My 2024 Holiday Gift Guide 🎁🎄
My personal picks for flawless gift-giving this holiday season.
I am so excited to bring you my 2024 Holiday Gift Guide! I’ve worked on this guide bit by bit for the last six months, jotting down ideas while shopping in little boutiques, the mall or just browsing online, and I positively love everything on the list this year. As always, these are items that I either already own and treasure, or would happily gift to my loved ones.
Before we get to the guide, I’ll address the elephant in the room: I know it’s weird timing to be publishing a gift guide in light of the divisive election results a few days ago. Like many of you, I’ve been working through a rollercoaster of hard feelings since Tuesday, but I have faith that we’ll get through this together, as we’ve done before. Take some time to regroup and find gratitude in all the small and large ways that things are going right. Distract yourself when you need to. Seek comfort in your loved ones. Remind yourself that very often, things don’t turn out as badly as we fear. Once the dust has settled, we’ll find a way to collectively and productively move forward. Yet, it’s OK - healthy, even - to regularly take a break from it all, when you can and need to. I’m happy to be able to bring some fun, levity and holiday anticipation to my community during an otherwise fraught week.
So, grab a cozy beverage and enjoy. Let’s merrily kick off the season together, shall we? Happy shopping!
xo Lauren
This book is the biggest and best compendium of Italian food that I’ve come across to date. It’s obsessively thorough, beautifully designed and so fun to flip through, covering over 1,000 Italian foods and ingredients, nearly 250 recipes for classic dishes, fascinating cultural anecdotes and references, and cooking guides. It’s the must have gift for any Italophile or food lover.
For the true tea lover in your life, this adorable portable ceramic tea pot combines beauty with functionality. Paired with a container of their favorite loose leaf tea, it’s the perfect thing to bring to the office or on their next getaway.
The Met x Anthropologie Collection
I’m in love with nearly everything from this homeware collection at Anthropologie, which draws from the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Everything is sure to add a touch of gilded age elegance to your home, but I’m especially enamored with the dessert plates and the chic salt and pepper cellar set.
This irresistible little set contains 3 notebooks designed with the iconic Mastering the Art of French Cooking in mind, with culinary illustrations, Julia Child quotes and a handy back pocket perfect for keeping notes or saved recipes. The food lover in your life will love these for jotting down shopping lists, entertaining menus, recipes and more.
Wildgrain is a subscription service that delivers artisan breads, pastries and fresh pasta directly to your door, with a new customizable plant-based box option; everything goes from freezer to table in less than 25 minutes, so you can essentially have warm sourdough bread, blueberry biscuits and croissants on demand. You can also pause, reschedule or cancel your subscription without penalty, making the service truly flexible to your needs and tastes.