The 2009 Holiday Gift Guide
Photo: Compartes Chocolatier
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Chocolate is a holiday gift staple, and rightly so. This year, we've sampled dozens, and have come up with our top three choices.
For your socially conscious loved ones who celebrate Hanukkah, Divine Chocolate's milk chocolate coins ($3.99 per bag) are sweetly perfect. These smooth and creamy coins, which are both kosher and fair-trade, look just like gelt. Teuscher, makers of high-quality Swiss chocolates, earn high marks for their champagne truffles (boxes start at $37.50), luscious milk chocolates filled with ganache and champagne cream. The chocolatier Jonathan Grahm's signature truffles ($40 per box, at left) ($40 per box), which he hand-paints in his Brentwood, California, store, are almost too beautiful to eat, but one bite of any of his lovely creations proves that these chocolates taste as good as they look. |
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