Holiday Gift Guide 2011: one of the city’s most offal books

While it might be easier to just wait two hours for a meal at The Black Hoof, we suggest getting a foodie friend something useful for the holidays, like Odd Bits, a cookbook that lays out the intricacies of at-home snout-to-tail cookery. We look forward to tongue sandwiches and pig heart (left atrium only, please) tacos all next year. Click here to see 18 other presents we picked out for the at-home butcher, baker and boozer »

Available at Good Egg (267 Augusta Ave., 416-593-4663).