EGGY HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
From our Egg family to yours, here is a selection of gifts we’ve got our eye on as well as some we’ve cooked up ourselves for the holiday season. Happy holidays! Support your local independent magazines and artists!
Lilac Liqueur from Olde York Farm
Olde York Farm lilac liqueur is made from the flowers that grow around their Hudson Valley distillery. It's surprising and fun to splash into seltzer or sparkling wine. Oldeyorkfarm.com, $34
Facture Goods
Facture Goods has a bunch of cool shit for your house! Decorate with hand-formed clay mushrooms or pick up the luxe dual-purpose herb stripper cheese knife. Cause man, one of the worst holiday chores is getting all the thyme leaves off the stems. Facturegoods.com, $18-$60
Emma Repp Prints
Emma Repp's giclee prints are cool AF. We can get down with an artist who believes a plate of spaghetti is “just a snack”. Emmarepp.com, $25-$35
Pizza Party from Cactus Club
For the pizza lover in your life, get them this party print from Cactus Club. Similarly shaped, they also have a dope watermelon patch. Cactusclubpaper.com, $25
Handmade Brooms from Sunhouse
Growing up, my nickname, Ting-Ting, meant broom. And holy crap, I love these affordable brooms from Sunhouse Craft! A small one is perfect for the counter and can hang from a hook to sweep up crumbs and cuttings without wasting a paper towel. Sunhousecraft.com, $7-$35
–Jenn de la Vega, Editor-at-Large
Subscription to Put A Egg On It
Buy a subscription to Put A Egg On it for all your loved ones and get free shipping in the US! If you order for the holidays, we’ll include a cutie gift card. PAEOI, $20 for one year.
Fried Egg Pendant
We collaborated with jewelry designer Carl Priolo of Sofia Jewelry to create a sterling silver fried egg pendant with a yellow enamel yolk on a 16″ sterling silver cable chain. Each necklace comes with the current issue of the magazine, too! PAEOI, $75
Goat Milk Caramels from Big Picture Farms
I was introduced to these caramels a few years ago at Murray’s Cheese in the West Village. The goat milk adds this incredible tang that always surprises friends. I am a huge fan of the classic sea salt vanilla flavor, and love the adorable gift boxes you can buy them in. They even have special holiday boxes this year featuring gold foil and funny little seasonal illustrations. Bigpicturefarm.com, $5- $55
Reusable Bags from Baggu
Perfect for stocking stuffers or to fill out gift baskets, these bags come in three sizes (from lunch sack to all the greens you’d need for Thanksgiving dinner), and have the best prints! I really like that the bag they fold down into doesn’t have a zipper, so I don’t have to worry about it breaking or catching on the bag’s fabric and tearing a hole. I’m a big fan of the lox plate, daikon, and apple tree prints for this year. Baggu.com, $10-$15
Large Plate and Mug from Departo
I love these ceramics for hostess gifts. The price point is great, so you can get a few pieces and pair them with a thoughtful snack to look like a very considerate houseguest. This year, I’m upping my cookie plate game by giving them on Departo’s large plates in either mushroom or slate gray instead of the plastic disposable ones from the dollar store I’ve used years past. I’m also pairing the mug in chalk with a fancy hot chocolate mix I picked up at L.A. Burdick (one of my gift recs last year!) for the chocolate obsessives in my life/ loved ones with trickier food allergies. Departo.co, $24
–Heather Clark, Senior Editor
Mmm Boy Hat
This soft butter yellow adjustable cap with Ralph McGinnis’ Mmm Boy drawing, the mascot of Put A Egg On It, embroidered on the front is our favorite new piece of PAEOI clothing. Get yours, PAEOI, $30.
Tony’s Chocolonely
I love food. I love to eat. So I’m serious about my snacks—which is why I believe you should stock all the stockings with Tony’s chocolate bars. Tonyschocolonely.com, $5.99
–Arthur Julio Nelson, Contributor
Chapulines from Merci Mercados
For your culinary peeps who have every high-end edible adornment, spice things up this year with…bugs! Chapulines represent a centuries-old tradition in Mexican cuisine and have now entered into the global conversation regarding sustainable proteins. This little Mexican company sources grasshoppers and red-worms from the Central Valley of Oaxaca to create deliciously crunchy snacks and seasonings—as in, yes, they make insect-flavored cocktail salts too, but I say go straight for the bug itself. merci-mercado.myshopify.com, $9-$155
Vegan Chocolates from Lagusta’s Luscious
Honestly, these candies are life-changing. Deeply decadent and wonderfully curated, LL’s holiday collections are a spot-on gift for your festive, dairy-free, sweet-tooth pals. I find the Festival of Lights box to be especially awesome, including (but not limited to) a handful of specialty latke bonbons and a spin-able chocolate dreidel! lagustasluscious.com, $55
–Carlin Brito, Contributor
EGG shirts!
We’ve got two new shirts this year, Ralph McGinnis’ Eat At Joes in white ink silk-screened on black and the Mmm Boy in the PAEOI green on a white shirt. Sizes S-L available. PAEOI, $25.
Soy Mujerista
A zine from the Mujerista Collective that features twenty-five Latina artists and writers across the United States. It’s full of great drawings and photos and comes in both English and Spanish versions. mujeristascollective.com $15
A Pie, Sardines, and Oysters
These tiny lovely prints from artist John Broadley come as a set of three digital prints on 300 gsm gesso paper, loosely mounted on 20cm x 24cm board. Limited to an edition of 49. johnbroadley.bigcartel.com $25
Waffle House! Zine
A colorful Riso zine celebrating the joys of Waffle House, a beloved chain of breakfast restaurants. I have many fond memories of eating here on various road trips. moonwalkerclub, $10
Sichuan Chili Crisp by Fly by Jing
I have been putting this on everything lately — eggs, rice, ramen, soup, pizza. It’s spicy, nutty, a little sweet and beyond good. flybyjing.com, $15
Charcoal grid linen placemats by Magic Linen
These soft linen placemats in a pleasing graph paper-esque design make my table seem much more put together for dinner. Magic Linen also has a bunch of other colors and patterns. Magic Linen, $27 for a set of 4.
–Simon Forbes Keough, editor