Between the Bread

What to get the woman who loves sandwiches? Just ask my childhood friend Tiffany and her husband David, who dropped off an early wedding gift when they passed through San Francisco this weekend.

Yes, those are sandwich-shaped salt and pepper shakers, but that's just the icing on the cake butter on the bread. A talented seamstress, Tiffany fashioned adorable owl-motif napkins and a matching picnic blanket with a sturdy plaid flannel underside. She wrapped the handiwork in a colorful picnic basket, along with melamine plates, sporks, plastic tumblers, and a card game called Slamwich that comes packaged in a lunchbox.

To top it all off, she added the salt and pepper shakers and a can of Slap Ya Mama hot sauce, from her family's hometown of Ville Platte, Louisiana.

Isn't that just the sweetest? Lest you think that this is just a gift for me and not my future husband, you should know that we did have a very impassioned conversation about sandwich construction on one of our first dates. He likes sandwiches as much as I do; why do you think we're getting married?