Ideal gifts for Christmas feasting

Kya deLongchamps says today’s range of kitchen kit provides perfect present material.

One of the tender quizzes of buying Christmas gifts and social tokens is navigating the waters of ‘I would never have bought that for myself’.

If you don’t know your recipient well, keep things universally appealing and relatively impersonal — Irish-perfumed soap or candles, pottery, wine nestled in raffia, gift cards — any pretty no-brainer will do.