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Best shoppersmake lists,

stick to budget

2 — Indiana Gazette Last Minute Gift Guide, Wednesday, December 5, 2012

TASTY■ Great cookbooks anyfoodie would love.Page 6

HANUKKAH■ Edible gifts for the celebration.Page 9

GET PERSONAL■ Photos help creategifts with meaning.Page 12

TOP TOYS■ Good Housekeepinggives you its picks.Page 5

By SUSAN SALISBURYNew York Times News Service

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Theholidays are almost here, andshopping is on many of our to-dolists. The average person expects tospend $749 on holiday-relateditems this season, up $9 from 2011,according to the National RetailFederation.

Before venturing into the storesor going online, there are manythings to consider, including stay-ing within your budget and stayingsafe.

“Take advantage of sales to makeplanned purchases, but leaveother items on the shelf,” said Jes-sica Cecere, regional president fornonprofit consumer credit coun-seling agency CredAbility in WestPalm Beach.

“Don’t let the thought of getting a‘deal’ cloud your judgment. Im-pulse purchases can create holidaydebt that you will pay for well intothe new year and beyond,” Ceceresaid.

TIPS FOR SHOPPERS■ Make a list and stick to it. Hav-

ing a list of the people you need tobuy for and a budget for each per-son is a great way to make sure youdon’t overspend. Jot down ideasahead of time.

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leave the house. Use newspapercirculars and the Internet to planyour trip.

Take a look at sale ads throughthe season and look online for spe-cial deals.

■ Shop before the big sales andavoid the crowds.

Many stores will refund the pricedifference if the item goes on salewithin a few days of purchase, butthis policy may not apply to allspecials.

■ Get a jump-start by shoppingonline now.

There may be sale prices or freeshipping offers, and there’s stilltime.

■ Compare prices by using sitessuch as www.pricegrabber.com,www.bizrate.com and www.nex

tag.com. Look for coupons to save on in-

store and online purchases at sitessuch as www.couponcabin.com orwww.dealcatcher.com.

■ Don’t window shop. This leadsto spending more than youplanned.

■ Don’t take along credit cards.Studies have shown that peoplewho use credit cards to buy giftsspend an average of 30 percentmore than people who use cash.

■ Don’t make impulse purchas-es.

Do your homework and makesure something really is a deal be-fore making the purchase.

■ Keep receipts. Make sure youknow the return policy for all ofyour purchases.

■ Don’t make unnecessary pur-

chases. Talk to friends about notexchanging gifts or setting a limiton spending. Many families drawnames in order to have one personto purchase for, or limit gifts just tothe children.

BE SAFETY CONSCIOUSIn addition to being cautious

with your budget, you want to besafe while shopping.

Here are some of the best safetytips from Consumer Reports, lawenforcement agencies and othersources.

■ Don’t carry a large purse. Someexperts recommend a small pursewith a long strap that goes acrossthe opposite shoulder.

This enables you to keep yourhands free and also keep the purse

close to your body. Keep yourpurse closed.

■ Keep your wallet in a frontpocket. If you dine at the foodcourt, don’t sling your purse on theback of your chair.

Don’t put it on the floor. Men, keep your wallet in a front

pocket.■ Shop with a friend. There’s

usually safety in numbers.■ Park near the store’s entrance

and be aware of your surround-ings. If you must shop at night, askmall security to escort you to yourcar.

■ Instead of making one bigshopping trip and making repeat-ed trips to the car to store purchas-es in the trunk, break up yourshopping into smaller trips.

This is less stressful than an all-

day pilgrimage.■ Safety experts advise against

carrying a lot of cash and recom-mend using credit cards or checkcards.

This conflicts with the money-saving tips above. Use commonsense.

Don’t flash a huge wad of cash.Be discreet.

■ Carry only the necessities,such as your ID and the creditcards you will need. Don’t evercarry anything with your Social Se-curity number on it.

■ When leaving the store, bealert.

Look around. Don’t stop to talkto anyone.

If someone appears to be follow-ing you, go back to the store andask that security be contacted.

