Give chocolates in an edible chocolate box.
Photo courtesy Charles Chocolates.

If you’re still stuck for that special Christmas gift, this chocolate box from Charles Chocolates may be the solution.

It’s all chocolate, including the box!

The dark chocolate or milk chocolate selections are in a base of dark or milk chocolate, with a milk chocolate or white chocolate lid. The box is filled with 18 pieces of Charles’ Chocolates most popular bonbons. Including the box, each box is a pound of chocolate.

The chocolate boxes are $60.00 each, but there’s a special offer now: two boxes for $95 (instead of $120).

Purchase online at CharlesChocolates.com.

• Find more of our favorite chocolate gifts for Holiday 2010.

Your photos of Christmas dinner can look a lot better this year.

Prominent food photographer Lou Manna, recognized by the elite Olympus Visionary Program, offers 13 tips for better food photography.

1. Keep your composure.

2. Take a fork’s-eye view.

3. Limit your ingredients.

4. Give your food a sense of style.

5. Clean your plate.

6. Crack the ISO code.

Get full details of these six tips plus the remaining seven food photography tips.

Improve your game [hen]. Photo © Lou Manna.

Our favorite: Breville’s One-Touch
Tea Maker. Photo courtesy Breville.

We love tea and drink several cups a day. The Breville One-Touch Tea Maker is our Appliance Of The Year.

We’ve tried most of the other sophisticated tea makers out there (different brewing times and/or temperatures for black, green, white and herbal teas). This is the best.

Breville’s One-Touch Tea Maker has forever changed the way we brew tea.

With the perfect temperature per type of tea (black, green, herbal, white) and your instructions on how strong you want it, this Breville beauty brews the best tea we’ve ever had. Even teas we haven’t liked taste amazingly better.

It’s fun watching the tea basket lower and brew. You can auto-set the appliance so tea is ready the minute you get out of bed, get home, etc. Over the summer, we brewed two batches daily, which we poured into pitchers and also into re-purposed empty water bottles for grab-and-go iced tea.

We are in love with this appliance. It’s worth every bit of $249.95. Find it at fine retailers and online.