Perfect gifts for food-lovers in your life

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Pizza Making Class For a classic New York City food-themed gift, shoot for cooking classes at Pizza a Casa on the Lower East Side. With your help, a friend or family member can learn to form a perfect crust, precisely pour the tomato sauce and bake that sucker to a flawlessly crunchy crisp, all under the wing of trained professionals. In four-hour increments at $150 apiece, the price doesn’t fall under the category of loose change, but your pizza-devouring best friend will thank you for the chance to construct their own perfectly delicious pie.

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Cookie Gift Box  Perhaps you’re looking to keep it simple and classically collegiate this holiday season, and who doesn’t love cookies? There’s no better dessert to satisfy your taste buds and make you ache with nostalgia for a simpler time like a 12 cookie gift box of Insomnia Cookies for $20.

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Gift Packages A particularly famous East Village eatery, appropriately named Eataly, provides Italian food enthusiasts with gifts perfectly crafted by chef Mario Batali. The “We Love Mario” package is particularly appealing: for $34.80, old school food lovers can enjoy two expertly prepared sauces along with Eataly pasta. Easy, scrumptious and distinctly New York — the perfectly holiday.

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Monthly Food Club  For the true cheese enthusiast in your family, there is no better option than a subscription to a monthly club from the New York City classic, Murray’s Cheese. To get the biggest bang for your buck, go for the Pair of the Month Club. At a starting value $175 for four months, the combination of anywhere up to half a pound of artisan cheese paired with “an accompaniment guaranteed to make it sing” is well worth the investment. Plus, the gratitude from your dairy-obsessed buddy would make any gift-giver smile.

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Personalized Tea Of all the options available to the college student, none is better than that which you can make yourself. For this most personal of options, CountryLiving.com recommends homemade tea, a perfect punctuation mark to the holiday season. To create a delightful herbal brew, mix one-fourth an ounce each of lemon balm, chamomile, passion flower and rose petals thoroughly, then spoon out one teaspoon into each small tea bag. Easy and inexpensive, most of these ingredients can be found for cheap at Teavana.