Gourmet Food Gifts You'll Want to Stock Yourself

Counter Culture's amazingly smooth coffees are the next best thing to locally grown; each variety includes details about the exact farm where the coffee was cultivated. Check online, and you can even Google Map your selection.

Price: $11 to $14 (12-oz.)

Shop: Counter Culture Coffee

Slather on the sweetness with Crofter's intriguing Pomegranate and Black Currant Fruit Spread.

Price: $5

Mediterranean fleur de sel brings out the bright flavors of tomatoes, and we just love the summery jar—no matter what the time of year.

Price: $24 (4.4-ounce ceramic jar)

Shop: The French Farm

Grove 45’s olive trees are Italian imports. But the olives they produce are grown, harvested, and pressed into spicy extra-virgin oil in the Napa Valley.

Price: $45 (18.5-ounce bottle)

Shop: Grove 45

Rochester, NY-based Fee Brothers produce intense, flavorful bitters—classics as well as unusual versions like rhubarb and chocolate.

Price: $7

Shop: Amazon.com

Hot, crunchy, tart, complex: The essential Korean fermented-cabbage pickle gets better with age.

Price: $9

Shop: Granny Choe

Fans of the salty soak say it results in a more tender, flavorful turkey. Give it a try with Spice Hunter's Turkey Brine, premixed with sea salt, brown sugar, dried cranberries and apples, orange zest, black peppercorns, thyme, rosemary, and sage.

Price: $10

Like bagged lettuce, only better and much fresher: Tanimura & Antle's 4-pack of artisan lettuce includes petite heads of sweet, soft gem and mildly bitter tango lettuces.

Price: $4

Shop: Specialty Grocers

Who needs oil, with vinegars this smooth and flavorful? We sampled the entire line—pinot grigio, pinot noir, aged balsamic, dark cherry-infused, fig-infused—and loved them all.

Price: $11 to $16 each

Shop: Lucini Italia

Adopt an olive tree, then get tins of first-press oil from its fruit throughout the year.

Price: $109

Shop: Nudo Italia

As the national bacon craze continues, we nominate two favorites: Nueske's and Benton's. A little of either goes an astonishingly long way, suffusing your dish—and kitchen—with rich smokiness.

Price: $20 for 2 pounds (Nueske's), $21 for 4-pound-order (Benton's)

Shop: Benton's Hams 

Luxe, creamy Humboldt Fog, with its trademark ribbon of bitter vegetable ash, is as iconic now as cheddar.

Price: Varies

Dry Soda's zippy flavors have a fraction of the calories and sugar of standard sodas.

Price: $19 (12-pack)

Shop: DRY Soda

Superlight, and supercrisp these whole-grain flatbread rounds are ready to party.

Price: $5

Shop: Major grocery stores nationwide