Last week we covered gift guides for the green-loving and budget-minded. Now let's tackle cooks! Garden, Grocery, Gadget Girl suggests a motion-detector soap dispenser (perfect if you have greasy hands) and Penzey's spice gift boxes. Four Pounds Flour offers ideas for "the culinary history enthusiast in your life." The Kitchn has 15 small luxuries for home cooks, including locally produced honey and Marcona almonds. The Amateur Gourmet rounds up his favorite cookbooks of the year. Kitchen Therapy is giving water bath canning sets and vegetable peelers, "in red so you find it in the jumble of the tool drawer." Macheesmo lists 21 stocking stuffers for cooks, like a mallet ("cooks frequently need to flatten things, smash things, or just take out general aggression").