Tabletop plants including Rosemary, Aleppo Pine, Italian Stone Pine, lavender and Leyland Cypress are available in floral departments starting at $12.99.

Honeycrisp Apple & Pear Pie
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Honeycrisp Apple and Pear Pie: Another unique flavor to our extensive pie assortment that blends the best seller Honeycrisp apple slices with firm Bartlett pear chunks. Spiced with cinnamon and ginger with hints of vanilla. Retails for $19.99. Perfect gift for neighbors, teachers or a friend with a major sweet tooth. Makes a great hostess gift for small gatherings.

Kate Weiser Chocolates: Festive, unique and handcrafted chocolates set Kate Weiser at the top of her chocolatier class. From classic chocolates and bars to melting cocoa snowmen, the goods from this small Dallas-based artisan are going fast! Perfect gift for stocking stuffers, teachers, nieces/nephews, kids and the chocolate loves in your life.

Fritz Knipschildt: House of the “World’s Most Expensive Chocolate,” House of Knipschildt offers fine chocolates and confectionaries in seasonal flavors like eggnog and mulled wine. These chocolates are handmade, hand painted and hand packed to ensure quality and consistency. The perfect gift for those who you really want to show gratitude toward or really want to impress.

Milk Bar Cookies
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Milk Bar cookies and crumble cakes: Milk Bar is a sweet (and occasionally savory) NYC-based shop that’s been turning familiar treats upside down and on their heads — shaking up desserts since 2008. Bon Appétit magazine called them “one of the most exciting bakeries in the country.” The ideal gift for friends who love to do it for the ‘gram. Combine it with other NYC goods for the person who won’t get to go to the city for the holidays.

Cartwright and Butler: A new and unique collection of curds, sauces, honeys, cakes and shortbreads. A great compilation gift for avid tea drinkers or those who may enjoy hosting a “high tea” party at home.

Sister’s Gourmet Cookie Mixes: These cookie mixes have almost everything you need to make delicious made-from-scratch cookies. Choose from a variety of flavors like French chocolate sable, million dollar, and classic chocolate chip. A great gift for baker friends or any gluten-friendly person on your list.

Redoro Novello extra-virgin olive oil exclusively produced for Central Market. A perfect gift for cooks who know that a drizzle of olive oil is a fine way to finish any dish.

Indulge Popcorn: Popcorn popped in coconut oil and pink Himalayan sea salt and tossed, coated and drizzled in real ingredients. Made in small batches for quality, and available in unique seasonal flavors. A tasty gift for anyone you know and love who deserves way better than a drug-store popcorn tin.

Paladin Peri Peri: a new selection of Peri-Peri hot sauces in a variety of flavors and heat levels. Imported from Portugal. A unique stocking stuffer for the people who like a little spice in their life!

Veuve Clicquot holiday tins: The Veuve Cliquot holiday tins are a collector’s dream and these 2020 tins are no different. This year, Veuve is going retro with a line of cassette tape tins. The perfect gift for hosts, fans of the 80’s pop culture, or anyone who loves to celebrate with some fine bubbles.

Pierre Paillard Le Parcelles XV: a traditional champagne from the Champagne region of France, this Pierre Paillard Bouzy Grand Cru is a popular and often hard to find wine. Perfect gift for champagne fans or wine drinkers who seek out unique and boutique wines.

Smithey Pans: This hand-forged carbon steel pan is both a workhorse in the kitchen and a piece of art. It’s lighter than cast iron and performs just as well. Perfect gift for foodies who have a deep love for their cast iron pans.

Thymes Frazier Fur: A favorite fragrance this time of year, Thymes offers Frazier Fur in a collection of candles, votives and diffusers in a variety of designs to suit any home or design. Invokes the “just cut” forest fragrance perfect for this holiday season. Makes a perfect hostess or neighbor gift.

Bathing Flowers
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Heathcote & Ivory: Bathing flowers add a touch of softening, color and fragrance to any bath. Items are paraben- and sulfate-free, and only made with natural and enriching ingredients. Perfect for the person who loves luxurious items. Also makes a unique stocking stuffer.

Central Market Gift Card: Available in multiple designs and ready to preload with any amount. Can be used for in-store purchases, online purchases, cooking school classes and catering. Perfect gift for teachers, home chefs, professional chefs, or anyone in your life who in really into food!

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If you need a potent potable for a gift, Central Market has you covered. From half bottle stocking stuffers to local brews, they have it all! I love giving bubbly, and these road sign tins from Veuve Cliquot are wonderful. (Central Market also has a great selection of caviars, which, with some Veuve, would make a luxurious gift!) If, however, your taste runs more to beer, why not fill up one of these gorgeous growlers with some local beer, available on tap?

Conroe, TX-based Enfusia bath and body products are hand-made, natural, and 100% vegan and cruelty-free. Their bath bombs and salts come in a variety of yummy scents like Lemongrass, Pomegranate, or Coriander Rosewood. Perfect for soaking away holiday stress!

The Central Market cheese department is unparalleled, and the cheese experts are ready for the holidays! They have several cheese platter bags ready to go, or they can help you pull together the perfect platter. Add in some olives, nuts, and bread, and your hors d’oeuvres are ready to go.

If you are running out of time, don’t fret! Central Market’s gift baskets and floral arrangements are the perfect last-minute hostess gift. Their baskets are filled with all sorts of goodies, and they have, hands down, the most beautiful flowers in town. As my younger daughter says, “Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy!”

One last idea for your homesick Texan who lives far away: Central Market’s tamales freeze beautifully and can be shipped overnight!

The holidays are stressful. However, Central Market makes gift-giving easy!

Lee Virden Geurkink is a jack of all trades, master of none. She has been a bank teller, a chef and caterer (both in restaurants and in private service), a bookkeeper, a trainer, a legal assistant, and a writer. She is a proud graduate of the University of the South with a degree in Early European History. While she has not used her degree in her, er, varied employment history, she is fabulous at cocktail parties. A newlywed, Lee is the proud mother of two amazing girls to whom she refers on social media as the Girlchildren.

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