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A Food & Wine Gift Guide

Stainless Steel Cheese Slicer

Try this stylish cheese slicer made of stainless steel that uses a wire to cut the perfect slice of cheese.  German design.

Cheese Slicer  |  $22 at UncommonGoods.com

For Your Next Wine Tasting Party from RedEnvelope.com

Turn your next wine party into a first-class event. Wine bottles are slipped into faux-suede wine bags with charms labeling them one through four. After tasting each wine, guests write their descriptions on scorecards. Even if no one correctly identifies the wine, engaging conversation is guaranteed, and everyone will leave with a better grasp of the facets of wine tasting.

Wine Tasting Party Kit  |  $75 at RedEnvelope.com

Modern Holiday Cards & Invitations

Special Promo - Free Pashimina with $125 order

Our friends at Fabulous Stationery let us know that they have a great holiday special running right now.  Order $125 of their custom imprinted cards and get a free Pashimina scarf (value $100) with your order.

We featured Fabulous Stationery before because we love their contemporary greeting card designs and custom imprinting service.  Check out their holiday invites and cards.

Ideas for Wine Gift Baskets

Wine gift baskets have become a popular way to show your appreciation to friends, party hosts, clients, and colleagues.  Here's a quick selection of some great wine gift baskets.

• Tour the Wine Country Gift Basket
• Executive Selection Wine Gift Pack
• California Wine Tasting Gift Basket
• Celebration Box with Sparkling Wine Gift Basket

See more wine gift ideas:  Wine Country Gifts   |  Gift Baskets  |  Great for Gifts  | Wine Collections

Bestselling Cookbooks - Week of November 7 2005

From our friends at ecookbooks.com, here's their bestselling cookbooks this week--

1. America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook - by Cook's Illustrated Editors - Many years in the making, this comprehensive cookbook delivers more than 1,...
2. Baker's Tour - by Nick Malgieri - 100 delectable recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, ...
3. America's Best Recipes 2005-2006 - forward by Mario Batali - Every year The Best American Recipes is chosen by critics as one of the nation's top cookbooks. ...
4. Best Recipes in the World - by Mark Bittman - Mark Bittman traveled the world to find and bring back the best recipes of home cooks from 44 countries. ...
5. Charcuterie - forward by Thomas Keller - Charcuterie, a culinary specialty that originally referred to the creation of pork products such as salami, ...
6. Cooking at Home with America's Test Kitchen - by America's Test Kitchen - Watching a celebrity chef prepare a recipe on TV can be alot of fun, ...
7. DVD French Chef with Julia Child - by Julia Child - Chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia's love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this special collection of 18 episodes from her original series. ...
8. Everyday Italian - by Giada De Laurentiis - Charming, gorgeous, and extremely talented, Giada De Laurentiis is the star of Food Network's Everyday Italian...
9. Fast Food My Way - Jacques Pepin - Cooks in a hurry...

Gourmet Chocolate Bars with Classic Creme Fillings

Chocolate Bar NYC introduces Retro Chocolate Bars made with their finest gourmet chocolate and filled with flavors inspired by "broadwalk candy stores".  Creme flavors include Salted Pretzel, Key Lime Pie, Peanut Butter Caramel, Coconut Cream Pie, Malted Milk, Caramel Apple, and Raspberry Jam.  Available individually or in a chocolate gift box.

Purchase Retro Chocolate Bars directly from their website at ChocolateBarNYC.com.

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Decorate your holiday parties with Candela ambients

Just in time for your holiday parties.  Decorate your Thanksgiving and Christmas parties with a Candela 10-pack of rechargable lights.

Candela Pro 10 Lamp Set |  $399 via Amazon.com

Decant your wines easily with the Wine Funnel

Need a quick and effective way to decant your wine?  The Wine Funnel aerates your wine into e into eight separate streams helping smooth out its tannic flavor and improve the taste.  European design also includes a stainless steel filter to catch bits of cork and sediment.

Wine Funnel   |  $20 at UncommonGoods.com

New York Bagels & Lox Gift Basket

Missing New York City?  Give yourself or close New York loved one a gift basket of New York bagels and lox. 

Zabars puts it all together the right way with their NYC Essentials Gift Basket.  You'll get an assortment of fresh-baked New York bagels, Zabar's Nova lox, plain and scallion cream cheese, Zabar's chocolate babka & rugelach, almond biscuits, Perugina Baci chocolate bar, and a pound of Zabar's ground coffee.  It's a gift basket any New Yorker or NY foodie would love.

NYC Essentials Gift Basket  |  $179 Next Day Air from Zabars.com

A Retro Wine Rack - The Wine Knot

The Wine Knot is designed by New York based design firm called Mint.  Made of birch and walnut plywood, the Wine Knot is a different take on the standard boxy wine rack designs out there.

Wine Knot Wine Rack  |  $100 at GreenerGrassDesign.com