Dorm room dinners will never be the same. Lékué may be hard to pronounce, but its versatile steamer cases make it easy to create entire meals in the microwave – and healthy ones to boot. This 22-ounce, BPA-free silcone case also comes with a cookbook to help that college student on your list become the chef de cuisine of the dormitory. That is, if you can get him to buy fresh vegetables. You’re on your own with that one. $30. Sur La Table – Plaza Frontenac, 295 Frontenac Forest St., 314.993.0566, surlatable.com And now… 
Spruce up your meal with the decedent French Tower from Vom Fass. We’re giving away this stack of oils and vinegars featuring the flavors of France, along with a recipe for hazelnut duck confit. Click here to enter!
This article appears in December 2013.