Holiday Gift Box

A Southern Holiday, Boxed Up and Ready to Give

Some gifts get tucked in a closet. This one gets opened at the kitchen counter and gone by New Year's. We put together five of our favorite small-batch Southern treats, some salty and some sweet. It's a box made for sharing, for sneaking, and for anyone who's hard to shop for.

What's Inside

• Southern Straws Handmade Cheese Straws: This is where it all started for us. We use real cheese and real butter, and a one-of-a-kind mold presses each straw flat and crispy. Fifteen years later, we still make them exactly the same way.
• Dewey's Bakery Meyer Lemon Thin Cookies: Dewey's has been baking in Winston-Salem, NC since 1930, and this cookie has been a fan favorite since 1960. It's paper thin and crisp, made with real lemon zest and cold-pressed Meyer lemon oil. It might be the best lemon cookie you've ever had.
• Butterfields Peach Buds: You just can't find hard candy like this anymore. These little peach candies are made in North Carolina from a recipe that's nearly 100 years old. Small, delicate, and a little nostalgic.
• Grand Provisions Butter Toffee Pretzels: Crunchy pretzels covered in buttery toffee. It's a sweet-and-salty twist on a classic, and it's the combo that hooked us this season.
• Poppy Popcorn Asheville Mix: The #1 flavor from Asheville's favorite handcrafted popcorn maker. It mixes buttery salted caramel with sharp white cheddar, so every handful is a little sweet and a little savory.

It's ready to give as-is for hostesses, coworkers, clients, neighbors, or a stocking that needs some help. Or just keep it for yourself. We won't tell.