Bermuda, gift buying can often be a dilemma. With exchange impossible, size must be spot on, and of course, individual tastes do vary. So if even the slightest bit uncertain, gifts of food and drink are among your surest choices for the holidays; they always fit, are seldom returned, and are usually in good taste. Following is a list of ideas as suggested by the Associated Press . Twelve months of pasta -- 56 pounds of it -- awaits the recipient member of the Pasta-of-the-Month Club ($149), an offering from La Pace Imports. The first basket contains 12 one-pound packages of La Molisana pastas, Real Torino breadsticks, La Molisana tomato sauce, and a copy of The Pasta Book . After that, the club member gets 4 pounds of imported Italian pasta each month. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 44-PASTA. Rising Moon of Oregon offers some interesting variations on the sauce theme for your pastas -- ginger orange sunflower, for one, or something called Belly Dance, with 25 ingredients. There are sauces with nuts, and traditional marinaras with extra kick. The Nut Sauce Sampler is $13; Marinara Box , $25; a nine-sauce Celebrate Diversity Sampler , $37. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 766-6679. -- For designer foodies on a budget, the Fancy Food Gourmet Club offers home delivery and below-retail prices. A gift sampler of 3 ounces of Russian caviar -- beluga, ossetra, and sevruga -- is $64. A whole (21 -3 pounds) Norwegian salmon is $49.50. For catalog and orders, call 1 (880) 576-3548. From the Great Southern Sauce Company come all sorts of barbecue sauces, marinades, cooking sauces and salsas. A BBQ Belt gift box of barbecue condiments, with cooking tongs, is $49.95. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 437-2823. -- A Seabear Exclusively Yours smoked salmon ($249.95 plus shipping and handling) is a King (Chinook) salmon from Pacific Northwest waters, noted for its robust flavor and delicate texture. Allow two weeks for for overnight, ice-pack delivery. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 645-3474. -- A holiday gift sampler from Le Pique-Nique ($25 plus shipping and handling) includes one pound each of chicken and turkey sausage with cranberries and fresh orange, chicken and turkey sausage with sundried tomatoes and fresh basil, pork andouille, and fines herbes sausage. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 400-6454. -- The muffin mavens on your list will respond to gift packages from Suzanne's Muffins . To sample some of the 20 flavors available choose a 6 Muffin Holiday Selection ($29.95, including FedEx delivery) or a 12 Muffin Holiday Selection ($49.95, also with FedEx delivery). For orders or information, call 1 (880) 742-2403. -- Panforte di Mendocino is the most popular item available from Cafe Beaujolais , according to proprietor Margaret S. Fox. A resurrection of a treat dating back to the Middle Ages, the spicy, chewy Italian nut confection makes an interesting change from other sweets. A 22-ounce wheel of either almond or hazelnut panforte is $22.95, and a combo of an 11-ounce quarter of each is $23.95, plus shipping. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 930-0443. -- Giant fortune cookies with personalized messages are available from Good Fortunes by the Wish List. They're 6 inches wide and 5 inches high, come dipped in chocolate and a variety of toppings.

You dictate the message, and it will be placed inside the cookie.

9 Unique gifts $18.50 to $24.50. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 644-9474. -- Dark horses may be too late for the election season but just in time for the holidays: Dark Horse Chocolates from Harbor Sweets are a clever gift for the equestrians of your acquaintance. Sold in tack shops across the country, each oval chocolate has a molded equestrian design. A gift pack available directly is Dark Horse Chocolates in a Hunter's Mug -- 12 pieces presented in a gold-rimmed ceramic mug ($24.50). For orders or information, call 1 (880) 243-2115. -- Swear off tobacco the chocolate way, with a presentation of cigar-shaped truffles in assorted flavors from Fran's. Called Fixations, they come in $12 or $27 folders or $30 boxes. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 422-3726. -- The Grande Tartan Christmas Ballotin from Godiva (1 -pound to 2-pound sizes, at $10 to $62) has an assortment of milk, dark and ivory chocolates, tied up with a tartan ribbon. The company's winter collection -- including the Godiva Coin Bag ($7) -- is certified kosher and appropriate for Hanukkah. For orders or information, call 1 (880) 9-GODIVA. -- Wine-complete fetes are offered by Virtual Vineyards, the Internet retailer of specialty foods and fine wines. Among the treats is Pasta and Partners ($59.95 plus shipping), with seven different sizes and shapes of Gerardo di Nola pasta and San Marzano peeled plum tomatoes, both imported from Naples, matched with Da Vero Dry Creek Valley olive oil and a 375 ml bottle of Le Mistral, a red Rhone-style wine from Joseph Phelps. (The company cautions that it orders wines from small vineyards in small quantities, so another wine may be substituted.) For orders or information online, it's www.virtualvin.com, or call 1 (880) 289-1275. -- A limited edition of Pernod with Pablo Picasso art labels is available for $20 for connoisseurs of both art and this classic French aperitif. It's sort of a returned compliment, since the artist included representations of the liqueur in at least two of his paintings. Each painting, "Bottle of Pernod and glass'' and "Poster landscape'' will be imprinted on the back of a bottle of Pernod, along with a silk-screened Picasso signature. -- An outdoor picnic, whether on the ski slopes or on southern grass, will be enhanced with Krug in the Open Air ($225), a kit offered by the champagne maker. It includes a red wool plaid blanket; a thermal container which keeps the wine cool; four crystal flutes designed to be placed onto sand, grass, or even snow; and a bottle of Krug's Grand Cuvee.

Everything rolls up and is secured by leather straps for transport. -- The Lalique Bacchus Flute Set from Dom Perignon ($700) is for indoor celebrations.

It includes two fluted toasting glasses featuring mythology designs from the famed French crystal maker, along with a bottle of Dom Perignon. For those going all out, there is La Celebration ($1,400), with the bottle accompanied by a sterling silver noisemaker horn from Tiffany & Co., both set in a green presentation box. -- A limited quantity of Richard Hennessey cognac, a melange of over 100 vintage cognacs, will be available -- expensively -- for the holiday trade. At $1,500, it's presented in a hand-made crystal decanter from Royal Cristallerie de Saint Louis, wearing an engraved silver collar and lined with pure glass to protect the cognac. It has a matching crystal stopper and numbered brochure and is presented in a satin-lined case. For orders or information, call 1 (880) BE THERE.