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Every year I post holiday gift idea guides (check out past years here) but I like to feature small, independent brands so you can discover some cool ideas you might not have thought of on your own. This year I’m featuring BIPOC owned brands, woman-owned brands, ethical and sustainable brands, and artists in my gift guides. I don’t have to tell you how much small businesses need our support this year, so I hope getting all these guides about before Shop Small Saturday will give you time to shop early, and — of course! — shop small.

taylor augustin dec 4, 2020 We all know a foodie—that person who loves to eat great food, and get messy in the kitchen. So, what do we get them for the holidays? We've got the answer. Below is our perfectly curated gift guide, with products including snacks, ice cream, chocolates, cookies and more (so that they don't have to spend hours in the kitchen.) Interested to find out what they are? Keep reading for our roundup of gifts to get for the foodie in your life this holiday season: Maya's Cookies Classic Holiday Tin: $45 Love supporting small businesses? Maya's Cookies, based in sunny San Diego, California, needs to be...

Maya Madsen: Maya’s Cookies   November 25, 2020 Posted by Becca Fink By Annya Apodaca ’22, Priscila Cano ’23, Abby Cota ’22, Valentina Gutierrez ’22, and Valentina Parra ’23 Are you looking for the perfect holiday gift this season? Maya Madsen’s delightfully delicious cookies are the sweetest choice. “Cookies make people happy,” Maya says with a warm smile, explaining her journey to getting her company, Maya’s Cookies, to its current success. Through the trials and tribulations of being a Black woman with a small business and opening her first store during a pandemic, Maya talks about accomplishing her dreams through her...

By PAM KRAGEN NOV. 22, 2020 5 AM Every holiday season, Maya Madsen looks forward to a Christmas ornament party at one of her girlfriends’ homes, where everyone brings their own home-baked treats to share. The Scripps Ranch mother of three is among millions of Americans who love baking cookies during the holidays and exchanging them with friends to double, triple or even quintuple the variety of treats in their family’s cookie jar. But these days, getting a group of friends together to hand-pick sweets from each others’ tins could become a super-spreader event. So Madsen offered some tips on how...