PickyJaz wrote:

> While placing my order for just five things I'm out of, I thought about
> a soon to be family member that's a learning chef. He's recently moved
> into his own place and often runs to prospective mother-in-law to
> snatch bits of spicesseasonings/herbs for his infrequent home cooking.
> I checked out all of the gift packs. and saw the pack-it-yourself boxes
> designed to hold eight 1/2 cup bottles offered. So I started a list
> that could somewhat give him all of the kitchen basics, instead of too
> much that he would not care about. While doing this I decided the 1/4
> cup sizes would be best for two reasons: he could retain best
> freshness by the smaller sizes needing replacement more often, and I
> could also gift-pack two per one for a wider selection, instead of just
> the eight half-cuppers per the two boxes I'll pack myself.
>
> What fun!

I did the same thing for a newly divorced woman who moved out without
any of her kitchen things. I felt like she wouldn't be cooking so much
that it warranted the larger sizes, yet might want and need a decent
assortment of spices at hand. It was a lot of fun to shop the catalog
and pick all the spices out.