Looking for a gift for your favorite college kid? How about a Darts! Calendar with magnetic darts and 12 different boards (one for each month, see?).

For your favorite baker, how about a Nordicware Mini Holiday Loaf Pan or a Culinary Torch? Or try these Kitchen Pals Silicone Oven Mitts. I like to stalk my cupcakes with the shark. I even whistle the JAWS theme song while I’m pulling scones out of the oven.

(I’m just kidding, silly. I don’t know how to make scones.)

Take two Irish coffee mugs (These are $2.95 each at Crate and Barrel, but you can find them just about anywhere. . . except, like, gas stations.)

Add two irresistibly silly Teddy Bear Slipper Coasters.

And some gourmet cocoa or a pound of coffee, and you’re good to go.

If we lived in a land of giants, you could give this enormous fortune cookie to a friend and he’d be all, “What’s the big deal about this? It’s not even as big as my thumb. Ho ho ho.” And you’d be all, “I thought only Santa Claus said ‘ho ho ho’” and he’d be all, “No. Giants say it too. It’s the Green Giant’s trademark phrase.”

Thankfully, we do not live amongst giants–but I am equally thankful to live amongst these really big fortune cookies.

Salt and Playtime salt and pepper shakers. For those who like well-seasoned foods. And childhood. And, to a lesser extent, Sarah Palin or anyone with the same initials as Sarah Palin.

In the past few years, shows like Top Chef and Hell’s Kitchen have aimed to show us the cutthroat “real” side of the high-end restaurant world, along the way treating fans to such phrases as “flavor profile” and “molecular gastronomy” and introducing a greater audience to culinary character Anthony Bourdain, a recurring judge on Top [...]

Hey, did you steal that title from a third season episode of the Brady Bunch?

Uh, yeah. Greg didn’t have enough “dough” to rent a studio to record his really groovy song “We Can Make the World a Whole Lot Brighter.”

Maybe that’s because he spent all his dough on this bread.
I think we’ve exhausted the [...]