“I haven't been everywhere,” Susan Sontag famously said, “but it's on my list.” What else might travelers have on their wish list this holiday season?
The gifts below are suited for all types of voyagers, including sauna hat stocking stuffers, cashmere carry-ons, self-watering planters for out-of-towners, and even a teddy bear-shaped digital camera for traveling tots.
Here, PRIOR presents the perfect presents for….
The Epicure
Good taste guaranteed.
A great panettone — a buttery Italian bread scented with citrus with creamy yellow crumbs — is as much a gift for your pantry as it is one for under your tree. The picks below are straight from Italy and can be shipped worldwide. Production is limited, though, so buy now if you want to have your panettone and eat it come Christmastime.
NUOVO MODO The Milanese bakery Panificio Davide Longoni’s Panettone Classico (around $43) updates the classic Milanese recipe — orange peel, sugared fruit, raisins — with sourdough, French dairy butter and artisanal candied fruit produced by Panificio Moderno di Trento. The citruses used for candying are grown specially by the SOS Rosarno association, a group of small Calabrian farmers and ecologists in the Gioia Tauro Plain of Southern Italy.
CLASSICO Peck, a Milan landmark that bills itself as an “Italian temple of gastronomical delights,” has a signature Panettone 1kg (around $39) with a ultra-pillowy dough, thanks to a “patient” three-day leavening and carefully-selected ingredients (flour with stone-ground wheat germ, bourbon-quality vanilla pods from Madagascar, fresh candied Italian orange peels dusted in cane sugar, fine Tuscan acacia honey). It’s heavenly enough da assaporare tutto l'anno (“to be enjoyed all year round”).
ELEGANTE The Panettone Milano (around $53) at Cracco — named for its well-regarded Italian chef, Carlo Cracco — is leavened so perfectly that it obtains a soft, near honeycombed consistency, which is, of course, laced with candied orange, raisins and a rich vanilla aroma. This year, the panettone comes in a new collectible tin reminiscent of “sitting in Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele,” says PRIOR’s Carlotta Panza.
The Traveling Tot
Imagination beyond the iPad.
• Little Photographer Kids Digital Camera ($65) by Uncommon Goods gives fledgling shutterbugs a real digital camera designed just for them. (Bonus: It gets the little ones off your screens.)