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CHECK OUT THE RATINGNearly every video game found

in stores has rating informationfrom the Entertainment SoftwareRating Board (ESRB) on the box.This rating is similar to the MotionPicture Association of America’s(MPAA) ratings for movies. Checkthe front of the box for a ratingicon representing one of the fol-lowing Rating Categories:

■ E (Everyone)■ E10+ (Everyone 10 and older)

■ T (Teen) or M (Mature), mean-ing 17 or older

Flip the box to find Content De-scriptors, which offer more detailas to why the game earned a par-ticular rating (via phrases like“Suggestive Themes” and “FantasyViolence”). The ESRB’s retail part-ners, such as GameStop, only sellESRB-rated games, giving you ahead start toward finding age-ap-propriate titles.

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help you be more aware of and in-volved in children’s gaming experi-ences. Tips include how to discussgaming habits and online content,and how to activate game con-soles’ parental controls. There isalso a Gaming 101 section that ex-plains video game terms like “FPS”(first person shooter) and “RPG”(role-playing game).

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NEW YORK — Not all the testersfor Good Housekeeping’s annualBest Toys list wear lab coats. Someare barely out of diapers.

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But the true test comes from 140kids, ages 3 to 13, who play withthe top 135 new toys at the maga-zine’s product-testing laboratoryin New York.

There are more price-consciouschoices under $25 to choose fromthis year, according to the GoodHousekeeping Research Institute,along with toys that teach, includ-ing robotics for very young chil-dren and sophisticated art projectsand models for older kids. Othersfall into the category of back-to-basics, abandoning tech in favor ofmore open-ended play.

“Parents can feel confident thatour winners are safe, fun and en-courage creativity, imagination,and problem-solving skills,” saidRosemary Ellis, editor in chief ofGood Housekeeping.

The winners of Good House-keeping’s 2012 Best Toy Awards arerevealed in the December issue, onnewsstands Tuesday:

AGES 3 AND UP: The Hexbug HiveHabitat Set ($35) has mechanicalbugs running through a customiz-able maze, and the Techno SourceGlow Crazy Doodle Dome ($20) isa tent that allows children to drawon the walls with a green lightwand.

AGES 4 AND UP: T.S. ShureArchiQuest Architectural Elements($30) is a set of wooden blocks “in

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AGES 5 AND UP: Moose Toys For-tune Cookie Maker ($25) lets kidsmake their own fortunes andcookies with a little help from themicrowave, and the Jakks PacificPower Trains Auto Loader City($40) has a five-car train and 18feet of track for “an affordable al-ternative to die-cast models.”

AGES 6 AND UP: The Moose ToysMicro Chargers Loop Track ($20)

has fast-charging cars that shootthrough a stunt track, the CrayolaMarker Airbrush ($25) uses mark-ers to create spray paint-style artand the Lego Friends AdventureCamper ($30) creates a motorhome with dolls, bikes and a surf-board.

AGES 7 AND UP: The TechnoSource Codee ($8) is a twistablechain of blocks that can be madeinto creatures like a bright flamin-go or robot, and the Playmobil E-Rangers Headquarters ($130), hasa swiveling LED spotlight and aworking solar panel.

AGES 8 AND UP: The SilverlitPorsche 911 Carrera ($80) is areplica of the sports car that can besteered by iPhone, or kids can cre-ate colorful domino-type patternswith Colorfall from Marbles: TheBrain Store ($45). Wild PlanetNight Sight ($40) is head-mountedinfrared night-vision goggles, andHasbro’s Bop It!

Smash ($23) has players trying tohit a moving light.

AGES 9 AND UP: The K’Nex AtomicCoaster ($71) is a motorized ridefor dueling cars that requires as-sembly of more than 1,000 pieces.

AGES 10 ANDUP: The Ravens-burger 3DBuilding Set($26) is apuzzle kit tocreate repli-cas offa-moussitesliketheEiffelTower.

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It’s that time of year again, whenretailers deck their halls, radio sta-tions relentlessly jingle and cook-books go forth and multiply.

The dawn of the holiday seasonalso marks an onslaught from thepublishing world — a rush of food

books that begins in August andrefuses to slow down until everyfamily in America has gifted (andperhaps regifted) at least a dozen.Or maybe it just feels that way.

The upshot of all this is that theretruly is a food book for everyoneon your shopping list. Should youcare to go that route, we’ve sussedout some of the best to help

streamline at least that leg of yourshopping trip.

FOR COOKBOOK GEEKSFancy a sunderland pudding?

