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Chef’s Surprise

Treat your foodie friends to a Teuscher chef box filled with your choice of a Teuscher’s truffle. Swiss chocolatier Teuscher is best known for its champagne truffles, but there is a large assortment of other truffles from which to choose. Pick one to fill the small chef box or two for the large box.

Small Teuscher chef box, $6.95, and large box, $10.95, from Teuscher Chocolates of Switzerland & Cafe, 9548 Brighton Way, Beverly Hills, (310) 276-2776 and 1089 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, (949) 721-1801.

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Leg Salad

Get them talking at your next party by placing these salad servers on the buffet table. The 12-inch servers are handcrafted of finished hard maple and made by Pasadena wood sculptor Don Morey.

Sexy Salad Servers, $30, from Yuzu, 1043 E. Green St., Pasadena, (626) 583-8707 and Bella Cosa, 250 Harvard Ave., Claremont, (909) 626-2303.

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Donna Deane