Handmade dish scrubbers make a thoughtful gift for your host, especially when you offer to help. Photo: Duane Tinkey
Torri Meyers, co-owner of the Walnut Street houseware boutique Hotori, loves curating meaningful gifts from their stock of cooking utensils, snacks, cookbooks and more. Shop by sense to build the perfect gift basket for your holiday host.
Sight: There’s something elegant about the clean, minimalist aesthetic of the artisanal dishware from Hasami Porcelain. Hotori carries the brand’s mugs, plates and more in black, natural and glossy gray finishes
Touch: Myers’ mother crochets sparkly Korean-style dish scrubbers by hand. They’re a traditional Korean housewarming gift and come in handy during Friendsgiving cleanup.
Taste: Hotori curates plenty of Asian-inspired treats to dig into. They carry Fossa Chocolate, an artisanal brand in Singapore, which makes all kinds of unique chocolate flavors like hojicha (roasted green tea), lychee rose, matcha yuzu and ginseng chrysanthemum.
Hotori also has cookbooks for newbies to the kitchen and home chefs ready for a culinary challenge. “Our cookbook collection is handpicked by us, with rotating titles of new releases and forever-favorites,” Meyers said. A good start is “Salt Sugar MSG: Recipes and Stories From a Cantonese American Home” by Calvin Eng.
—Hailey Evans, dsm associate editor
