Elizabeth Karmel's Gift Ideas
3:23 PM PST, December 17, 2007
 At the holidays, I am a clearinghouse for gift ideas. So, it didn't surprise me when lots of people that I don't even know began to ask me for holiday gift suggestions--especially when they ask me what to buy their favorite griller! Over the years, I have created three lists based on the recipient's level of grilling. This is akin to my Grill Skill quiz where I rank grillers as "Sparky", "Smokin'", or "Red Hot". The idea is that as your level increases, so does your "toolbox!" So, everyone should look at all the lists and fill in with whatever they might be missing.
Special Note of Full Disclosure: I love gear so much that I started a line of kitchen and grilling tools four years ago. It always bugged me that most housewares, tools, and gadgets were made by people who never used them. I'll never forgot the time I ran out to buy the latest greatest gizmo and I had to drive 40 minutes each way to reach the only store in my area that had it in stock, and spent $42.00 on the product only to come home and the darn thing didn't work! That day, I vowed that I would find a way to make my own tools. Today, I design and manufacturer grilling and kitchen prep tools that solve problems that real cooks have in the kitchen and around the grill. My line is called Grill Friends and this year I spun the prep tools off into a line called Elizabeth Karmel's Kitchen Friends. Despite the name, all my products work as hard indoors as they do around the grill and vice versa! And, after you shop, be sure to check out my friend, John Lineweaver's smokin' holiday gift wrap and fun wine and spirit gift tags for that perfect hostess gift. You’ll be buying your favorite griller the gifts that he or she wants and wrapping them up in style! Happy Shopping! Sparky Supplies (Griller Must Haves): Taming the Flame: Secrets for Hot-and-Quick Grilling and Low-and-Slow BBQ Good Chef’s Knife--my favorite is the Santoku Knife Flexible Cutting Boards to put on top of a wooden board when cutting meat, poultry, onions or garlic--anything that is difficult to clean Smokin' Stuff (Griller Nice to Haves): Grill Friends Turkey Brining Bag Fleur De Sel De Camargue French Sea Salt Sarah's Sea Salt, Mediterranean Double Kabob Skewers Pizza Peel Elizabeth Karmel Grill Friends Cedar Smoking Sheets Messermeister Pull-Apart Kitchen Shears Red Hot Rigs (Extreme Grilling Tools) The Legend by Mike Mills (Old Hickory Pits), Preferably Red The Primo Oval XL in Cypress Wood Cooking Station Garden Scoop, for moving charcoal Grill Friends Turkey Sitter Culinary Salts of the World Gift Set Grill Friends BBQ to Go Kit Elizabeth Karmel is the author of the all-inclusive grilling and barbecue cookbook, Taming the Flame: Secrets for Hot-and-Quick Grilling and Low-and-Slow BBQ. Karmel is also the founder of GirlsattheGrill.com. The website provides backyard cooks (and women who are tired of burnt chicken and shoe-leather steak) with simple easy-to-understand instructions, lifestyle information and recipes for everything from classic cookouts to gourmet grill meals.
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Bio
Elizabeth Karmel grew up in North Carolina where she was raised on BBQ. Her cultural passion for barbecue served Karmel well as she played with fire everyday handling marketing public relations efforts and culinary initiatives for client Weber-Stephen Products Co. for a decade before creating Girls at the Grill™ in 2001.
Karmel created Girls at the Grill in 2001 to share her passion for outdoor cooking with girls (and any willing guy) everywhere. Girlsatthegrill.com is committed to providing backyard cooks (and women who are tired of burnt chicken and shoe-leather steak) with simple easy-to-understand instructions, lifestyle information and recipes for everything from classic cookouts to gourmet grill meals. Karmel shares her knowledge and enthusiasm every week through the free GrillNEWS newsletter she sends to members of the website’s LadyBug Club. The club boasts tens of thousands of members, both male and female. Karmel has been the featured guest on many Food Network programs and specials. She has also appeared on the Today show multiple times, CBS The Early Show, MSNBC in-flight programming and local television stations. Karmel is the author of an all-inclusive grilling and barbecue cookbook, Taming the Flame: Secrets for Hot-and-Quick Grilling and Low-and-Slow BBQ published by John Wiley. |
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