Category Friends and family ($30-$100)
Best For Cheese lovers, Seattle natives missing the homeland.

Let’s say your kid’s abroad and can’t get home for the holidays. Or you’re here but your sister is in New York and hanging out with her inlaws.

Or let’s just say there’s someone out there whom you love and who really loves cheese.

For these sort of “I’m thinking of you and I know you love the Northwest” gifts, I like the winter collection from Beecher’s. It’s an assortment of Northwest cheeses and accompaniments that costs $55 and ships for $12.

You get: Mt Towsend Creamery Seastack, Willapa Hills Two-faced Blue, Beecher’s Flagship, Rutherford and Meyer Plum Fruit Paste, and Beechers original crackers—basically the makings of a kickass cheese plate, all ready to go.

Most gift baskets are jerks. But this one is full of actually good stuff, and it’s within the realm of reason from a price perspective. Send away.