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     We list a select few food-gift sites that sound especially good, especially unusual, or especially reasonable in price, which last is not something food gift sites are noted for. We also list sites for some homemade gifts you can make.

Cajun Shop Cajun food gifts, natch. Which means Cajun gourmet gift baskets, Cajun seasonings, and those wonderful Cajun turduckens.

Caramel Cookie Waffles Dutch Stroopwafels (caramel cookie waffles) can be ordered from this Billings, Montana, bakery and shipped wherever. You want to give "something different"? Stroopwafels are different.

Caribbean Connection Lists many Caribbean food products for sale, including really authentic jerk seasoning.

Casa de Fruta Specializes in healthy gift items, such as "roasted and salted California pistachios, California fancy dried apricots, golden almond and macadamia nut caramel corn, Casa de Fruta P-Nutty Brittle, butter toffee peanuts and orange Honey Almonds."

Coffee From New Orleans They advertise, "Coffees from every growing region roasted to perfection. Sweet, dark New Orleans French Roasts, Signature Blends, Organic and Fair Trade coffees, deep, rich Coffee and Chicory, a large selection of delicious Flavored Coffees,Decaf Flavored Coffees, and Decaf Coffees." They sell gift boxes. Frankly, I picked this site because they include "Fair Trade coffees." Fair Trade coffee reimburses the growers who actually do the work at a fair rate, rather than offering them the pittance large operations generally do. Fair Trade coffee is of exceptionally high quality, as it is grown in the shade of the tropical forest, thus saving the forest while enabling the workers to earn a fair wage.

David's Cookies This site mails gift cookies. They have a "cookie of the month club," which is an idea for your human vacuum cleaner away in college. Or perhaps you'd like someone to think favorable thoughts about you every single month of the year. This might do it -- assuming they're not trying to lose weight.

Epicurean Foods A Canadian site set up to ship both to the U.S. and Canada. They say, "We produce and distribute over 200 of our own unique gourmet foods and gifts. Flavoured oils & vinegars, wine-based pastas and sauces, exotic dip mixes & seasonings, unusual flavoured teas, specialty olives, hearty soup mixes, decadent chocolates and authentic Canadian maple syrup are just some of the treasures that await you."

Food Gifts Made At Home This site has birthday gift ideas as well as holiday gift ideas.

Food Gifts You Can Make "Jar Cakes, Jar Mixes, Food Gifts From the Kitchen."

Gorton's Fresh Seafood They say, "From Live Maine Lobsters to King Crab Legs, you'll find a truly distinctive seafood selection. Ideal for gift giving, special occasions or just everyday good eating." As the name implies, their seafood is shipped fresh, never frozen. They also furnish recipes for preparing the seafood you buy on their site.

Grandma's Pantry Which is in no way your grandma's pantry, or mine. It does have recipes, but its chief feature is a list of sites, such as Hickory Farms, from which you can order gift food.

Homemade Food Gifts Why force a live lobster on poor old Aunt Elsie? Give her some cookie mix you've made yourself.

Insane Chicken Motto: "Taste The Insanity." Insane Chicken specializes in hot sauces and barbecue sauces. They offer gift certificates mailed electronically. They cleverly point out that, if you need a last-minute gift for someone, you can quickly whomp one up electronically at www.insanechicken.com. Why, you could conceivably do this on Christmas Day, after you notice that every guest but one has a gift. Just creep away to the computer, and presto! (At least I hope it would work that way.)

Lasater Grasslands Beef According to their site, "Lasater Grasslands Beef is great tasting and full of flavor because our cattle are finished on grass; they spend their entire lives grazing in open pastures and are never confined in feedlots and fed grain. They are not given growth hormones, are not fed low-level antibiotics and are not treated with pesticides. That means the goodness of nature comes through in the taste of our beef." I gave some of their steaks to my husband for Christmas, and he says they are WONDERFUL!

Maryland Crabs To Go They offer hard-shell crabs, soft-shell crabs, crab cakes, Gulf shrimp, and Maine lobster tails. Plus oysters, clams, and New England clam chowder. Their soups come in cans; the other products, so far as can tell, are all fresh rather than frozen. They offer the crabs live or steamed!

Pacific Rim Gourmet They have great gift ideas for the gourmet cook who likes Asian food, with "hard-to-find kitchenware such as woks, bamboo steamers, rice baskets, mortars and pestles, sushi supplies and more." They also have a stunning collection of teapots. Mostly classic Chinese and Japanese pottery but some unusual pieces.

Popcornopolis Many flavors of gift popcorn at reasonable prices.

Tex-Mex To Go They offer "Gourmet Mexican Food Gift Boxes" at reasonable prices.

See's Candies I began giving these unusually good California chocolates as Christmas gifts in the sixties and still give them today. When I left California there was a "dead" decade without See's. Then I mentioned them to a woman at work in Washington, D.C., she told me about their catalog, and we were back in business. Warning: give these candies once, and the recipients will ask for them every year.

Sunburst Trout Trout in many forms, including trout caviar and cold-smoked trout. A good choice for the health conscious and weight conscious.

Zchocolat Luxury chocolate gifts. They say, "zChocolat.com is committed to elevating the art of gift giving to a new level of personal expression -- one of imagination, intelligence, and elegance -- and one that assures that the giver will make a grand and lasting impression."