A Wish List Filled with Food

Terri Procopio with a basket of her homemade gifts.

Five gift ideas that you can make in your kitchen

By Shawndra Miller Photos by Erica Sagon

If there’s one kind of gift that can bring cheer to everyone on your list—from hostesses and bosses to neighbors and the members of your book club—it’s the edible kind. At the moment, it feels right to roll up our sleeves, make food from scratch and hand over the delicious results as presents.

For inspiration on do-it-yourself foodthemed gifts, we turned to Terri Procopio of Indianapolis, the sort of intrepid cook who whips up homemade Worcestershire sauce just for the sheer challenge of it. Procopio especially likes to create gifts that began as seeds sown in her own soil.

“It’s fun to personalize gift giving, and it feels better than running out to the store,” she says.

Here, Procopio shares a few ideas that any home cook can borrow for the holidays.