Gifts for All the Names on Your List!
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Santa suggests Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide Gifts for all the names on your list! December 2019 A Special Supplement to Cleveland Daily Banner 2—Cleveland Daily Banner—Tuesday, December 10, 2019 www.clevelandbanner.com From kitchen tools to books, gifts for young chefs By KATIE WORKMAN foods’ history and culture is included. Associated Press EQUIPMENT Do you have a kid in your life who A new smart kitchen tool is exciting, loves a good baking session? Who real- even empowering. Examples: ly wants to use your chef’s knife? Who Immersion blender. For a slightly is addicted to the TV show MasterChef older kid, it can be used to blend things Junior, and who uses words like “uma- like soups and sauces right in the pot. mi” in regular conversation? That save syou from having to trans- There are many terrifi c gifts to en- fer hot liquids into a regular blender courage the fl edgling cooks in our lives. or food processor, so it can be a safer way to puree things. Breville makes COOKING KITS an All in One Immersion Blender that An all-inclusive cooking kit (besides also transforms into a food processor, the ingredients) is often a great catalyst so kids can take on diff erent levels of for getting kids into the kitchen. chopping as they get more skilled. Handstand Kitchen makes a slew of Ice cream maker. Just plain fun. them, including a Rainbows and Uni- Cuisinart makes one in a variety of corns Ultimate Baking set, with cookies colors, with a 1 ½-quart capacity and cutters, unicorn-shaped cupcake tray, the ability to get to a frozen treat in spatula, frosting bag with three tips, less than half an hour. Get creative on and a recipe leafl et and sticker sheet. fl avors. Maybe enhance this gift with Other off erings here include the Out of Cheyenne Cohen/Katie Workman via AP some sprinkles/jimmies. This World space-themed baking kit; a THIS PHOTO shows a plethora of great gift choices for young chefs on a Indoor Garden: Kits include the 17-piece Intro to Baking kit; and several table in New York. From cooking kits to ice cream makers to books to fl ights of Smart Garden, which allows you to matching adult and child apron sets. grow herbs, tomatoes and salad greens. Curious Chef’s kits include a 17-piece honey, there are lots of way to fuel a budding cook’s interest. AeroGarden makes indoor gardens as prep set with bowls, measuring cups well, as does Back to the Roots , includ- and spoons, and a timer. Made for Me raphy, language arts, nutrition and to tortilla warmers to special sprinkles. ing a mushroom-growing kit. has kits for particular foods, such as a more. Comida Argentina and Family Culinary Adventure Society. Cutting Boards. Giving kids their Beginner’s Pasta and Pizza Making Set Date Night are two sample themes. For kids who already know their way own cutting board makes them feel for Kids, as well as a macaron set, sushi The kits are designed by teachers and around a kitchen and are craving new as though they’ve arrived. You can set and pancake party set. chefs for kids ages 4 to 14, and each ingredients and fl avors to play with. Up support Unicef.com by ordering one of includes three illustrated recipe guides, to four times a year, Zingerman’s spe- many hand-carved boards, such as the SUBSCRIPTIONS a cooking tool (such as a garlic mincer cialty food store in Ann Arbor, Mich- teakwood Daily Grain from Guatemala, Here’s a gift that leaves something to or kitchen timer), and other materials. igan, will send a big box of eight to 10 or the Beautiful Meal board from Thai- look forward to after the holidays are Young Chef’s Club. From the folks interesting and on-trend food surpris- land. Or memorialize a family recipe over. Options include: at America’s Test Kitchen, these month- es. A box might contain maff e, a peanut for a child on a cutting board: Carver’s Raddish (think Rad Dish). Each ly kits are also thematic. Kids ages 5 simmer sauce from West Africa; Lisbon Ridge lets you send in a recipe, choose month, a new kit arrives at your door and up receive a box fi lled with fami- lemon marmalade; or a tamarind date a font and board size, and have your fi lled with recipes, tools and activities ly-friendly recipes, hands-on activities, sauce inspired by Somali cuisine, for that incorporate science, math, geog- and extras ranging from board games example. 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Here are four piano touch with a proprietary key scal- It’s fun to play around with a single thoughtful ways to do so: ing system that reproduces the charac- ingredient in many forms. steel. Made for Me makes a begin- ner’s knife designed like a traditional • Holiday Caroling: Spread cheer teristics of each of the 88 notes. Salt: Jacobsen Salt Co. off ers an and musical joy by caroling in your com- • Gift a Performance: Check local chef’s knife, with hollow edge depres- eight-vial set with exotic-sounding munity. Some caroling groups perform at listings for upcoming concerts and per- sions and a sheath for storage. off erings like Alaea Hawaiian Sea nursing homes and shelters, while others formances and give your favorite music Salt, French Sel Gris Salt and Bolivian BOOKS pound the pavement with the purpose of enthusiasts tickets to a show. Many Rose Salt. Or try fl avored salts, all Lots of kid-friendly cookbooks and raising money for a good cause. venues off er gift certifi cates, which will featuring salt crystals from Oregon, food books out there, for all ages. A Consider forming your own charity give recipients the opportunity to select and seasoned with ingredients like few to check out this holiday season: caroling group and donating the pro- their own gifts. lemon zest, black garlic and ghost From America’s Test Kitchen, ceeds to the coff ers of a local music • Host a Movie Marathon: When chilis. “The Complete Cookbook for education program. it comes to most holiday movies, it’s all Olive Oil and Vinegar: The Young Chefs” and “The Com- • Gift an Instrument: Give a loved about the soundtrack, and some of the worlds of olive oil and vinegar are plete Baking Book for Young one the tools needed to create music at most pivotal scenes hinge on song and both vast. For starters, you can make Chefs.” All recipes are kid-tested. home. Whether you’re shopping for a dance. new and diff erent salad dressings all The little chef hat symbols let you novice or a professional, today’s portable For your holiday party this year, week long. O-Med, a small company know how much experience is needed digital pianos are equipped with smart considering hosting a movie marathon. from Grenada, makes lots of variet- for each recipe. features that will suit your recipient’s Invite all your friends and family to enjoy ies, including smoked olive oil, yuzu “Notes from a Young Black needs. the sounds of the season. You can even olive oil and olive oil from Arbequina Chef” (Knopf, 2019): Award-win- With a sleek glossy panel and unibody bill it as a sing-along. olives. Encourage the kids to mix and ning, 29-year old executive chef chassis, the PX-S1000 from Casio, for While music powerfully enriches lives match those with cabernet vinegar, Kwame Onwuachi was raised in New example, evokes a high-end acoustic every day of the year, the holiday season rose vinegar and cava vinegar. Your York City, Nigeria and Louisiana. He grand in a slender design that’s not much presents some special opportunities for family’s vinaigrettes with never be the started cooking at a young age under larger than the keys themselves. A fully making and enjoying it. same. his mother’s direction, and tells an Honey: Bee Raw Honey has a intense story of moving up through beautiful nine-vial assortment of kitchens both gritty and elite. This honeys ranging from fl oral and sweet memoir centers on the experience to buttery to “barnyard.” The honey of being a minority in the culinary comes from diff erent fl ower sources world, and fi nding a place in the across the country, and sales help sphere of fi ne dining. support artisanal beekeepers. “The Best American Food KID-FRIENDLY KNIVES Writing 2019” (Houghton Miffl in Cleveland’s Premier One of the coolest things you can Harcourt, 2019): For more advanced get a budding chef is a knife that’s readers, a collection of work from 25 Auto Body Repair Shop safe for little fi ngers and that they can writers, edited by cook, teacher and call their own.