Southern Season Specialty Foods & Gift Baskets Southern Season — originally launched as A Southern Season — was founded in 1975 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and grew into one of the South's best-known specialty-food destinations. For decades the Chapel Hill flagship operated as a sprawling gourmet emporium of …

A Taste of the South Pecans, Candy & Gift Tins A Taste of the South was a family-owned Columbia, South Carolina confectioner that built its identity around Southern sweets — most notably chocolate-covered pecans — sold as candies, gift tins, and gift baskets. As of a 2019 profile in the local press, the business was …