12 Gifts Your Foodie Friends Will Love

— -- intro: These presents are no boring wine-of-the-month clubs. From a bacon-making kit to vintage menu art, we present to you our top 12 foodie gift picks that are guaranteed slam-dunk successes for the food lovers in your life.

quicklist:1title: Chocolate Whiskeytext: Whiskey sales have skyrocketed this year, but there may still be that one friend who you’re having trouble bringing over to the right side. That’s where this chocolate whiskey, a Brooklyn-made product from Kings County Distillery steeped in Mast Brothers chocolate cacao husks, comes in handy -- it’s the ideal starter drink for the uninitiated brown stuff imbiber because of its subtly sweet, rich flavor.

Available from Mouth for $25.media: 27506072

quicklist:2title: Andrew Zimmern's Quarterly Packagetext: What if you could eat what a well-traveled, jet-setting chef recommends? Oh wait, you can with Andrew Zimmern’s packages that deliver his favorite flavors from the road to your doorstep. Past boxes have included smoked olive oil, lamb jerky and hand-picked tea.

Available from Quarterly for $50.media: 27505027

quicklist:3title: Glass Pottext: So this may be the most unnecessary pot ever. But it’s so cool (and, admittedly, a splurge) that it makes the absolute perfect gift for the frequent cook.

Available from the Museum of Modern Art for $200.media: 27505970

quicklist:4title: Molecular Gastronomy Kittext: If you’ve ever eaten molecular gastronomy, you know you’re left asking, “How did they do that?” Well, this kit shows you how, providing everything you need to get started, like agar-agar, silicone tubes, recipes and more.

Available from Molecular Recipes for $49.95.media: 27505393

quicklist:5title: Custom Map Coaster Settext: Keep a memory alive with these custom coasters -- just pick a place that has significance to you and your friend, like that amazing vacation spot or your favorite bar from college, and the four tumbled marble coasters will display the map of that location.

Available from Uncommon Goods for $65.media: 27505772

quicklist:6title: Mixology Dicetext: These little guys are the ideal stocking stuffer. Each side is printed with different compatible cocktail ingredients, so just roll for the perfect spontaneous drink.

Available from Foodie Dice for $24.media: 27505623

quicklist:7title: Vintage Menu Arttext: Modern menus just don’t have the same flair as ones from back-in-the-day. For proof, peruse Cool Culinaria’s extensive collection of vintage menus, and you’ll be struggling to choose just one to frame for your friend’s wall.

Available from Cool Culinaria starting at $20.media: 27504728

quicklist:8title: Iconic Cookbook Settext: This isn’t called the iconic cookbook set for no reason. All the best cooking tomes ("The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century" by Amanda Hesser; James Beard’s "American Cookery"; "Joy of Cooking, 75th Anniversary Edition"; "How to Cook Everything" by Mark Bittman; and "The Cook's Illustrated Cookbook" by America's Test Kitchen) are included and prettily bound in turquoise, red, green or grey in this set that will make for some excellent meals.

Available from Food 52 for $295.media: 27505871

quicklist:9title: Mouth Food Setstext: Get these New Year’s resolution and unresolution sets for your friend who just can’t make up her mind. Full of healthy and not-so-healthy foods respectively, both sets contain indie, small-batch American foods for snacking. Neither of these kits float your boat? Browse the hundreds of other options.

Each available from Mouth for $50.media: 27505078

quicklist:10title: Whiskey Elementstext: For your fine whiskey-loving friend whose wallet demands otherwise, gift these wood sticks that impart the expensive oak flavor in as few as 24 hours. All you do is submerge the sticks, which come in smoke, wine cask and maple vanilla flavors, for a Jim that tastes more like Johnnie.

Available from Time & Oak for $12.media: 27504570

quicklist:11title: Salted Cooking Classestext: Everyone who loves cooking dreams of going to culinary school. And now they can for the low, low price of just $9.99 a month! Salted, an online cooking school, boasts virtual video classes by renowned chefs across the country like Roy Choi and Daniel Holzman with courses on butchery, pickling, handmade pasta and way, way more.

Available from Salted for $9.99/month.media: 27504979

quicklist:12title: Bacon-Making Kittext: This one kind of speaks for itself. If your friend loves bacon, then she will loooove her handmade bacon. The kit gives you everything you need (except the actual meat) to make bacon from scratch in your very own kitchen.

Available from Williams-Sonoma for $39.95media: 27506133