One can always give out a cookbook but it's hard to find books in which your intended will actually USE. Asian food lovers rejoice, there is a great cookbook series.
Periplus Editions wants you to experience Asian food the way a person living there would. The publishing house has a collection of about a dozen Authentic Recipes From .... cookbooks that focus on Asia. These are inexpensive, well thought-out books in which the recipes are considered "classics" from the countries they originate from. Consider wrapping these delectable books and placing them under the tree.
