Tasteful Giving: The Best Food Gifts

If you're feeling generous this year, don't forgot to tell Santa and his reindeer to call on the truffle pigs, and grab a bottle or two of TRUFF's limited edition White Truffle Hot Sauce. Rare and available only seasonally, white truffles have a bigger, more richly umami flavor than their black cousins, which are the stars of TRUFF's flagship black truffle hot sauce.

The TRUFF White Truffle Limited Release blends ripe jalapenos with the elusive mushroom, plus adds white truffle oil, organic agave nectar, and a hint of organic coriander to embolden its savory flavor.

Having been the joint giver / recipient of Neuhaus Chocolates' Winter Wonderland pop-up advent calendar last year, I can say with certainty (and praline and ganache all over my face) the Belgian chocolate brand makes one of the best advent calendars in the land. If you're looking for a last-minute gift idea, Neuhaus' other themed and non-themed chocolate boxes will deliver the same level of creativity and toothsome pleasure.

A cocktail that tastes like a campfire? Nah, Traeger doesn't go that far with their Smoked Simple Syrup. The mixer is infused with woody flavors more commonly found in your food and drinks - clove and vanilla. And rather than turning your cocktails into liquid smoke, Traeger intends their simple syrup to enhance ciders, Arnold Palmers, Old Fashioneds, or other drinks you might pair with a wood-fired meal.

Pork perfection ain't cheap. This side of acorn fed 100% Iberico de Bellota Ham weighs in at 16 to 18 pounds of pure cured meat delight. As with most large-scale Iberico Ham purchases, this piggy buddy also comes with a wood and stainless steel ham holder and knife, both doubling as utilitarian slicing wingmen and crowd-pleasing display pieces.

You have stumbled upon the end of a rainbow. Jack. Pot. Your days of spending 15 minutes crouched over the cereal bowl picking out all the boring healthy brown bits from Lucky Charms are about to be as over as Aaron Rodgers' glory years.

Some kind manufacturer or child laborer has completed the tedious task of toasted-oat extraction for us, and packaged just the cereal's immaculate clouds of dehydrated marshmallow bliss. Even better: no more 12oz box bullcrap. This fat mass of pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes comes man-sized in an 8lb bag.

In theory, buying The Dirty Cookie's Cookie Shots is way more expensive than buying a Milk & Cookie Shot Maker and baking the chocolate-lined cow-juice-and-booze-slingin' treats yourself. But remember, time is money. And in my case, frustration and smashing a Milk & Cookie Shot Maker on the floor when it doesn't make perfect chocolate chip Baileys reservoirs like I told it to are money too. Ultimately, probably more money than a set of The Dirty Cookie's pre-made Cookie Shots.