The Best Food Gifts for Mother’s Day

Wonder Valley’solive oilis one of our favorites. It’s peppery but still smooth and balanced — lovely to drizzle on finished dishes, use as a base for salad dressings, or dip bread into.

Chris Crawford, the founder of Tart (and a mom herself), makes some of the most nuanced, balanced, unexpected, and all-around wonderful raw vinegars you can buy. The celery variety was her first (it tastes so incredibly fresh), but there areseveral other choices, too, including a limited-runperilla.

Give her coffee — but with the added bonus of beautiful chocolate bars. Driftaway’s boxes pair select roasts (which you can get whole bean or ground) with offerings from Raaka Chocolate. They’re meant to go well together, but we won’t tell if she starts the day with one and ends it with the other.

Here’s another sweet pairing. This one includes Té Company’s oolong — which happens to be avid tea-drinker and Strategist senior editorWinnie Yang’s favorite — plus a box of the shop’s signature pineapple linzer cookies. You can choose from loose leaf or sachets, depending on how how mom brews.

Kettl sells many beautiful varieties ofmatcha powder. This is one of its higher-end offerings, which they describe as remarkably rich, smooth, and fresh — but you canbrowse others, too. If you want a nice pairing, give mom a bar of Kettl’s gorgeousmatcha chocolatealong with this tin. Or if you really want to go all out,this subscriptionwill have single cultivars and vintages of special matcha powders shipped to her door every month.

Brightland is best known for its olive oils, but it also makes a lovely honey that comes from bees on single-estate orange groves.

Sfoglini pasta is 100 percent organic and made in Brooklyn. With a subscription (shipped every three months), the mom in your life gets six boxes per quarter (for six months or a full year) of the brand’s signature shapes. Each delivery comes with recipe cards to inspire delicious meals.

Giadzy, Giada De Laurentiis’s line of Italian pantry staples, is quite cute (A+ packaging makes for A+ presents) and also quite delicious. Choose from singular ingredients or pick one of her curated boxes for particular recipes like cacio e pepe, Calabrian chile pasta, and this sheet-pan lasagna.

These compressed salt discs from Jacobsen Salt Co. (a company that, generally speaking, makes delicious salt) take the guesswork out of adding the ingredient to water when boiling pasta or blanching vegetables. There are even ratios listed on the jar, which will practically guarantee that her food tastes more vibrant than ever.

This white-truffle-studded jar of salt is a beauty. (The brand freeze-dries the truffles and mixes them in.) While it’s small, a little goes a long way, so she’ll savor it for months to come.

Big Night has put together a very nice collection of staples, all of which are made by women. It includes Cabi Dashi Soy Sauce, Diaspora Co. Aranya Black Pepper, Brightland Champagne Vinegar, two Spring & Mulberry chocolate bars, Earl Grey tea from Flowerhead, and Big Night’s own nutty, seedy sprinkle made in collaboration with Deliverance (whose delicious granola you’ll find lower down in this guide).

Okay, so this isn’tstrictlyfood — but this stunning box includes a luscious bottle of olive oil (worthy of drizzling only) and a decadent jar of honey. Plus, there’s fancy hand soap, body wash, and a candle all in gorgeous earthy scents.

If she lives outside of a few particular states, chances are that good avocados are hard to come by. In those cases, there’s nothing better than a delivery of pristine ones straight from California. They’re in season right now (and won’t be for too much longer) — so take advantage of the moment.

This swirly, braided loaf is considered one of the best in New York City (and is beloved by more than one Strategist staffer). Pro tip: If she can’t eat it all right away, she can slice and freeze pieces to heat up later.

The curated Mother’s Day package from Russ & Daughters is a nice choice, whether you’re sending it to her or seeing her in person (imagine showing up at her door with such a great spread!). It includes smoked salmon, plain cream cheese, and a tin of wild Alaskan salmon roe, along with bagels and — okay, one sweet thing — rugalach.

Getting a delivery of baked goods is definitely exciting, but if she tends to like things simpler (or if you want to do most of the cooking yourself), this sampler of jams comes with three lovely flavors: cherry chai, blueberry sumac, and strawberry lemongrass.

Strategist senior writerLauren Roloves regional treats and says that this cake would make a great gift for any occasion or just for everyday eating (you can freeze it for up to six months). “It’s definitely very sweet, as it’s basically just cake and caramel, but it’s packaged beautifully, thaws and presents well, and feels festive,” Ro says.

This Italian amaro is a deeply nutty, slightly bitter, entirely sippable bottle that will also happen to look beautiful on her bar cart. If she needs a cocktail idea,take a page fromcookbook author Odette Williams, who uses it to make a paper plane: equal parts amaro, lemon juice, Aperol, and bourbon. It’s a perfect drink.

NYC’s famed Via Carota makes fully ready-to-drink cocktails in bottles worthy of her bar cart. There are classics, like anegroni,martini, andold-fashioned— but I think the single-serving spritzes are especially nice for springtime.

