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The HTSI Holiday Gift Guide 2025

It’s never too early to sort your holiday shopping. The HTSI gift guide has a present for every type — from globetrotters and gadget gurus to gardeners and gourmets. Free to read with your FT account.

16 gifts for homebodies – with a taste for granny chic

The HTSI editor wants fancy fabrics, floral linens and a frou-frou shade

16 gifts for foodies – with a small side of kitsch

HTSI’s food columnist is hungry for Somerset cheese, Turkish delight and a Soft Serve lighter

16 gifts for art lovers who like a lick of gilt

The HTSI deputy editor is going high-culture or all-out gaudy

23 stocking fillers by independent makers

Smart gift ideas from traditional, family-owned labels

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The FT’s food writers replied to reader questions

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A Noma graduate is reimagining the French canon in Paris

Space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘We’re on the cusp of something really exciting’

The educator and broadcaster on the search for life beyond Earth, what we might gain from mining on the Moon — and how to divert a killer asteroid

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’