What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. A stunning photographic collection ($26) featuring portraits of 80 people from 30 countries and the food they eat in one day.There are 80 profiles are organized by the total number of calories each person puts away in a day. Featuring a Japanese sumo wrestler, a Massai herdswoman, world-renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria, an American competitive eater, and others, these compulsively readable personal stories also include demographic particulars, including age, activity level, height, and weight. Essays from Harvard primatologist Richard Wrangham, journalist Michael Pollan, and others discuss the implications of our modern diets for our health. From Amazon. Really want this!

Saint Cupcakes Deluxe. A co-worker of mine just brought it a super cool make it yourself cupcake kit from Saint Cupcake bakery in Portland, OR. The cupcakes come in kits of 3, 6 or 12. Once you choose your quantity, you can the our magical cupcake selector to build your kit. you pick your icings, you pick your sprinkles — packaged it all up in a perfect kit, complete with an icing wand and easy-peasy decorating tips. then we’ll pop it in the post to you! easy, sweet and delicious. They were super tasty and fun to pick-and choose your own combo. Perfect for a party! (hat tip Gary Leff)

The Boozy Baker. The Boozy Baker: 75 Recipes for Spirited Sweets ($13) contains recipes for desserts (cakes, tarts, pies, cookies, etc) with a healthy dose of alcohol. Author, Lucy Baker, does a great job at giving history of the liquors she uses and explaining how the alcohol enhances the flavors of the dessert. The book also includes sidebars throughout with instructions for preparing funky cocktails that add a punchy compliment to many of the recipes.

The Berry Bible. One of my favorite thing about summer is lots of fresh berries. Janie Hibler’s The Berry Bible ($13) is a bit of encyclopedia on all things berries, including over 175 recipes using cultivated, wild, fresh, and frozen berries—from well-known types such as strawberries and raspberries, to their lesser known counterparts. Recipes cover a wide range of easily produced sweet and savory meals, and also include formulas for smoothies, cocktails, condiments like chutney, and homemade berry liqueurs. Yum!

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why. I truly believe that you are what you eat, and it is really important to put good wholesome food in your body A perfect book ($17) for those of you with an interest in nutrition. Goes into details about the pros of certain foods (for example- blueberries and antioxidants) and offers healthy meal suggestions.

Southern Pound Cake. I was walking through my local farmer’s market last week when I discovered Two Belles: Southern Pound Cakes. They had several samples and all of them were super tasty! With flavors like summer key lime, orange and lemon, and my fave brown sugar you are sure to enjoy a tasty treat great for any occasion. They ship anywhere in the continental US.

Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain. The newest book ($15) from chef/author Anthony Bourdain has arrived! I am a big fan of his writing. Since Kitchen Confidential, published ten years ago, when Bourdain first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and perils of eating out he has transformed from chef to international globe trotter in search of good food. Medium Raw explores the changes from his bad boy chef days to the present with plenty of rants and stories along the way. Great father’s day gifts for those foodie dads.

Thomas Keller Fried Chicken. This exclusive kit from William Sonoma ($15) contains everything you need to turn ordinary chicken pieces into the succulent, crispy, perfectly seasoned fried chicken that has earned legions of loyal fans at chef Thomas Keller’s Napa Valley restaurant Ad Hoc. Great gift for foodies! Yum! (Via Washingtonian)

Rainbow Cake. This beautiful and colorful cake ($25) can be delivered right to your door from Penny’s Pies Bakeshop in New Jersey. The cake itself is a delicate white butter cake. The frosting and filling is a very light buttercream with a hint of lemon. There are six layers. Each layer of cake will be on parchment cardboard and wrapped ever so tightly. The buttercream will be in a container. All you will have to do it ice the cake!

Moleskine Passions Wellness Journal. From the best journal makers in the business, moleskin now creates journals for whatever your “passion” is (food, wine, film, music, books). The wellness journal ($14) is a good one stop shop for all things regarding food and fitness. Included is: food calendar (what foods are in season and when/where), food information (basic nutrition information for several common foods), personal goals section (weekly/monthly), exercise log, diet log, general health (vitamins/sleep/etc.), sports (to document when you play), inspirations and a few blank pages to do whatever you please.