A Very 'La Peetch and Food Centric' Holiday Gift Guide

For the tardy, and the food nerdy. Mostly Okay, Perfect goodies and friends of ours

If I could make money just writing? I would totally be into that. But instead, I decided to start a business. In a foreign country. That is a multi-national bear, that employees a team of 23 people who keep everything humming along.

AND SINCE IT IS THE HOLIDAYS, I need you to bear with me for this post. I need to actually promote the things we do and make and sell. Because…I have 23 people I want to keep gainfully employed. And like, you like me, and you like the stuff we do. So come and play ok?

And frankly? YOU are our biggest fans, which means you know the exact people to gift these sorts of gifts to. And honestly? I am not so good at the ‘hey look at me buy my stuff’ thing. BUT I AM THE CEO! AND I AM HERE TO DO EXACTLY THAT!

SO! How can you have a very merry holiday season with me and my team at Okay, Perfect?

Here are 9 ABSOLUTELY PERFECT (literally perfect) gifts for the food lover in your life. I’ve even categorised them into who they are for, because I am nice like that. ;)

For the passionate home cook, who can never get enough learning and wants to improve their skills with friends….

A YEAR LONG MEMBERSHIP to RECIPEKICK, our online cookery school that is a WHOLE LOTTA FUN! I mean, it’s live TV but from kitchens around the world.

If you haven’t discovered RecipeKick yet? Now is the time, did you know you can join 100% for free to watch the livestreams? YUP! You can. BUT ALSO, you can be a paid member or gift it to someone.

We took the Courageous Cooking Method ONLINE, and taught 10 instructors from around the world how to teach you to cook without recipes, and encourage creative problem solving in the kitchen. A ONE YEAR membership is $699, and includes:

A year long membership includes:

-At least 5 LIVE classes a week, and hundreds of recorded classes
-A Chef’s Knife from MadeIn (Squeeeeee! It’s one of our favourites)
-One of our GORGEOUS Aprons (in Turmeric orange or French Blue)
-A Curio Secret Spice Society Membership (Monthly secret spice shipped to their door).

If you gift a year long membership to RecipeKick, I’ll throw-in THREE year long memberships to this newsletter, just email me after you purchase. One for yourself, and two to give away. (That’s four gifts in one) BAMALAM!

For the Avid Reader and Experimenter who only cooks once or twice a week:

A YEAR LONG MEMBERSHIP to this newsletter!

With a backlog of recipes, and a recipe or three a month? This is a great gift. :) If you gift a membership to someone, I’ll give you a bonus membership for free. (Again, just message me here and I’ll get you sorted).

For the person who does not understand what good quality olive oil is, and you’re ready to BLOW THEIR MIND:

Get them a Graza subscription. Sure it will cost you $30-ish dollars a month, but your friend will think of you every. time. they. cook. This is like the best kind of gift you can give someone. They will a) finally understand good olive oil. b) Will be obsessed with the fact that it’s in a squeeze bottle. I live in the CAPITAL of good olive oil, and I still buy Graza. And ship to to France. Literally. (Mostly just the drizzle is worth shipping to France for me, but I like them both, frankly.) We have a discount code for $5 off a one-off purchase, too: OKAYPERFECT

For the person who already cooks pretty darn good, but needs to boost their flavor profiles?

How about a Complete Collection of Burlap and Barrel spices?!??!?!

While it’s a BIG collection, it is worth every. single. penny. It’s a complete pantry reset, and I am a BIG fan. I purchased the complete collection once a few years ago, and my cooking transformed OVERNIGHT, quite literally. I literally can’t imagine cooking without single-origin spices anymore. (For many reasons, but flavor is a big one)

For people who like secret societies and surprises that are also tasty as hell?

A membership to Curios Spice Company’s Secret Spice Society. I have THREE of these memberships, like literally. Because I love it that much, and every time I get a new blend or spice from them, I am just OVERJOYED. So I have three. That all come to my house. And I adore it. (I generally hate surprises, but I like this one)

For the person who always wanted to go to culinary school, but can’t justify the time away from work/life/etc. and is really wanting to improve their cooking dramatically?

A Trip to the Courageous Cooking School in 2025. We’re booking our last full-season at La Peetch, and while the Cooking School isn’t cheap, it is less expensive than culinary school, and will actually change the lives and cooking of the people you gift it too. Literally. I know this because we have hundreds of graduates who can now develop a dish, from scratch, from any market, anywhere in the world.

AND it includes a forever membership to RecipeKick, which is pretty cool. (And we’ll send them a custom knife, two different spice memberships, and a bunch of other nifty things. It’s like 8 presents in one. And will literally be the best gift they have ever received.

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For the cook in your life that likes things a bit sour, but also quite bespoke and handmade?

Tart Vinegar Club membership. It’s not shipping until 2024, but I was a member last year and I cannot recommend it anymore highly than I do. I adore the vinegars, sure. And the 10% discount to use year-round? Awesome. But for me, it’s really the magic of getting goodies that no one else has access too.

For the person that has it all AND the gifter wants to join the giftee in a magical week of friendship, and food?:

Come stay at La Pitchoune for a week. We’ll spoil you silly. Introduce you to new wines. And we have daily housekeeping.

We can sleep up to 8 adults. We’ve got just SEVEN weeks left to book in 2024. One of them could be yours? (I mean, who doesn’t want a serviced vacation rental vacay in 2024?)

TREAT YO’SELF to some new cookware that will last eons if treated correctly?

LOOK AT THE GLEE ON MY FACE opening the new set I bought for myself for Christmas? It arrived VERY fast. For all paid subscribers here, I have a little code after the paywall. It’s good for 15% off, all the time, so basically it pays for itself to be a member here.

Here’s my last pitch for you to join the paid side of the magic here. This is the recipe coming next week. A green shakshuka (with approximately 1,000,000 green ingredients in it) that is literally so good, I have made it THRICE since I developed it last week.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! And I’ll post the recipe soooooooooon. MADEIN discount is below for paid subscribers. <3