Ever wonder how to dress a calf’shead? Publisher Andrews McMeelhas teamed up with The AmericanAntiquarian Society to publish re-productions of 100 cookbooks

documenting the early Americancooking experience. “AmericanCookery” (Andrews McMeel,$22.99) by Amelia Simmons wasoriginally published in 1796 and isbelieved to be the first cookbook todocument American culinarytechniques. It offers a window intothose days with recipes for itemssuch as spruce beer and tongue

pie set beside page images fromthe original cookbook.

Also part of the series is Ameri-ca’s first Jewish cookbook, “JewishCookery Book: On Principles ofEconomy” (Andrews McMeel,$28.99) by Esther Levy. It originallywas published in 1871 and in-cludes recipes for fish balls andfrimsel (noodle) soup. Its recipes,menu suggestions and householdmanagement tips aimed to helpEuropean immigrants adapt totheir new country while maintain-ing their religious heritage.

Both volumes are perfect for thearmchair anthropologist in yourlife.

FOR REGULAR GEEKSDoes your loved one stand over a

pot of boiling water with a ther-mometer? Wonder why salt makessteak juicy? Muse out loud aboutwhy russets make fluffier mashedpotatoes than red bliss? We got itcovered.

“The Science of Good Cooking”(America’s Test Kitchen, $40) bythe folks behind Cook’s Illustratedmagazine doesn’t just offer “400recipes engineered for perfection,”it also covers 50 basic concepts ex-plaining why the recipes work.Useful sidebars showcase tips andtechniques — use a skillet, not awok to stir-fry — and charts thatcheck your measurements (a cupof all-purpose flour should weigh 5ounces) make it a handy referenceguide.

“Modernist Cuisine at Home”(The Cooking Lab, $140) is evensexier. The laboratory that last yearproduced “Modernist Cuisine,” asix-volume encyclopedia of mo-lecular gastronomy by NathanMyhrvold, has turned its blowtorches and sous vide machines onhome cooking. It’s a monstrouslyfun and shockingly practical cook-book that truly lets you get yourgeek on in the kitchen.

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Sneaking in between are recipessuch as sole meuniere fromJacques Pepin’s “La Technique,”Bengal red lentils from JulieSahni’s “Classic Indian Vegetarianand Grain Cooking,” and bananabread from Mark Bittman’s “Howto Cook Everything.” Essays abouteach book and its importancemake this an excellent gift for theperson who loves cookbooks evenmore than cooking. There also isthe incredibly charming “Hand-written Recipes” (Perigee, $20), acollection of found recipes bybookseller Michael Popek. Tuckedbetween the pages of booksbrought into his store, Popekfound the jots and scribbles ofrecipes from unknown cooks. In“Handwritten Recipes,” he collectsthose notes and recipes, assem-bling a book that is as much lovelyartifact as cookbook.

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out? Charles Phan, the chef behindSan Francisco’s famed restaurantThe Slanted Door, offers “Viet-namese Home Cooking” (TenSpeed Press, $35), devoted tobringing tamarind, star anise, fishsauce and lemon grass to a kitchennear you. While many of therecipes are a little too “chefy” —who’s going to fillet their own fishfor the “simple fish soup”? — theygo a long way to introducing theflavors and techniques of the cui-sine. Bite-sized steamed rice cakespromise unusual party snacks, andlemon grass chicken could be afeather in your toque.

“The Hakka Cookbook: ChineseSoul Food from Around the World”(University of California Press,$39.95) by Linda LauAnusasananan captures the fla-vors and stories of an often over-looked Chinese diaspora. Friedeggs and bitter melon, tangy-sweetraw fish salad, and chicken stuffedwith preserved mustard greens

offer new insights to even thesavviest fan of Chinese food.

Among the steady supply ofbooks on Latin food, three standout. “Muy Bueno: Three Genera-tions of Authentic Mexican Flavor”(Hippocrene Books, $22.50) byYvette Marquez-Sharpnack,Veronica Gonzalez-Smith andEvangelina Soza, preserves recipesspanning old world Mexican dish-es like pork tamales to fusion cre-ations like scallop and cucumbercocktail. Charming family storiescombined with richly colorfulphotos to make this a delightful in-vitation to cooking.

