf garlands and wreaths as gifts. Wikipedia covers the Mediterranean origins, its sacred role in ancient Greek culture where laurel wreaths crowned Olympic victors and poets, the etymology of 'baccalaureate,' and its culinary and medicinal uses.
Today we bring you our final few themed gift guides! We’ve got great gifts for your parents, super special items you might want to add to your own wishlist, and stocking stuffers (for both kids and adults!) that have staying power.
Parents can be hard to shop for — my mom has told me countless times, “I don’t need a thing!” And while that may be true, I still want to gift them something special! So I aim to gift my mom (and dad, though I put a lot of those ideas on our guide for the guys!) gifts that are both special and useful, like my favorite EVOO; a photo frame with always-up-to-date pictures of their grandsons; cute, comfy shoes; and a calendar that doubles as a piece of art. Here are all of my tried-and-true parent gifts!
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: Good quality olive oil makes an amazing present for any hard-to-shop-for parent or in-law! I ship a holiday gift box of Kosterina to my parents and in-laws every holiday season — it comes festively packaged and ready for them to use. Consumable gifts are the ultimate gift, especially for anyone who has enough stuff, and Kosterina olive oil is the ultimate consumable gift, IMO! So tasty, nutritious, and beautifully bottled. They have a ton of other gift set options, too!
My sister and I bought an Aura digital picture frame for mom’s birthday this year and she loves it! We regularly upload pics of all our boys, so they always have up-to-date photos of their grandsons on display. There’s no photo limit, other family members can link up and add pics too, and this is my favorite part: you can pre-load it with a photo or video that they’ll immediately see when they hook it up to WiFi — it’d be so sweet to take a video of your family all saying, “Merry Christmas, we love you!” You can pre-load it with other pics, too, but I especially love the greeting idea for holiday gifting. For a limited time you can use the code CAROLINE for $45 off their best-selling Carver Mat frame1 (it’s my fave style!) — it should automatically apply when you click here.
Order one of these gorgeous bay leaf garlands and/or wreaths to arrive the first week of December! These are from the family
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