For those on your list who truly love to cook, kitchen accoutrements are likely to elicit a similar reaction. To make your holiday shopping a snap, we assembled a lineup of our top kitchen picks. (All these gifts are available online at: Williams-Sonoma, Cooking.com, and Sur La Table.) Bonus: These gadgets are not only good but also good for you. Consider this list a recipe for gift-giving success. Enjoy slow food. The dowdy slow cooker has given way to chic-looking “smart” pots like the high-tech Recipe Smart Pot by Rival ($100). This one has more than 200 preprogrammed recipes that are digitally stored in an electronic display. Slow cookers–so-called because they cook food at low temperatures over the course of several hours–can produce healthy meals that taste slaved over, such as savory and low-fat pork tenderloin and tomato-rich Chicken Provençal. Just add ingredients and select the cooking time and temperature on the touch pad. Other programmable cookers by Rival start at $40.
Get Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes Section easily. The labor-intensive task of cutting up grapefruit keeps too many of us from eating this excellent source of vitamin C. (Just half a grapefruit provides 80 percent of the daily quota.) At the squeeze of a handle, the Grapefruiter by Chef’n ($20) sections grapefruit in no time.
