Popular occasions for giving a book full of favorite recipes are wedding showers or housewarming parties.
They make a good present for most anyone, but are especially appropriate as wedding or housewarming gifts since people can use them to help finance their remodeling projects.
You'll find Jewish categories and Jewish-themed categories within general categories like birthday, housewarming and love.
Another fun idea is to give a towel origami creation as a gift for a wedding, housewarming, or baby shower.
For that matter, towels in general are hardly common gifts to give unless they're for a specific occasion, such as a housewarming or perhaps to congratulate someone on the culmination of a bathroom or kitchen remodeling project.