Gifts and Gift-Giving

Creeping Willo

A Chow Bella Holiday Round-up: Gift Guides, Eating Christmas, and More

Christmas is almost here, but luckily we still have a couple more days to get those last minute gifts and to finalize our holiday plans. If you're looking for some guidance, Chow Bella's got you covered. See Also: - Chow Bella's 12 Most Popular Phoenix Food and Restaurant Stories of 2012 Nine Ba ... More >>

Crafts-Style

Wrapping Up Your Homemade Food Gifts, Thanks to Pinterest

All right. So you've made a bunch of gifts from scratch, and still have about a dozen cookie parties to attend, but you're sick of generic holiday tins and you don't know what to do. Let's face it, presentation is key. Presentation (and ingredients, of course) is the difference between cupcakes fro ... More >>

Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Mom

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Mom. See also: - Jackalope Ranch's Gift Guide for the Mom - Chow Bella's ... More >>

Top 10 Things to NOT Give a Cook This Holiday Season: AndyTalk

See Also: AndyTalk: Toaster Envy AndyTalk: Top 10 Things for the Cook in Your Life Holiday gifts for people who like to cook should be easy, but to the uninitiated a store stocked floor to ceiling with cookware is an obstacle course. The goal is to buy a gift that brings joy to someone who finds j ... More >>

Junie-ism

A Dimebag Darrell Playlist (Just In Time For The Holidays)

Sometimes it can be difficult to get pumped up for the holidays, especially nowadays, when the sacred dates are saturated with commercialism, consumer greed, and an importance on tradition that, unfortunately for many, lost its spiritual meaning a long time ago. See also: Your Holiday Heavy Metal ... More >>

Five Things to Buy at Phoestivus This Wednesday, Dec. 12

In preparation for the next round of Phoestivus on December 12th from 4 to 8:30 p.m., we assembled a list of some of our favorite finds and must grab classics in our quest to shop local this holiday season. If you head on over to Phoenix Public Market and can make it past the food trucks and beer ga ... More >>

Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Wine Lover

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the wine lover. See also: - Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Beer Lover - Cho ... More >>

Foodista Natalie Morris Offers Her Own 12-Days-of-Christmas Locavore Gift-Guide

On the off chance we haven't provided you with enough holiday gift-giving ideas for every conceivable kind of food and drink-oriented person in the universe (did we overlook the gluten-free, nut-allergic grill-master on the Paleo diet?), we thought we'd hook you up with local food maven Natalie Morr ... More >>

Cocktail Lovers' Anti-Gift Guide: What NOT To Get

Ring the bell, it's time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady's, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. There are some really cool stocking stuffers for aspiring bartenders. T ... More >>

Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Bachelor

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Bachelor. Oh to live the bachelor lifestyle, where 20 is the new 30, f ... More >>

Santa Swarm

Three Holiday Liqueurs You Can Make at Home

See also: Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Aspiring Bartender See also: Make Puerto Rican Egg Nog Now, Enjoy It Later I'm officially committed to making all of my gifts this year. I blame Pinterest. And while I don't expect you to make everything yourself too, I do urge you to explore a little. ... More >>

The Friendly Ghosts

Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Hipster

What? Not done with your holiday shopping? Yeah, neither are we. But we've been making lists -- and checking them twice -- and we've got some suggestions for the nice people on your list. Today, Chow Bella's Gift Guide for the Hipster. All right, we're going to preface this gift guide with a smal ... More >>

Wonky Architecture Stands Out Against the Bland

Wonder-Wall

Live Strong

Ruth Reichl's Top Gifts for Food Lovers on Gilt Taste

​We can't think of a better place to "window shop" for online foodstuffs than Gilt Taste. Ruth Reichl is the editorial advisor for this new-ish member of the Gilt Groupe family. She's also the author of this month's Chow Bella Book Club Selection. We wanted to explore more about Gilt Ta ... More >>

AndyTalk: Top 10 Things Not to Give a Cook

Last, if you live with the cook in question, don't buy an appliance that makes something you love and want made for you. In this case, buying me a waffle iron so I can make you waffles isn't really a gift for me - it's for you.

All-Tempa-Cheer

Royal Icing

Wrapped Goodness: The Twelve Tamales of Christmas from Los Sombreros

Here at Chow Bella, we understand how important it is to give (and receive) the perfect foodie gift. So this season, we're helping out by offering 21 food- and drink-focused gift suggestions, one each work day until Christmas, from a local business or provider. You get scads of rock-star ideas, the ... More >>

This Week In Chow Bella

Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let's have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Jennifer Woods, What Are You Baking? 5 Pre-Order Holiday Meals for Procrastina ... More >>

Haute Stuff

From Russia with love

Small My Love

The cutest art show in the land

Arty Girl: Last Minute Shopping at Art One

Look, everyone...Christmas is saved!​Since we've thrown Art One a Best of Phoenix Award and we've written articles like these, it's really no secret that our editorial staff is totally rooting for Art One to pull through this recession.And why wouldn't we? Owner Kraig Foote has an incredible eye f ... More >>

Top 5: Worst Gifts for Foodies

Avoid this.​We love to cook. We love good food. So why do people claiming to understand our passion give us Chili's gift cards, elf aprons and used chocolate body paint? It's not their fault, really. They just need a little help. That's why, this holiday season, we've done the dirty work for you a ... More >>

Vayden

Red Hot Robot Holiday Sale and Party

Glendale Glitters Opening Weekend

Alternative Christmas Gift Market

Lock and Load, Lovebirds

You’ll never buy flowers again

The Prize is Right

Holiday Smear

Santa and sangria at Retro Redux