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The Official Meal Plan of COOK90 2020
This year's month-long cooking challenge is heavy on vegetables, big on grains, and features weekend recipes from some of the best food writers in the world.

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Everything You Need to Make Your Own Gourmet Food Basket
Because gift baskets are the essence of class and fanciness.


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It’s Not Eggnog, It's Ponche a Crème
There are many reasons to love this rum drink, a Trinidadian Christmas tradition.


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49 Best Christmas Punch and Batch Cocktail Recipes
Turn up the festivity factor at any holiday party with these Champagne punches, boozy riffs on hot chocolate, non-alcoholic sippers, and more.

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A Gift for Every Overly-Ambitious New Year’s Resolution
For the person who's about to clog your feed with green smoothies and the person who wants to Instagram more cheese boards.

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The COOK90 2020 Starter Guide
Our January cooking challenge is back. And this year it'll not only improve your own personal cooking world—it will improve the world at large.

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The Best Gifts for Cooking Dads of All Levels
We let 25 real-life dads sound off on what they really want for the holidays. Not one of them asked for a whiskey stone.

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What Epi's Senior Food Editor, Anna Stockwell, Wants for Christmas
Including beeswax candles for all your holiday parties and slippers to make all of your cooking cozy.

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The 11 Best Sustainable Stocking Stuffers
Beautiful reusable napkins. A reusable coffee filter. And an alternative to plastic baggies.

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What Epi's Site Director, David Tamarkin, Wants for Hanukkah
In case you have a sustainably-minded bread obsessive in your life.

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How to Make a Yule Log or Bûche de Noël
The mushrooms look so real, your little sister will refuse to eat them.

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10 Cocktail Books That Make Great Gifts
Because cocktail lovers could always use a new drink in their glass.

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The Best Cookbooks to Give Everyone On Your List
There's no better gift than a collection of recipes from the pros.

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Smart Cookies: 6 Bold New Moves for Holiday Baking
Easy tricks for bolder, better cookies.

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47 Quick and Easy Appetizers and Hors d'Oeuvres for Your Holiday Party
Have actual fun at your own party by simplifying the snacks.

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6 Items Our Readers Bought on Black Friday and Cyber Monday (That're Still On Sale!)
It was mostly Instant Pots, to be honest!

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The Epicurious Gift Guide for Cooks, Dinner Party Enthusiasts, and Food Lovers
A transcendent soy sauce, skillets that are as beautiful as they are practical, and a little Japanese knife that will become a kitchen prep essential.

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87 of Our Best Hanukkah Recipes
We encourage you to eat enough latkes to become a human potato.