Kitchen Geek Gifts For The Winter Holidays

Literary Teas by Simpson and Vale (Screencaps via Simpson and Vale)

Kitchen Geek Gifts For Bookworms

Books and kitchens are the perfect pair. Nothing says cozy like a good book, a hot cup of tea, and a plate of fresh biscuits (that’s cookies in American).

This cookbook, Tea with Jane Austen: Recipes Inspired by Her Novels and Letters , is full of recipes for the mouthwatering English baked goods mentioned in her books. This would be a great gift along with this Jane Austen novels tea pot.

Turn any book club meeting into a tea party (the kind with hot drinks and dainty snacks, not a populist political movement) Alice in Wonderland tea sets, like this one from Reutter Porcelain.

Fill their cups with literary teas from Simpson & Vail. They make black tea blends named for Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare. There’s also Beatrix Potter’s Herbal Tisane Blend, green tea blends for Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson’s Jasmine Tea Blend. Try all 12 with the Literary Tea sampler gift pack, or go for a four-tin sampler.

The Literary Gift Company makes these unique kitchen ceramics for the booklover’s dinner table. These book shaped dishes, mugs, and cups and saucers are perfect for the holidays and all year ‘round.

For your more morbid friends and relations, there’s a full selection of Edward Gorey mugs and magnets at the official Gorey House store.

There are many mugs to choose from for your book-loving friends: Shakespeare’s plays, Shakespearean insults, Dickens characters, banned books, and even a glow-in-the-dark Sherlock 221B Baker Street mug that I think is supposed to look like the detective’s front door.

Hey it’s author’s night, this place looks like a who’s who!