Today is the best day of the year! That is, if you’re a mac & cheese enthusiast. Happy national mac & cheese day to pasta and cheese lovers alike. If you love cheese and comfort food, odds are this day is important to you. Although the definite origin of macaroni and cheese is not known, the first known written recipe for this dish is from thirteenth century southern Italy and eventually made it’s cheesy way into the United States, and according to the cheesesociety.org, mac & cheese currently remains the number one cheese recipe in the United States. By now you’re probably wondering what is the best way to celebrate this monumental national holiday?! Well, obviously by eating mac & cheese – but if you’re not already planning how to celebrate the day for yourself, how about gifting the ones you love in your life the great gift of mac & cheese.

One gift set even a mac & cheese hater won’t be able to love is the Harry & David Southern Living Macaroni and Cheese Gift set. This gift set includesa stainless-steel colander with white truffle butter, white cheddar and pepper jack cheese, and tri-color seashell pasta. It also includes a special recipe developed especially for Harry & David by Southern Living to make this fabulous dish a breeze to prepare. you can also include a bottle of wine with the gift set, because, wine & cheese, need we say more?

For the authentic cheese lovers in the U.S., there is also the gift set from Thoughtfully which includes a skillet shaped like the mac & cheese loving land of the free for whatever mac and cheese dishes your heart desires. It also includes authentic elbow pasta and spice blends to add to your mac & cheese dish for that extra hearty mac & cheese flavor you deserve.

A perfect gift set for the mac & cheese loves who have a taste for the finer things in life, has to be the Truffle Decadence Pasta Recipe gift set by Olivelle. This gift sets include black truffle oil, black truffle sea salt, handcrafted Italian Pasta and pasta rocks which include natural minerals to add extra flavor to your mac & cheese with a gorgeous gift wrap to complete your gift.