Gift Ideas for Traveling Gourmets
They live to travel, they travel to eat.
Danny Kim1/13MAKR Bottle Key
Lighters, CDs, wedding rings—they’ll do the trick, but a brass bottle opener blends right in with the rest of their keys. ($11; makr.com)
Danny Kim2/13Canon Powershot G16
Serious food photography calls for a serious camera. With built-in WiFi, this one lets them wirelessly upload their drool-worthy shots straight to the web. ($550; shop.usa.canon.com)
Danny Kim3/13Fold-Down Coffee Drip
For caffeine fiends, a collapsible dripper is a loyal travel companion in café-deprived backwaters. ($30; snowpeak.com)
Danny Kim4/13Bicycle Wine Rack
This handsome leather rack lets them secure bottles—wine, water, or otherwise—to their bike frame for safe transporting. ($34; oopsmark.ca)
Danny Kim5/13Grosvenor Hardbound Collection Book
Rather than torture the world with updates on Twitter, they can log their every breakfast, lunch, dinner, and street eat in this fuchsia leather food journal. ($330; smythson.com)
Danny Kim6/13Mobile Foodie Survival Kit
In a pinch (or on the road), a portable spice rack works culinary magic on less-than-appetizing entrees. ($26; uncommongoods.com)
Danny Kim7/13Izola Canoe Collapsible Travel Cup
Wherever they are in the world, a shot glass is just a flick of the wrist away. ($18; patinastores.com)
Danny Kim8/13Restoration Hardware Mini Espresso Maker
An no-electric brewer lets them prepare one cup at a time—even in the middle of nowhere. ($49; rh.com)
Danny Kim9/13Scrappy’s Bitters
True emergency preparedness means enhancing one’s airplane tipple with a dash or two from a petite set of travel bitters. ($17; cocktailkingdom.com)
Danny Kim10/13Poler X Stumptown Camp Coffee Kit
A collaboration between two Portland, Oregon-based companies, this custom satchel is stocked with enamel mugs, a Porlex burr grinder, an Aeropress brewer, and anything else they’d need for a freshly brewed cup of wilderness coffee. ($125; polerstuff.com)
Danny Kim11/13J’Aime New York
Alain Ducasse’s ode to one of the world’s most vibrant food cities is equal parts photo scrapbook, love letter, and gourmand must-hit list. ($45; Stewart, Tabori & Chang)
Danny Kim12/13Ganji Kankiri Can/Bottle Opener
When they’re stranded in rural who-knows-where, they’ll be grateful for this two-in-one hunk of metal. ($16; bestmadeco.com)
Danny Kim13/13Wilouby International Slimline Flask
Nothing cures travel woes like a swig from this extra-slender flask, whose neon leather exterior makes it easy to spot in a crammed suitcase. ($29; uupto.com)
