The Petit Chef collection by the French brand Opinel is ideal for teaching children how to cook safely. This set includes a finger guard, a peeler and a kitchen knife with a rounded tip, plus an educational ring to help position the fingers and prevent the hand from slipping onto the blade. Both the knife and the peeler have stainless steel blades. Impart a love of cooking to your children at a young age. It's as important as math and languages! It's a benefit that they'll enjoy throughout their lives. 

Does your sister like getting together with friends for happy hour? Does your husband or father like to play Mr. Cocktail? Give them an assortment of Bonne Maman Intense jams and print out this recipe file: four intense fruity cocktails to discover. One of them might just become your signature New Year's Eve drink - before the midnight bubbly! We've even added an intense martini for your New Year's brunch.

If you've never tried Alain Ducasse's chocolates, you haven't attained nirvana. Once you've tasted them, you'll be able to recognize them out of a thousand. Like their creator, they have real character under a suave exterior. It comes through in the textures and shapes, boldness and creativity.

To celebrate Christmas in fitting style, Alain Ducasse and his master chocolatier and roaster Alain Berger are offering a truly unique and quirky Christmas tree (see photo above). This is a 100% chocolate tree that you assemble yourself, making the concept all the more fun. There are 6 chocolate discs adorned with organic cereals and dried fruits, a nod to the traditional "mendiant," that you assemble on a chocolate trunk. You can get this whimsical tree directly from the Manufacture de chocolat Alain Ducasse, 11 rue de la Roquette, Paris, or online.

Like every year, the Christmas collection is renewed. Graphic-looking animals lend their features to creations in dark and milk chocolate, sometimes garnished with pralines and ganaches. Fly into this wonderful world with Le Hibou generously filled with hazelnut praline. For the Christmas Box, the chef has specially created 30 recipes for pralines and ganaches with tasty and surprising ingredients: rosemary, pine nuts, lime blossom, saffron...