One holiday option for someone who has everything is the gift of food. The memory of a delicious morsel can last a lifetime — and it does not take up shelf space.

La Maison du Chocolat (30 Rockefeller Plaza. at 49th Street, 212-265-9404) offers refined confections ranging from $8 dacquoises and $9 chocolate bars to a $300 “Wonder of Chocolate Hat Box.” People enamored of chocolates named for ballets (“Sylvie”), operas (“Rigoletto” Lait), Roman gods (Bacchus), and the last princesses of royal European dynasties (Anastasia) might be appropriate recipients for these gifts — and so are chocolate lovers. The chocolate boutique is offering free delivery throughout America for orders of more than $50 that are placed by tomorrow.

Payard Patisserie (1032 Lexington Ave., between 73rd and 74th streets, 212-717-5252) has a kosher collection, including $24 flourless cakes and truffles, and chocolates starting at $25. Non-kosher chocolates, tarts, petits-fours, pastries, and more are available, too.

For loved ones with a taste for luxury but not for sweets, there is always caviar. For that really special someone, “Six Months of Caviar” ($1,695) from Petrossian (911 Seventh Ave., between 57th and 58th streets, 212-245-2217) provides a different 50-gram tin in January, March, May, July, September, and October. But more modest gifts are available, too, from the $415 American sampler, to a $60 250-gram tin of trout roe, which some connoisseurs consider the most underrated of fish eggs.

Gifts with less pretense but gallons of crunchy fun come from Garrett Popcorn Shops (560 Fifth Ave. at 46th Street, and 242 W. 34th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues), a longtime Chicago favorite that has been in New York for about a year. The classic gift is a tin — ranging in size from 1 gallon ($28) to 6.5 gallons ($131) — of CaramelCrisp combined with CheeseCorn — a salty, sweet, and addictive snack. Order online at garretpopcorn.com.

One Girl Cookies (68 Dean St. at Smith Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, 212-675-4996) has special holiday collections, from a $28 cookie assortment to a $115 “Make Them Merry” box stuffed with sandwich cookies, whoopee pies, marshmallows, and more. Order online at onegirlcookies.com.

Chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, citrus shortbread, and snickerdoodles are for sale through cookiesforkidscancer.com. They cost $30 per dozen, and the proceeds go to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to help fund a treatment, currently under development, for neuroblastoma, a cancer of nervous tissue that often begins in early childhood.

In addition, chefs throughout New York have donated their services for an auction for the same cause that is being run through the Web site charityfolks.com/bandofparents. Treats available for auction include snickerdoodles baked by the pastry chef at Le Bernardin, Michael Laiskonis; pine nut macaroons by the pastry chef at Babbo, Gina DePalma; several dozen assorted mini-cookies by the pastry chef at Jean Georges, Johnny Iuzzini, and almond pine nut cookies by Marc Aumont of the Modern. Alice’s Tea Cup, Blue Fin, Blue Smoke, Craft, Dos Caminos, Gotham Bar & Grill, Payard, P*ong, the Little Owl, Town, and Tumbador Chocolate are also participating.

Mr. Thorn is food editor of Nation’s Restaurant News. He maintains nrnfoodwriter.blogspot.com.