If your holiday shopping list includes cooks, gardeners, lovers of food and handmade goods, vegans, or urban/backyard homesteaders, then you may want to check out the online handmade goods store, Buy Olympia. More

Here's a lovely little piece of kitchen art that I spotted in yesterday's house tour at Apartment Therapy. Look at this collection of sculptural objects; do you recognize them? More

2012 Meat and Butcher Calendar from Drywell

• $25
• Drywell

Love meat? Celebrate it all year long with this handcrafted calendar from Alyson at Drywell (we've looked at her butchery diagrams before). This 2012 calendar is covered with watercolor illustrations of common cuts of meat, butcher knives, and butchery diagrams.

13 x 19 inches. More

Souper Birthday Greeting Card from Letterform

• $4
• Letterform

What's better than birthday soup? Show someone you care with a SOUPER birthday wish, a soup recipe, and a handcrafted letterpress card. The orange envelope adds just the right touch.

100% recycled paper. Final folded size of 5.5" by 4.25". More

Would you like to understand French wine a little better? Do you get confused and tripped up by the regions, appellations, fancy French names that all run together after a bottle or two? Yes, me too. Well, this brilliant map is a great aid for understanding the wine regions of France a little better — here, they're laid out like a metro map, and it really works! More

We loved Faith's look at Camera in the Cupboard, photography that looks like paintings. Which brings us to these paintings that we at first mistook for photographs. More

In search of recipes that are more than just written lists of ingredients and straightforward instructions? Look no further than They Draw & Cook, a new book of 107 recipes written and illustrated by artists from around the world. Beautiful, entertaining and always inspiring, this book just might make you rethink the definition of "recipe." More

Food Fight Art Print by Gina Mayes

• $17.69
• Society6

It's the good guys against the bad guys. The asparagus versus the French fries, Brussels sprouts facing down the Big Mac. Corn kernels are flying. Who will prevail?

8"x8". Available in other sizes as well. More

Speaking of the drama of vegetables, how about these painterly photographs from Stephen J. Weinstein? These are some seriously gorgeous pumpkins! More

Joe Wirtheim's Victory Garden of Tomorrow project produces posters, postcards, t-shirts and tea towels to encourage home gardening, canning, chicken raising, and to promote the values of work, self-reliance and creating a better future. His designs are bold and modern, but his message is grounded in American history. His humorous take on old victory garden posters of the past would make a nice addition to your kitchen wall. Or sling a flour-sack tea towel over your oven door handle to dry. More