In “The Latin Road Home” (LakeIsle Press, $35), chef Jose Garcestraces his culinary journey fromhis ancestral home of Ecuadorthrough his different influencesfrom Spain to Cuba, Mexico and

Peru. Recipes for dishes like redsnapper in tomato sauce and hisgrandmother’s empanadas arewoven with thoroughly readablenarratives of his life and family, aswell as useful information aboutthe regions.

“Gran Cocina Latina: The Foodof Latin America” (W.W. Norton,$45) by Cuban-born chef MaricelPresilla offers a sweeping, sophisti-cated history of Latin food that il-lustrates the diversity of tech-niques, styles and flavors through500 recipes. Recipes for founda-tional adobos and sofritos pave theway for cuitlacoche and jalapeñoquesadillas, various pilafs, em-panadas and tamales.

FOR CELEBRITY CHEF FANSWho didn’t love Kevin Gillespie,

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His book, “Fire in my Belly” (An-drews McMeel, $40) brings homerecipes like Brussels sprouts gratinwith heavy cream and mustardand the “one-pot hog supper” withfat back and cracklings. Light it’snot, but delicious?

FOR THE BAKERLove dessert but hate to fuss? A

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“Piece of Cake: Home BakingMade Simple” (Rizzoli, $29.95) byDavid Muniz and David Lesniakoffers more than 120 recipes forclassic American treats — thinkbrownies, peanut butter cookiesand blueberry muffins. Black andwhite cheesecake, an honest-to-goodness New York crumb cake,and cakes from bundts to babkasjoin the fun.

Home-baked pies are the aspira-tion of many a cook. “A Year ofPies” (Lark, $19.95) by Ashley Eng-lish offers strawberry, rhubarb andginger hand pies for spring, pump-kin tiramisu pie in fall and pies forall the days in between. Savorypies like curried winter vegetableand galumpkis pie — the pie ver-sion of Polish stuffed cabbage —mix things up in the coldermonths.

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Anybody can gift-wrap a match-ing apron and oven mitts. But ifyou really want to impress thefoodie in your life, give the gift ofkitchen tech.

To suss out which gizmos areworth giving, we went to the mas-ter himself, Nathan Myhrvold, theformer Microsoft executive turnedhigh priest of modernist cuisine.Myhrvold spent hundreds of thou-sands of dollars decking out hisBellevue, Wash., kitchen-lab, out-fitting it with texture analyzers thatdetermine meat’s doneness, a laserthat precision cuts pasta shapesand microns-thin daikon slices,even a centrifuge that separatespeas and other matter into theircomponent parts.

Admittedly, most of that won’tland under the tree this year. Butwe walked the lab with Myhrvoldto get ideas for outfitting a mod-ernist kitchen on any budget. Hereare the basics:

UNDER $100■ Digital thermometer ($10 to

$60)Start with a really good digital

thermometer. “The texture andtaste of food changes with temper-ature,” Myhrvold says, so it’s im-portant to measure accurately.Digital thermometers also are fast,giving accurate readings in justseconds.

■ Digital scale ($15 to $40)A reliable scale is a must. “We

weigh rather than using teaspoonsand cups,” Myhrvold says. “It’smore accurate.”

This is true if you’re measuringflour for bread or if you’re measur-ing xanthan gum to thicken asauce. Myhrvold recommends ascale for ordinary weights up to acouple of kilos, and, if you’re seri-ous about pursing modernist tech-niques, a second model that meas-ures tiny quantities — hundredthsof a gram — for gums and gellingagents.

■ Lab sieves ($35 to $75)Similar to what you might see

used by a kid on the beach, exceptlab sieves have very tiny openings— think less than 1/100th of aninch. In labs, they separate differ-ent sized particles. In the kitchen,Myhrvold uses them to createsuper-silky sauces, jams andstocks, with every last bit of sedi-ment removed.

■ Blow torch ($50 to $65)

“We like the Home Depot ones,”Myhrvold says. “They’re simple,they’re reliable, and when youwant to make something hot — re-ally hot — there’s nothing like it.”

Use a blow torch to sear a steakor brown a chicken while still pre-serving the perfect doneness of theitem in question.

