Valentine's Day Gifts For Your Food Freak

20 x 200 Vegetable Print
20x200.com | Starting at $24

Online gallery 20 x 200 pitches itself as an  “affordable art dealer,” selling limited-edition prints starting at $20. So, basically, you can call yourself an art collector at the click of a mouse. Looks cool in kitchens.  

Wine Poached Pears
agrodolceforfastfoodies.com | $10

Agro Dolce For Fast Foodies is an upstart blog, recipe resource and gourmet food seller. We can get behind that! These red wine poached pears pair well with vanilla ice cream.

DIY Infused Liquor
$30

Nothing says I Love You like a homemade gift. Nothing says I Love You More like a boozy homemade gift. Take three jalapeno or habanero peppers and cut in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds! Place in a bottle of silver or blanco tequila for three days. DIY gift time.

Tickets to the Austin Food & Wine Festival April 27-29
austinfoodandwinefestival.com | Starting at $250

This spring some of the country’s top chefs will converge on one of the country’s top food cities, Austin, Texas. Momofuku Milk Bar maestro Christina Tosi, Jonathan Waxman, Andrew Zimmern, Food Republic co-founder Marcus Samuelsson, Morimoto and Michelle Bernstein will be in the house, as will some of Texas's top chefs and pitmasters. It’s worth the splurge, and you certainly won’t run out of places to eat at.

Saxelby Cheese Box
store.saxelbycheese.com | Starts at $69

At her Lower East Side shop, Anne Saxelby sells some of the best farmstead cheese available along the East Coast. Now you can buy it as a gift.

Your Own Barrel of Booze | Prices vary

You can buy him or her their own barrel of tequila, bourbon and wine

Food Republic-Approved Cookbooks
Momofuku Milk Bar | $21
The Art of Joe Beef | $25
Truly Mexican | $22
The PDT Cocktail Book | $17

OXO Mandoline
macys.com | $70

Every home cook needs a mandoline slicer. It saves time—and possibly removes digits. So be careful, less you end up in the ER on the 14th.

Burr Grinder & Chemex
amazon.com | Burr Grinder: $200, Chemex: $37

Coffee geekery is sweeping this country by storm. Does your valentine want to get in on the action? Start them off with two essentials: a burr grinder and Chemex coffee maker.

CSA Membership
localharvest.org/csa | Prices vary 

There's all sorts of benefits to joining a CSA—you can support local farmers, eat healthier and maybe score something interesting like oysters, flowers or wine. It's truly the gift that keeps on giving.

Paris vs. NY Print
society6.com | starting at $35

Illustrator Vahram Muratyan likes to compare the striking differences between two great cities, New York and Paris, in his ridiculously cool poster series. Macaron vs. cupcake anyone?

Eva Self-Watering Herb Pot
amazon.com | $48

A solution to the never-ending argument: Did you water the plants?

Salumerai Biellese Lamb Prosciutto

salumeriabiellese.com | sold by the piece

Lamb prosciutto is funky and gamey and pretty much the ultmate man food.

Ozeri Touch Professional Digital Kitchen Scale
amazon.com | $39

For measuring out xantham gum! Get your mind out of the gutter.

Theo Spicy Chile Dark Chocolate Bar
theochocolate.com | $4 per bar

Pepper chocolate is the new bacon chocolate, OK?

Italian Wine Merchants Wine Club
Italianwinemerchants.com | Starts at $99

Mario Batali is a pretty great resource for wine. So why not have him hand-select a couple bottles each month?

Animal Butt Magnets
shop.thefutureperfect.com | $20

Wine Label Remover Kit
amazon.com | $13

Ever wanted to go back to that really great cement-aged Côtes-du-Rhône you bought last month, but couldn’t remember what it was called? (Wine will do that.) Here’s the solution.