Arrive at your holiday host's home with local spirits (such as Arrowood Farms' floral gin) and put a beautiful label on it.

Rebecca Miller Ffrench of Upstate Table is a fan of L'Impatience Ceramics' minimalist and affordable candlesticks and vases. 

The single-origin extra virgin olive oil from Carnevale Prodotti in Kingston comes from a 1,000-year-old olive grove in Calabria, Italy, and is a treat for home cooks. 

Food lovers have mixed feelings when shopping during the holidays. They tend to be very specific about items such as knives and pans, but they are also ideal recipients, for example, items that stimulate kitchen-related rituals-loose tea, candlesticks, etc.

When it comes to edible items (biscuits), ingredients (olive oil) and beverages (wine), it is always helpful to understand what is truly delicious before packaging and gifting. According to Hudson Valley bakers, cookbook authors, and shopkeepers, any foodie in your life can find something local and wonderful this season. Here are some ideas.

Lost Quarry's plates are handmade; ribbed dessert plates are just one of their styles.

Rebecca Miller Ffrench is the founder of Kingston's The Upstate Table, a culinary studio. She recommends any vase or candle holder to the local potter behind L'impatience (the number may vary) , But the store is restocking). "I believe that every dining table needs flowers and candles! They are so beautiful to touch, and they are not expensive," she said. A "right-sized" vase costs approximately US$85, while smaller vases cost between US$40 and US$60. The candlestick sells for 35 dollars.

In Ravenwood, Kerhonkson, the owner, Dana McClure, likes the ribbed ceramic dinner and dessert plates of Lost Quarry, a local female manufacturer. They are currently sold out, but there are other handmade plates in stock.

If you are not interested in ceramics, the cookbook author Sarah Copeland (Sarah Copeland) will love "the chic tray at Kingston Exit 19-perfect for serving cocktails, decorating tree trimming parties, stacking holiday biscuits, and even Contains chaos or charming your child wants to leave a decorated gingerbread house throughout the season," she said.

For designer Maryline Damour, tagine has two functions, namely cooking utensils and decoration. 

Another great gift is something that inspires cooking, such as tagine. "This is a cone-shaped clay pot that has been used in the Middle East and North Africa since the 5th century AD. In addition to being exquisite works of art, this shape can also keep food moist and delicious while cooking," design/architect company Damour Drake Said Maryline Damour, co-founder and chief interior designer.

"Traditional dishes cooked in tagine are also called tagines. It is a mixture of root vegetables and meat, which is perfect for winter meals," said Damour, who is also the founder of Kingston Design Connection, which hosts Kingston Design every year. Showhouse. Damour sells Taji pots at Rhinebeck's Warren Kitchen & Cutlery, but given the current shortage of stock, you can choose to buy them directly from the popular ceramic cookware manufacturer Emile Henri.

The beautiful bottled Laurel & Ash maple syrup sold in Ravenwood is almost too beautiful to be opened at breakfast.

Giving food to people who like food is a strange thing. What if they don't like the taste? Guaranteed items and stellar composition are the way to go. At Ravenwood, you can choose amber, dark or ultra dark maple syrup from the local husband and wife team Laurel & Ash. 

Michelle Chiu, who runs the Asian food pop-up shop The Two Five, ate syrup during the holidays and swears by using a mix and match flavor 6 packs of Tree Juice maple syrup from Arkville. "Everyone I gave this gift box liked it," she said.

Ffrench is buying all the extra virgin olive oil she can buy from Carnevale Prodotti in Kingston. "The buttery texture and pungency of this luxurious single-source olive oil will make everything you drizzle on it to the next level. It's a real indulgence," she said. (Due to the high demand, the supply of oil may be limited.)

Candies are never a bad gift idea-and they go with tea. Copeland bought her recent obsession with sweetness at Adams Fairacre Farms: "A very good Dresden Stollen or Kristolen, suitable for cold winter mornings, eaten with cocoa. If you are going to a friend’s house to eat Holiday meals, parties or overnight stays, they are a wonderful and unexpected gift."

Biscuits may be more anticipated than Stollen, but they are equally appreciated. "There is nothing better than baking sweets with love to show love, and there is no law that they cannot be purchased. Small batches are basically homemade, right?" French jokingly. She sells boxes of biscuits on her website. Expect mixtures like chewy chocolate ginger chips, jam-filled biscuits, and lavender sugar biscuits. 

Are there hot sauce fanatics on your list? Choose a local pepper connoisseur, such as Richard Rajkumar, owner of Kingston Ram's Valley, and enjoy. Trinidad chef’s cheeky name for hot sauce—Mother of Dragons, too hot—makes the perfect stocking filling for $10 each.

Millerton-based Harney & Sons tea is a simple and elegant gift, and the Paris blend tea with bergamot and vanilla flavors is one of their most popular teas.

Ffrench likes to provide people with Millerton's own Harney & Sons Parisian tea. "People fell in love with this tea at the first bite. It has the flavors of vanilla and bergamot. It is very cute, balanced and approachable, but with a touch of exquisiteness."

For the drinkers on your list, drinks will never disappoint. "A box of wine from Kingston Wine Company is a universal gift for people who like food and entertainment," Copeland said. She just told the owner Michael Drapkin if she wanted natural wine, red wine, white wine or mixed wine. "[He] is such an excellent curator; I believe in anything he pieced together."

Any favorite local wine shop can provide the same benefits. Or choose something stronger and pick up a beautiful bottle of Arrowood farm distilled wine. Floral aromas, London dry gin, grain distilled vodka and oak barrel aged bourbon are sold in local stores, including Kingston Wine Company, Hudson Grapefruit Wine, Rheinback Wine and Liquor, as well as the Accord’s farm itself.

Give the experience gift of the cooking class. Rebecca Ffrench launched some on Upstate Table this month, including one of the holiday classic bûche de Noël. 

For gourmets who are hungry for more information, recipes are always a good idea. Copeland wrote a series of headlines, many of which were designed to make it easy to cook on a busy workday night, such as "Everyday is Saturday."

In Ravenwood, check out Molly Baz’s very popular “Cook This Book”, or short stack series, which are “small recipes written by the top culinary talents in the United States. Everyone focuses on recipes with one ingredient,” McClure Say.

Courses are another interesting experience activity. The gift voucher for one of The Upstate Table's upcoming seminars is $100 per person. "I like to call them seminars and classrooms; we are not in our toques and our white people. It's like you are at a friend's house. I want to give you all the tidbits I can provide and try to teach you something," Ffrench said. Upcoming themes include Gingerbread House (December 12) and bûche de Noël (December 16). On December 18th, you can make and exchange holiday cookies.

HGS Home Chef in Hillsdale also offers a series of eclectic cooking and baking courses, such as a Chinese New Year feast with food writer Kian Lam Kho (January 15, 2022; $85), and how to join Lou Jones at Making sourdough bread and sourdough BritBreads at home (January 16, 2022; $80).

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Alexandra Zissu (Alexandra Zissu) is a New Yorker born and raised. She spent her childhood weekends and summers in the Hudson Valley. She was completely transplanted to New Paltz in 2013 with her family. The farm where they provide food-this is the best move ever. Every day I woke up to see the scenery of Gunks supporting her. She is obsessed with family dinners, likes to try to grow vegetables with her two daughters, talk to trees while walking in the woods, raise kittens, and write six books all about the environment and health.