Cooks Illustrated Gift Ideas

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This maraca-inspired salt holder is made of stainless steel. We love its artistic design and its ability to hold other condiments or sauces. Perfect for cooks who want to spice up their dining room table!

This durable apron is made of canvas cotton. We love its built-in oven mitts and its convenient front pocket. Perfect for cooks who want a quality apron!

This informative cooking apron is made from 100% cotton. We love its numeric conversion, cooking glossery and more. Perfect for cooks who are tired of paging through their cookbooks!

This magnetic oven glove is made of 100% cotton fabric. We love its magnetic stick to metal surfaces and its simple, straightforward design. Perfect for cooks when they need to grab the oven mitts quickly!

This heavily illustrated book contains over three hundred images and essays. We love its rare photographs of punk musicians and its collection of punk art and ephemera. Perfect for the Punk lover who wants to relive the punk era!

This helpful yoga pose guide is made of synthetic paper and gloss lamination. We love that it includes tips for breathing, and that it features over 50 poses with detailed illustrated instructions. Perfect to give as a gift to the new yogi in your life to help them with their postures and breathing.

This tech-savvy table top oven is packed with features to deliver quality convection cooking. We love its roomy non-stick interior and selection of pans and racks. Perfect for the home kitchen where cooks appreciate some of the thinking done for them.

This stylish stick blender is finished in brushed stainless steel with black accents, for the ultra-modern look. We love the powerful whisk and chop attachments, and its lightweight, ergonomic design. Perfect for discerning cooks who like their kitchen gadgets to look good as well as perform.

This intriguing cookbook is a collection of recipes provided and illustrated by artists all over the world. We love the evocative and quirky names and the range of art styles. Perfect for culinary fans who enjoy the stories food tells, as much as trying out the recipes.

This unique reversible cutting board is made from the finest northern hard rock maple wood. We love its juice groove channels and its multi work surfaces. Perfect for home cooks updating kitchenware in the home.

This trendy solid Maple wood cutting board is a versatile addition to any kitchen. We love its dual hand grips for easy handling and its reversible sides. Perfect for modern cooks who wants to add a functional feature to their kitchen when looking for a versatile, but classic version of the age old cutting board.

This quarterly publication contains more than three dozen food recipes. Each package includes feature menus from Holiday 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2010, and Fall 2010. After being carefully test by the cooks and editors, these great recipes promise to leave you and you dinner guests feeling satisfied while always wanting more.

This limited edition portrait offers a creative twist to the idea of brainstorming. Created by the artist Daniel Harowitz, the portrait is entitled Brainstorm and is available in three different sizes. A perfect gift for the eccentric decorator, this portrait offers quirky take of the human process of thinking.

This unique indoor grill is a 1700-watt 2-tier grill with reversible nonstick die-cast grill or griddle plate. We love its automatically rotating skewers that cooks kabobs or hot dogs with temperature control. Perfect for the barbeque lover who enjoys grilling indoor and out.

This beautifully illustrated book is full of stylish cyclists pedaling through city streets. We love its gorgeous pictures and its exciting descriptions of cyclists in the big city of London. Perfect for the fashion-forward cyclist who wants to set the bar high!

This iconic cook book from Julia Childs contains 524 recipes. We think this book is ideal for both seasoned cooks and beginners who want to replicate high-end restaurant recipes at home. Perfect for lovers of french cuisine who want to experiment in the kitchen as long as they have a guiding hand.

This comprehensive culinary encyclopedia presents the history of classic continental cuisine as well as contemporary global gastronomy. We love the depth of this new edition, offering classic and innovative recipes, new ingredients, terms and techniques, as well as explanations of current food legislation, labeling, and technology. Perfect for the foodie, who doesn't just want to follow a recipe blindly, she wants to understand everything about the foods she cooks!

Not your average stainless steel skillet, this highly advanced and revolutionary new skillet from Admetior features a built in removable digital thermometer guaranteeing perfect temperatures for every dish. We love the easy to read display that not only tells you the temp in the pan, but also the recommended temperature for almost anything you'd ever need to cook. How's that for easy?  Sure to be a hit with gourmet cooks always wanting the perfect temp!

This organic brown rice, called Mekong Flower, is a natural source of antioxidants also found in blueberries and acai (but with no sugar). We love its light floral scent caused by the germ and bran layer which brings out flavors of nuts and flowers. Perfect for those experimental cooks who are sick of rice that falls flat!

With this unique and hurmet daniigh-tech pancake pan, anyone can make gosh pancakes with ease. We love the pan's quality construction, made from cast iron with a non-stick surface. Now slightly adventurous cooks everywhere can serve these international favorites to their liking--sweet or savory, with chocolate or cheese--and impress their breakfast guests in the first bite.

This versitile silicone mat can be used for either baking or chopping. We love the measurements printed on its surface, making it easy to roll fresh dough. Perfect for the multi-tasking cooks who like to put their equipment to work.

The Smokin' Tex electric smoker is sure to add a whole new dimension to the art of backyard bbq. Featuring stainless steel construction and controlled heat no draft cooking, we love how this smoker perfectly slow-cooks anything you place on the racks by adding some wood, shutting the door and flipping a switch. A smokin' gift idea for the avid grill master looking to add a little fire to the next outdoor barbeque!