St. Agrestis’s nonalcoholic cocktails are really delicious. You may have seen the brand’s Phony Negroni around before (it’s the one most commonly stocked at shops) — but this starter pack includes three other styles that mom will love too.

Thissommelier-approvedsubscription ships a monthly selection of natural wines that she most likely won’t have tried before. Subscriptions start at $90 for three bottles per delivery, and she can always take over paying if she loves it and you don’t want to foot the bill for an entire year.

Murray’s knows how to curate acheese board, and this one made especially for Mother’s Day is sure to be a treat. It has six different kinds, including a Brie-inspired Vermont variety and a spice-coated, truffle-studded wedge. Andit should go without saying that the whole thing would pair quite nicely with a glass or two ofwine.

RTG is the largest online tinned-fish shop with trulyso many good packagesto choose from. (You can also buy tins individually.) This onealsohas jarred olives and onions, which means mom can set up a perfect snack board. Just add crackers.

If she likes the finer things in life (and you have the budget), she’ll love this trio of caviars from Pearl Street. It comes with 12-gram tins each of Keluga, Ossetra, and Siberian Select. She can enjoy them right away with all the accompaniments they send, too (chives, chips, crème fraîche, and a tiny mother-of-pearl spoon), or save the tins for a few weeks to break out on an occasion.

Even if she’s an avid cook, chances are her spice cabinet could use a refresh. No set will get the job done better than this collection of ethically sourced spices. Trust us: They taste better than anything she’d buy at the grocery store. If you really want to go all out, consider adding aspice grinderto go along with.

Grown in California, Rancho Meladuco’s Medjool dates have a reputation as some of the best you can find — way better than in any clamshell package she’d snag from the grocery store. Sweet and plump, they’re perfect for adding to salads, setting out on acheese board, or snacking straight from the box.

Shatila Bakery is a Detroit-area institution known for its sweet and gorgeous baklava. This stunner of a gift box is full of assorted varieties like pistachio-and-cashew burmas, orange-scented basma, and crispy ballourie made with shredded filo.

Laurie Ellen is a baker (formerly of San Francisco’s famed Tartine) who turns out seasonal packs of shortbread cookies that she sells online. She sources ingredients from some of our favorite companies — including Burlap & Barrel, Heilala Vanilla, and Murray’s Cheese (all of which make an appearance on this list). This two-pack includes chocolate-orange and jasmine-green-tea varieties. You can select the shipping option that will arrive right in time for Mother’s Day.

Laurie Ellenisn’t the only pro bakerwho turns to Heilala for her vanilla. Not only does the company work closely with farmers in Tonga to ensure sustainable growing and fair labor practices, the vanilla simply tastes better than the extract you find at the grocery store. The paste comes close to a real vanilla bean as you can get without all of the work (or the steep price) and it’s studded with flecks that will make anything Mom bakes stand out.

San Francisco–based Dandelion Chocolate makes some of the most elegant sweets around. This Tokyo Gâteaux — which I would describe as somewhere between a cake and a fudge — is fantastically rich and silky. A thin slice goes a long away, but it lasts a month in the fridge (and three months in the freezer).

Go all out with this showstopping chocolate basket — yes, an actual edible basket — filled with bite-size truffles, buttery caramels, and chocolate fruits from California. Your order will arrive in time if you choose expedited shipping at checkout.

Deux Cranes makes chocolate, candy, and cookies that look like art. This package, curated for Mother’s Day, is filled with four fruity spring bonbons, a trio of matcha chocolate bars, and a trio of cookies (pistachio rose, dark chocolate with Kokutō pecan, and lemon thyme with lavender marshmallow).

Chef and writer Lauren Joseph uses thispreserved lemon paste(essentially whole preserved lemons that have been blended to a smooth consistency) whisked into yogurt dips, on top of meats, in cakes, and in cocktails. Talk about versatile.

Botanica is a lovely Los Angeles–based restaurant that also operates a market out of its space. This collection of goodies includes dukkah, chile oil, preserved local lemons, homemade granola, a versatile spice blend, plus stand-alone jars of sumac, pimentón dulce, and za’atar.

Nuts.com is generally very fun — and building mom a custom box even more so. Choose from 26 savory and sweet treats to create a box of six favorites like sesame sticks, chocolate-covered peanuts, honey-roasted cashews, and caramel-coated popcorn.

Strategist senior writerLiza Corsilloreceived this granola pack as a gift after her baby was born — and she loved it so much she bought more to gift to a friend shortly after. She says the flavors are all great, and this bundle will let you taste each one: turmeric and super seed; sour cherry and pistachio rose; strawberry and salty peanut; and blueberry and sunflower butter.

Receiving a giant box of specialty citrusis truly a joy. Pearson Ranch (a family-run citrus farm in Porterville, California, in the San Joaquin Valley) sells boxes of Meyer lemons, limes, limequats, kumquats, Ojai Pixies, blood oranges, mandarins, yuzu, and more. The fruit is top-notch — juicy and plump with a mix of ripenesses, so she doesn’t have to use it all at once. Shipping times vary depending on where you live, so pay attention at checkout.