$100 TO $200■ Whipping siphon ($120 to

$150)Normal people use this to make

whipped cream. Myhrvold uses itto serve scrambled eggs in foamylittle dollops or to lighten saucesand soups. It also can be used tovacuum marinate meat, a processthat uses pressure to create moreflavor.

■ Pressure cooker ($50 to $200)Besides cooking things quickly, a

pressure cooker also cooks thembetter. “It’s the best possible way tomake stock,” Myhrvold says, ex-plaining that the high heat in thepressure cooker does a better jobof extracting flavor than the tradi-tional long, slow simmer method.The pressure cooker also can re-duce vegetables such as carrots tosoup with a little help from bakingsoda to foster caramelization.

MORE THAN $200■ Sous vide machine ($329 to

$499) The granddaddy of hipsterkitchen appliances. Myhrvold isunrelenting in his devotion to sousvide, the water bath method usedby chefs to cook items to an exactdoneness. “It gives you exquisitecontrol over temperature,”Myhrvold says, eliminating the

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By JIM ROMANOFFAssociated Press

For probably no reason beyondproximity on the calendar,Hanukkah and Christmas tend toget lumped together. Traditionally,the holidays actually have little incommon.

But one shared tradition — andone that has become even more soas lines have blurred — is the ex-change of gifts. But with one im-portant distinction. WhereasChristmas is celebrated on oneday, Hanukkah stretches overeight. As a result, the gifts tend tobe smaller. Treats and other foodgifts are particularly popular dur-ing the Jewish festival of lights.

Favorite Hanukkah treats in-clude chocolate coins wrapped ingold foil (called gelt), as well as

cookies in the shapes of menorahsand dreidels often decorated inblue, white, silver or gold, com-mon colors for the holiday. Alsopopular are rugelach, bite-sizedcrescent pastries filled with nuts,chocolate, marzipan or fruit pre-serves.

Giving — and consuming —yeasty jelly-filled doughnuts calledsufganiyot, which are fried in theoil that is so symbolically impor-tant to Hanukkah, is a traditionwith Israeli roots, but is becomingmore popular in the U.S., saysLaura Frankel, a food educator andexecutive chef at the Spertus Cen-ter for Jewish Learning & Culturein Chicago.

But she favors another — moreAmerican — Hanukkah tradition,the giving of pretzels that havebeen dipped in chocolate and

other toppings.She and her pastry chef husband

started by making them with theirchildren, but then Frankel extend-ed the family fun by teaching chil-dren at local schools to make thesalty treats as a way to share thestory of Hanukkah.

“It’s great fun because the kidslove making the dough into allkinds of shapes,” says Frankel.“And it’s a food activity you can ac-tually let them do, unlike fryinglatkes or sufganiyot in hot oil.”

Though Frankel’s own childrennow are adults, she still goes to theschools to spread Hanukkah pret-zel love each year.

The kids especially love thechocolate dipping part, saysFrankel, and topping them with

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The tradition of eating pretzelsduring the Jewish festival of lightsis a relatively new one. The pretzelsoften are shaped to resembleHanukkah symbols, such asmenorahs and dreidels. This ver-sion from cookbook author LauraFrankel gives the tradition a deluxetwist with a coating of dark choco-late and a dusting of gold leaf(available at craft and baking sup-

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Holding the ends of the rope,fold them downward and crossthem over each other to create theclassic pretzel shape. Gently pressthe ends of the ropes into the bot-tom of the “U.”

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Boil for 30 seconds. Use a large

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When all of the pretzels havebeen boiled, in a small cup whiskthe egg yolk and cool water.

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Bake until dark golden brown,about 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer toa cooling rack for at least 5 min-utes. Meanwhile, in a double boil-er, melt the chocolate. Transfer thechocolate to a plastic bag, then usescissors to snip off one corner.Gently squeeze the bag to drizzlethe chocolate over the cooled pret-zels.

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■ I’m good with gluten; I’mdown with dairy. But let no fooditem that contains a raisin crossmy threshold.

■ No matter how expensive, anybalm, serum or lotion with a labelon which the word “anti-aging”appears is unwelcome.

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■ If it’s too small, I’ll definitely beembarrassed.

■ A deluxe room deodorizer waspresented as a birthday gift to awoman whose party I attendedearlier this year. I don’t want one.

■ The only candle I want is un-scented and either fits in a meno-rah or will last for hours in a poweroutage.

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