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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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A bartenders’ guide to the best cocktails in Washington

Reporter Alex Rogers asked a bartender for his favourite drink in town. One recommendation led to another. By the sixth bar, he’d uncovered the true spirit of Washingtonian hospitality

Hotelier and artistic director Eiesha Bharti Pasricha on making Christmas meaningful

Merlin Labron-Johnson, the Michelin-starred chef who bakes gifts

Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: ‘I’ve been called here for a purpose’

The executive on the ‘hideous’ implementation of the 2022 Chips Act, his new role heading up a Christian AI platform — and why quantum could upend computing

Germany’s Schumpeterian pains