{"id":350232,"date":"2025-11-02T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/350232\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:45:16","slug":"best-food-gifts-from-los-angeles-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/350232\/","title":{"rendered":"Best food gifts from Los Angeles spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stumped for holiday present ideas? Food gifts have universal appeal: These are fun and practical at once. And even more meaningful because they\u2019re from local small businesses including L.A. restaurants, bakeries, farms, markets and makers. <\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s on your gift list? A chocolate lover? A Caracas-born chef in Pasadena makes her own hot chocolate mix from Venezuelan Criollo cacao. Coffee fan? East L.A.\u2019s Picaresca Barra de Cafe roasts coffee beans and bottles its cinnamon-scented cafe de olla syrup. Tea aficionado? A Chinatown tea shop offers subscription boxes of thoughtful blends from China and Taiwan; some are rare finds. <\/p>\n<p>And any farmers market regular would want to sport the Weiser Family Farm collab T-shirt emblazoned with a pink radish or Bonnie melon. <\/p>\n<p>If you make a purchase using some of our links, the L.A. Times may be compensated. Prices and availability of items and experiences in the Gift Guide and on latimes.com are subject to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stumped for holiday present ideas? Food gifts have universal appeal: These are fun and practical at once. And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":350233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[20312,171544,1582,276,74,171550,31951,103349,33879,8625,2961,224,171546,5337,9106,171551,171547,171548,171545,171549],"class_list":{"0":"post-350232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-availability","9":"tag-best-food-gift","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-coffee-fan","14":"tag-east-l-a","15":"tag-farm","16":"tag-item","17":"tag-l-a-restaurant","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-spot","21":"tag-losangeles","22":"tag-market","23":"tag-olla-syrup","24":"tag-picaresca-barra-de-cafe","25":"tag-subscription-box","26":"tag-thoughtful-blend","27":"tag-venezuelan-criollo-cacao"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115479938584817449","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}